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Description

The Associate Director executes the Competitive Intelligence (CI) vision and strategy in alignment with stakeholder priorities. This role works closely with Business Development matrix teams (including leaders and teams in Business Development, Corporate Strategy, Discovery Research, Clinical Development, Commercial, and Forecasting) to support decision makers in assessing external opportunities.

Core Activities:

• Assesses the competitive environment, including performing asset screens, aiding assessment of Business Development opportunities, and closely tracking emerging scientific data and financial disclosures to inform Business Development activities for BMS

• Develops and delivers analyses of Business Development activities, MOA landscapes and therapeutic modalities to enable objective assessments of external opportunities

• Analyzes industry investments and trends to elucidate potential opportunities and risks of new investments

• Empowers earlier awareness of emerging science through coverage of scientific meetings

• Gathers information and translates it into actionable insights and recommendations for key stakeholders

• Serves as a single point of contact for key client groups in customer-driven CI support model

• Works closely with indication-aligned CI colleagues to ensure consistent divisional representation of therapeutic advances to disparate decision makers

• Implements all elements of internal CI model based on consultative engagement with key stakeholders, leading internal intelligence networks, coordinating the communication of intelligence, managing external CI vendors/partners, and leveraging relevant internal IT tools and platforms

• Innovates within CI to help propel the group to “World Class” status (e.g., visualizations, interactive datasets, predictive analytics)

• Responds to ad hoc key business questions with expert analysis

Qualifications

• BA/BS required, MBA, PharmD, PhD or other advanced degree preferred

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience, with at least 2 in a corporate environment (biotech, pharmaceutical, banking or consulting)

• Technical knowledge in one or more BMS therapeutic areas and/or cell or gene therapy and direct experience working in these fields is preferred

• Intellectually nimble – applies superior analytical ability to quickly become well-versed in new areas

• Highly collaborative, and is able to lead and influence teams, including a broad array of domain area experts, across a matrix environment

• Able to think strategically

• Experience successfully supporting business decision making in a complex and dynamic corporate environment

• Demonstrated understanding of pharmaceutical development and commercialization process, as well as industry competitive dynamics, preferably through direct industry experience.

• Demonstrated ability to conduct competitive analyses and generate actionable recommendations

• Able to organize and distill key information to convey insights with written and oral communications

• Excellent project management skills

• Familiar with basic business software tools and environments (e.g., MS Office) and pharmaceutical CI data sources (e.g., Cortellis, commercially available clinical trial databases)

• Able to travel approximately 20% of time

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Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol
Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is a necessary job function of this role, which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and it enhances the Company culture.

COVID-19 Information
To protect the safety of our workforce, customers, patients and communities, the policy of the Company requires all employees and workers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless they have received an exception based on an approved request for a medical or religious reasonable accommodation. Therefore, all BMS applicants seeking a role located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico must confirm that they have already received or are willing to receive the full COVID-19 vaccination by their start date as a qualification of the role and condition of employment. This requirement is subject to state and local law restrictions and may not be applicable to employees working in certain jurisdictions such as Montana. This requirement is also subject to discussions with collective bargaining representatives in the U.S.

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