Executive Director, HemOnc Medical Early Assets Differentiation and Pipeline (EDAP)

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Executive Director, HemOnc Medical Early Assets Differentiation and Pipeline (EDAP)

ROLE SUMMARY

Executive Director (ED), HemOnc Medical (EDAP)will lead a team to provide early and ongoing medical input across Hematology/Oncology Early Portfolios to drive clinical differentiation and maximize health outcomes, early clinical adoption and patient access across Hematology and Oncology Therapy areas. The goal of this function is to expand the clinical value and patient reach of the early portfolio assets.

This is a senior medical leadership role reporting to the VP, Medical Early Assets Innovation & Differentiation Strategy of and will be a member of their Leadership Team.

Location: New Jersey

Responsibilities:

Accountable for leading a team of senior medical affairs professionals focusing on BMS’ early pipeline that ensures optimal differentiation, access, and proof of concepts for our early pipeline – expanding the value of the early pipeline

• Responsible for shaping the early portfolio narrative and communicating its strategy internally and externally. Leverage knowledge of the medical landscape including a strong understanding of medical affairs strategies and tactics for early phase clinical assets.
• Inform and accelerate governance decisions on priority programs to ensure maximum transformational clinical value is captured via CDP and IEP.
• Make recommendation to research and clinical development teams on based external landscape and insights from scientific partnerships and external experts.
• Implement an integrated approach to differentiating drug therapies including enhancing the future value proposition to patients, HCPs, and payers worldwide.
• Build early scientific partnerships, councils and research collaborations at top centers of excellence for research and with patients when applicable
• Leverage an understanding of anticipated changes in Policy/Payor/Clinic models in US, and EU, Japan, Asia and LatAm, to guide development strategies.
• Represent medical perspective in business development.
• Understand the role of correlative assays and diagnostic platforms in determining treatments across diseases of interest and integrate this understanding into early program strategic approaches.
• Ensure that execution of a comprehensive medical communications plan (including publication planning) is integrated into priority asset plans.
• Identify and execute opportunities for medical affairs enabled signal generation for priority assets, leveraging internal organization as well as external trusted centers of excellence.
• Leverage novel approaches to integrating patient journey insights into early compound differentiation strategies.

In this role you will:

• Focus on early pipeline, namely assets in Phase 1 and Phase 2 signal seeking development.
• Maintain an ongoing dynamic prioritization of assets in partnership with discovery and early development teams to ensure efforts are invested in the most promising asset.
• Lead a team of senior medical affairs professionals to ensure the development and execution of strategies that drive clinical differentiation and ensure successful fit to clinic.
• Work across the Oncology Therapeutic Area (TA) (Hematology and Oncology) with tailored approaches to each market.
• Bring a patient lens and perspective to early development and ensure plans are reviewed with external stakeholders.
• Provide leadership in relation to biomarkers and CDx as well as potential clinical applicability/utility.
• Leverage an understanding of anticipated changes in Policy/Payor/Clinic models in US, and EU, Japan, Asia and LatAm, to guide strategies.
• Enhance the differentiated clinical value and leadership of our early portfolio by shaping the design and implementation of innovative biomarker, diagnostic test, diagnostic platform, software and big data solutions and strategic collaborations.
• Partner with the Oncology TA teams to align early pipeline strategies with TA strategies.
• Partner with a cross-­functional team to create to create a clear and compelling scientific story for portfolio and individual compounds.
• Oversee early pipeline strategy for medical congresses and pipeline scientific communication are tied to strategy for all congresses
• Partner in building internal and external communication strategies/tactics.
• Build and leverage a broad network of external expert relationships to inform insights and innovation.
• Identify potential collaborations (COEs) and drive non-TA specific scientific partnerships for early development.
• Perform diligence for to support BD&L efforts.
• Delivery on this mandate requires high­-level stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills delivered through indirect leadership/influencing behaviors within Medical and Cross­ Functional leadership.

Required qualifications and experiences:

• MD, PhD or PharmD
• 10+ years of diverse experience in development, clinical, medical, and commercial roles, focusing on Global or market-based Medical Affairs.
• Previous commercial launch experience, preferably at local country level.
• Previous disease specific experience (3-5 years).
• Prior experience in either Medical or Development preferred
• Previous commercial experience is preferred
• Business development experience preferred

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