Senior Corporate Counsel, Drug Development

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Position Summary:

The Senior Corporate Counsel, DD Law role will have the opportunity to join the dynamic DD Law team at BMS. The DD Law team provides critical support and partnership to the global Drug Development organization, helping to deliver on our mission to develop and deliver more medicines to more patients faster. This individual will join an expert team of global Drug Development lawyers and will be charged with serving as a substantive leader for complex escalations and advising on novel approaches to accelerate development.

This individual should bring pharmaceutical legal experience with the ability to learn quickly, exercise excellent judgement, navigate complexity and be able to work with urgency and creativity across time zones, regulatory regimes, and senior stakeholders to advise on the successful resolution of legal and business issues and enable speed of getting medicines to patients who cannot wait. Excellent legal judgement and the ability to clearly communicate on complex topics with senior business stakeholders is critical to success in this role.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the lead legal advisor to Senior Vice Presidents reporting into the Executive Vice President, Head of Drug Development, and join their senior leadership teams, advising on complex issues that arise during the course of global drug development. Potential business clients to be supported include, SVP, Head of Global Development Operations, SVP Head of Global Regulatory Sciences, and SVP Head of Worldwide Patient Safety.
• Collaborate with Drug Development legal team to develop and advance innovative approaches to accelerate drug development transactions, including automation.
• Advise senior leaders on Drug Development initiatives that evolve internal and external stakeholder ways of working and improve the speed, accuracy and quality of drug development and ultimately speed of life-saving medacines to patients.
• Work closely with Law Department colleagues to bring seamless legal support to Drug Development and provide DD legal guidance across the Law Department.

​Qualifications:

• Legal degree with 12 or more years of pharmaceutical legal experience. Helpful experience includes law firm, in-house and/ or government work experience. Experience working in the R&D space is helpful, but not required.
• Demonstrated ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues and advise and influence senior executives, including SVP or C-suite stakeholders, on high-impact legal and regulatory matters.
• Proven history of identifying and leading senior stakeholders and colleagues to implement innovative solutions to reduce waste, increase efficiency and improve management of legal risks.
• Demonstrated ability to lead across large, global matrix organizations and influence senior leaders and colleagues across multiple functions to efficiently resolve complex issues.
• Ability to independently prioritize and manage multiple projects.
• Flexibility to work with speed and quality on a broad range of matters.
• Ability to communicate complex issues clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing to senior leaders.
• Excellent judgement, time management, and cross functional collaboration skills required.
• Licensed to practice in the U.S.

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Compensation Overview:

Princeton - NJ - US: $255,260 - $309,309 


The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee’s work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.

Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.

Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect and may include the following: Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care. Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP). Financial well-being resources and a 401(K). Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection and survivor support. Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown Days between Christmas and New Year’s holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility. Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave. Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources. Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.

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