Senior Director, Clinical Supply Team Lead (CSTL)

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The Senior Director, Clinical Supply Team Lead is a strategic and operational leader accountable for Therapeutic Area (TA) level operational strategy, performance, and end-to-end execution of clinical supply activities. This role owns TA-level prioritization, workload balancing, and performance management across the portfolio, ensuring alignment with CSC and GDO objectives.

The Clinical Supply Team Lead directs Clinical Supply Leads (CSL), Trial Supply Managers (TSMs), and other team members by balancing workload, resolving operational conflicts, and achieving operational excellence by driving execution and accountability. The leader partners closely with cross functional teams, including GDO, CMC, Regulatory, Quality, GLS, CSO, and Finance, to promote collaboration and strategic foresight as well as to anticipate demand, manage risk, allocate resources, and ensure alignment with clinical development priorities.

This role also serves as a key contributor to CSC’s digital, analytical, and continuous improvement agenda leveraging data, AI enabled insights, and standardized processes/playbooks to strengthen supply chain reliability, reduce risk, and improve speed for patients. This role also supports the development of future-ready talent within their assigned TA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide TA-level strategic direction and operational leadership across the portfolio, ensuring alignment with clinical development priorities.
• Facilitate regular strategic discussions with TA Leads and stakeholders to ensure alignment, rapidly resolve issues, anticipate resource swings, and share forward-looking insights.
• Serve as the TA’s primary point of coordination for new assets, new studies, and incoming work, ensuring rapid assessment, appropriate coordination, and structured assignment paths.
• Own and oversee TA-level capacity planning and workload balancing, including intra- and inter- TA resource alignment across CSLs, TSM, and supporting roles.
• Own and leverage Control Tower / CSSSA and TA-level performance data to monitor KPIs, anticipate demand, and drive performance improvement.
• Lead the intake process for all new requests (CMC, GDO, IRT, etc.), including chairing intake meetings and making CSL/TSM assignment decisions based on expertise, capacity, study prioritization, and other relevant managerial/operational factors.
• Act as first-line decision-maker for cross-study or cross-asset conflicts, study prioritization, escalation/acceleration handling, and trade-off alignment across the TA and between TAs, as needed.
• Anticipate risks and proactively intervene or escalate to avoid near misses, delays, or supply disruptions across the TA. Lead root cause analyses when misses, delays, or supply disruptions occur.
• Serve as the TA's senior representative during portfolio reviews, scenario planning, pipeline acceleration discussions, and integration activities (e.g., due diligence, new modalities).
• Contribute to improving CD&OP maturity by reinforcing consistent inputs, process discipline, and cross‑functional engagement. More tactically ensure the appropriate projects are being escalated up the CD&OP process to achieve rapid resolution.
• Own TA-level KPI frameworks, dashboards, and performance metrics to monitor execution, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement.
• Drive data-enabled decision-making, leveraging AI-enabled insights and validated data sets to guide operational improvements, assess resource allocations and inform timely, actionable future planning.
• Partner with other Clinical Supply Team Leads to ensure intra- and inter-TA harmonization, alignment, coordination, continuous improvement.
• Oversee TA-level compliance to GxP, Quality, and regulatory inspection expectations ensuring CSLs, TSMs, and other staff maintain timely and accurate data, forecasts, systems, and documentation.
• Provide direct line management, coaching, and development for assigned staff, and drive engagement and performance across TA teams.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, Engineering, Supply Chain, Life Sciences, or related field.
• 15+ years of clinical supply chain, clinical operations, technical operations, or related biopharmaceutical leadership experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in end‑to‑end clinical supply planning, investigational product management, and global study execution.
• Demonstrated strategic planning and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of effective executive communications, stakeholder management, and partner/customer engagement.
• Strong understanding of drug development, clinical operations, CMC, regulatory expectations, and GxP quality systems.
• Proven ability to lead matrixed teams, manage senior stakeholders, and influence without authority across global and cross-functional environments.
• Advanced analytical skills with experience using digital tools, dashboards, AI‑enabled insights, or supply chain performance data.
• Demonstrated success providing change leadership within dynamic, complex, fast-paced environments.
• Ability to recruit, select, coach, engage, and develop team members.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree (MBA, MS, PharmD, or related discipline).
• Experience leading or implementing large-scale process, digital, or organizational transformations.
• Prior leadership of global clinical supply teams
• Experience in portfolio-level planning, scenario modeling, or pipeline acceleration initiatives.
• Familiarity with enterprise digital platforms (IBP, Control Tower, Lighthouse, etc.).
• Excellent cross-functional negotiating and influencing skills.

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Compensation Overview:

Madison - Giralda - NJ - US: $221,970 - $268,974
Princeton - NJ - US: $221,970 - $268,974 


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 in effect at the time and may require enrollment. Our benefits include:

• Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.
• Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
• Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.

​Work-life benefits include:

Paid Time Off

• US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees)
• Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays

Based on eligibility*, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.

All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown.

*Eligibility Disclosure: The summer hours program is for United States (U.S.) office-based employees due to the unique nature of their work. Summer hours are generally not available for field sales and manufacturing operations and may also be limited for the capability centers. Employees in remote-by-design or lab-based roles may be eligible for summer hours, depending on the nature of their work, and should discuss eligibility with their manager. Employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement should consult that document to determine if they are eligible. Contractors, leased workers and other service providers are not eligible to participate in the program.

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