Director – Regional Medical Lead - Solid Tumors

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

Position Summary

The Regional Medical Lead (RML) is a critical leadership role ensuring and enhancing collaboration and partnership between WW Medical, R&D and our countries/regions across the globe.  RML is both a liaison and a catalyst working with WW and the markets to drive alignment with a cohesive focus to deliver globally on our assets, disease, and medical strategies and objectives. The incumbent will leverage capabilities and expertise to drive business objectives, resolve business matters, and optimize opportunities.

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead Global & Local (G&L) strategic integration by representing non‑core market needs, translating global direction into actionable regional plans, and ensuring country insights meaningfully shape AIMS and Global Medical strategies.
• Partner closely with MPLs and global cross functional working groups to ensure AIMS deliverables and disease area priorities are consistently executed across markets.
• Serve as the central liaison between WW Medical and Medical Leadership in markets and business leaders in the region ensuring aligned communication, coordinated execution, and timely escalation of needs, risks, and strategic priorities.
• Lead visibility and prioritization of market level evidence gaps as a key driver of Evidence Generation, guiding markets through NIR and IEP related processes, informing Integrated Evidence Plans (IEP), and steering regional discussions to ensure local evidence needs are fully reflected in medical plans.
• Identify opportunities for collaborative studies and engage with innovative platforms, engaging WW Medical, MEG, Scientific Collaborations & Alliances, Digital Health, and other stakeholders to expand evidence generation impact.
• Drive cross market scientific collaboration by connecting local teams with WW Medical, facilitating best practice sharing, harmonizing implementation, and removing market roadblocks to enable seamless medical execution across regions.
• Understand and anticipate market and regional launch needs, synthesizing risks and opportunities, informing launch readiness governance, and resolving execution issues in partnership with global and local teams.
• Collaborate on lifecycle management strategies by identifying data gaps, informing prioritization, and ensuring market insights align with WW portfolio planning.
• Foster strong cross functional relationships (Medical Communications, Commercial & Access, FME, MEG, HEOR) to ensure cohesive medical strategy execution and consistent engagement with regional and global partners.
• Promote cross functional collaboration, inclusiveness, and budget accountability in partnership with medical and commercial stakeholders to optimize delivery of medical objectives across markets.

Qualifications & Experience 

• Advanced degree preferred (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MD); 10+ years of relevant bio-pharmaceutical industry experience; broad knowledge of TA preferred.

• Working knowledge of Research and Drug Development, including RWE, with the ability to communicate data impactfully.

• Experience in program and project management, including defining key deliverables, tracking milestones and budget, and informing business tradeoffs.

• Demonstrated success delivering results and leading strategically in a matrix environment and various business situations.

• Strong strategic mindset with analytical skills, with an understanding of global dynamics, environment, and key markets.

• Ability to influence across a matrix, with emotional intelligence, curiosity, and skills in proactively building and maintaining key relationships.

• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving and increasingly complex environment.

• Strong cross-cultural communication skills and the ability to adapt strategies to different audiences across multiple markets.

• Expectation to be 20-30% in the field/travel.

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Princeton - NJ - US: $207,490 - $251,433 


The starting pay range(s) listed above is for full-time employees (FTE). You may also be eligible for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities. We determine starting pay thoughtfully – carefully considering the nature of the role, required skills, work location, schedule and the knowledge and experience you bring. Final compensation is guided by pay equity principles and applicable employment laws. Compensation programs are reviewed on an ongoing basis and may be adjusted over time to reflect evolving market factors, and individual, team or Company performance.

Benefits:

Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, you may be eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefit plans – including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and insurance offerings (medical, dental, vision, life and disability).

U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off (FTO), which provides paid time off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, along with 11 paid company holidays each year.

Non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico receive 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires (subject to manager approval), 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.

Depending on eligibility, employees may also have access to additional time-off benefits, including paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs. Eligible employees also enjoy an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

U.S.-based job seekers can explore full benefit offerings athttps://careers.bms.com/benefits

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

Supporting People with Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

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