Senior Director, Worldwide Cell Therapy Autoimmune Medical Affairs, Neurology/LCM

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 Senior Director, Worldwide Cell Therapy Autoimmune Medical Affairs, Neurology/LCM, is a senior medical affairs leader within the Worldwide Cell Therapy Autoimmune Medical Affairs team. This individual will define and execute the global medical strategy for the application of cellular therapies across priority therapeutic areas, including Neurology, Autoimmune Cytopenias, and other LCM therapeutic areas. The role will advance scientific leadership, evidence generation, external engagement, medical education, and ecosystem readiness to support the development and future integration of cell therapy into clinical practice across these therapeutic areas.

The Senior Director will serve as a strategic partner for Clinical Development, Commercial, HEOR, Market Access, Regulatory, Field Medical, regional, and local medical teams, and external scientific experts. This leader will help translate emerging science into actionable medical strategy, shape multidisciplinary engagement across specialties, and ensure global-to-local alignment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development and execution of the worldwide medical affairs strategy for cellular therapies across Neurology, Autoimmune Cytopenias, and other LCM therapeutic areas, ensuring alignment with portfolio priorities, cross-functional strategy, and emerging clinical evidence.

• Serve as the global medical affairs lead for assigned therapeutic areas, translating disease-area strategy, scientific insights, and clinical development priorities into clear medical objectives, tactical plans, and measurable outcomes.

• Partner closely with Clinical Development, Translational Medicine, Regulatory, Commercial, HEOR, Market Access, Field Medical, regional medical teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders to support evidence generation, lifecycle planning, governance milestones, and indication readiness.

• Shape and lead external scientific engagement strategies with global thought leaders, multidisciplinary experts, professional societies, patient advocacy partners, and other stakeholders to generate insights and inform medical strategy.

• Advance the scientific understanding of cellular therapies in Neurology, Autoimmune Cytopenias, and other LCM therapeutic areas by leading medical education, congress strategy, scientific communications, advisory boards, and expert forums in a compliant manner.

• Drive global-to-local knowledge transfer by developing scientific narratives, lexicons, training resources, medical materials, and communication platforms that enable consistent, high-quality execution across regions and markets.

• Support indication and ecosystem readiness by identifying specialty-specific barriers to future adoption, referral pathways, multidisciplinary care needs, patient identification considerations, institutional capability gaps, and opportunities to improve clinical practice excellence.

• Collaborate with evidence generation and HEOR colleagues to define medical evidence needs, support investigator-sponsored research and collaborative research opportunities, and ensure insight generation informs scientific strategy and future planning.

• Monitor the evolving scientific, clinical, regulatory, competitive, and treatment landscape across assigned therapeutic areas and translate key developments into actionable implications for BMS strategy.

• Lead, coach, and develop direct report(s), fostering accountability, inclusion, scientific rigor, strategic thinking, and strong execution within the Worldwide Cell Therapy Autoimmune Medical Affairs team.

• Represent Worldwide Cell Therapy Autoimmune Medical Affairs in internal governance forums, matrix teams, leadership discussions, and external scientific settings with executive presence and strong enterprise leadership.

• Ensure all medical affairs activities are conducted in accordance with BMS policies, applicable laws and regulations, and the highest standards of scientific integrity, ethics, and compliance.

Qualifications & Experience

• Advanced scientific or medical degree required; MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, NP, PA, or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in medical affairs, clinical development, translational medicine, or related pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical function; experience in cell therapy, immunology, neurology, hematology, gastroenterology, or autoimmune disease strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute medical affairs strategy across complex therapeutic areas, preferably in a global or multi-regional role.

• Strong understanding of cellular therapy science, clinical development, evidence generation, treatment delivery models, and multidisciplinary care considerations; direct experience with CAR T or other advanced therapies preferred.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing strategic decisions across a matrixed organization without direct authority.

• People leadership experience, including coaching, development, performance management, and talent stewardship.

• Proven ability to engage external experts and translate scientific and clinical insights into strategy, education, evidence generation, and executional priorities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex scientific information into clear, balanced, and compelling narratives for internal and external audiences.

• Strong business acumen, strategic judgment, prioritization, and operational discipline, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.

• Demonstrated commitment to inclusion, integrity, accountability, scientific excellence, and patient-focused decision making.

• Ability to travel globally, as needed, up to approximately 30%.

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Compensation Overview:

Madison - Giralda - NJ - US: $229,380 - $277,956
Princeton - NJ - US: $229,380 - $277,956 


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 at https://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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