Associate Scientific Director, Integrated Technology & Engineering

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Business Unit Summary

Our Drug Product Development team is committed to CMC design, development, and commercialization of innovative drug products to improve patient lives. We leverage the best people, collaboration, and cutting-edge innovation to achieve this commitment. BMS’s internal engine of innovation includes unrivaled industry leading expertise in CMC development of small molecules, protein biotherapeutics, protein degraders, and other therapeutic modalities. We collaborate closely with our colleagues in R&D and Commercial to design our drug products. Here, you’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope.

Position Summary

In the Product Development organization at BMS, predictive sciences are central to enabling our “model first” strategy to accelerate development and enable bringing more medicines to patients faster. We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Associate Scientific Director to join the Integrated Technology and Engineering group in the Drug Product Development (DPD) organization. In this role, the individual will lead the development and application of predictive modeling approaches—from first-principles mechanistic models to hybrid, molecular, machine learning techniques to digital twins —across both small molecule and biologics modalities (including oral solid dosage forms, sterile products, antibody-drug conjugates, and other modalities) to support drug product development. The individual will serve as a key scientific leader to integrate modeling into process and formulation development workflows, enhancing process understanding, risk assessment, and reducing development and tech transfer timelines. This includes driving the use of molecular modeling approaches to support formulation design and development, enabling data-driven decisions early in the development lifecycle. This role will champion a “modeling-first” culture in the organization, collaborating with cross-functional teams both within the Drug Product Organization and partner functions to enable data-driven decisions. An ideal candidate brings a good balance of experience in formulation/process development for drug product development and expertise in building/implementing model-based tools/platforms to aid decisions in formulation/process development. This position will maintain accountability towards the modeling strategy and deliverables, and depending on candidate experience and organizational needs, may also include people management responsibilities.

The successful candidate thrives in a diverse team environment, driving inclusion by exemplifying the BMS Core Values, understanding the impact of privilege, creating space for underrepresented groups, and mitigating implicit bias. The individual works well with people from other disciplines and thrives in a multifunctional team environment. If you want an exciting and rewarding career that is meaningful and directly helps deliver lifesaving medicines to patients, consider joining our diverse team!

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive modeling strategy aligned with organizational goals for drug product development through internal and external partnerships.
• Provide technical mentorship and training, clearly communicating complex modeling approaches and outcomes to technical peers and senior leadership.
• Lead modeling efforts for oral solid dosage processes to predict critical product attributes, manufacturability, and scale-up performance, sterile drug product process modeling and device-related interactions (e.g. fluid dynamics in devices etc.).
• Leverage material attribute and molecular modeling approaches to inform formulation design and development, linking material attributes to produc