Senior Director, Cellular Analytical Development

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Title: Senior Director, Cellular Analytical Development

Location: Seattle, WA

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global Biopharma company committed to a single mission: to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines focused on helping millions of patients around the world in disease areas such as oncology, cardiovascular, autoimmune diseases.

Join us and make a difference.  We hire the best people and provide them with a work environment that places a premium on diversity, integrity, collaboration and personal development. Through a culture of inclusion, we create a better, more productive work environment. We believe that the diverse experiences and perspectives of all our employees help to drive innovation and transformative business results.

This critical Senior Director position will be responsible for growing the capabilities required to provide technical stewardship for analytical methods development that will be employed for clinical and commercial cell therapy pipeline programs.  As the head of this group will also cultivate and leverage multiple cross-functional business relationships to identify and execute creative solutions to organizational opportunities and challenges.

This role will report to the Head of the Cell Therapy Analytical Development (CTAD) within Cell therapy development & Operation (CTDO). The incumbent will be responsible for identifying the capabilities required and building out a diverse team focusing on providing technical stewardship for analytical methods required to support release and characterization for cell therapy products. This role will partner closely with colleagues in CTAD and CTDO ensure seamless transition of methods to enable clinical stage manufacturing to be scaled and installed for commercial supply. This position will be based in Seattle, WA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build a high performing team by developing and retaining talent, ensuring the development and implementation of training required to fully qualify staff for establishing and maintaining capable and controlled processes. Lead and develop a strong winning culture, fostering teamwork and commitment to excellence through transparent communication and staff engagement. 
• Partner closely with colleagues to develop, transfer and validate analytical methods in a clinical and commercial QC environment. This will initially involve working closely with peers in CTAD and global quality organization to move methods through difference phases of development and into commercialization, and ensure appropriate technical governance is established.
• Establish processes and capabilities to provide technical stewardship of methods to support broad cell therapy pipeline programs including establishing method performance monitoring capability and method troubleshooting/ out of conformance event resolution. This will involve partnering closely with internal testing functions, cell therapy process development teams, manufacturing and QC functions to establish processes to monitor test method performance and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build analytical technical expertise and capabilities required to drive life-cycle management technical agenda’s to support analytical characterization and comparability capabilities
• Champion the culture of quality and ensure that all activities and documentation comply with regulatory requirements. Understand and implement processes, controls, and methods that align with global Health Authority regulatory expectations. Drive operational excellence, flawless execution and continuous improvement.
• Representative of CTAD to define product