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Position: Senior Scientist Translational Early Program Lead

Location: Princeton (NJ), Summit (NJ), Cambridge (MA) or Brisbane (CA)

At Bristol Myers Squibb, we are inspired by a single vision – transforming patients’ lives through science. In oncology, hematology, immunology, and cardiovascular disease – and one of the most diverse and promising pipelines in the industry – each of our passionate colleagues contribute to innovations that drive meaningful change. We bring a human touch to every treatment we pioneer. Join us and make a difference.     

Position Summary

The Translational Early Program Lead will be part of the Immunology, and Cardiovascular (ICV) Thematic Research Center (TRC). Working in a cross functional team, the individual will be responsible for the development of the clinical biomarker strategy for early-stage drug development programs. This individual will also have matrixed responsibilities to guide research programs within the translational research laboratories and will act as the translational development ICF TRC representative in early development teams and assume primary responsibilities such as interacting with CROs and KOLs to support contracting, sample analysis, and data delivery and interpretation of biomarkers in clinical studies.  The ideal candidate must be a rigorous, detail-oriented scientist, with excellent record keeping and organizational skills. The candidate must also be a highly flexible, results oriented, self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced dynamic environment and have a background in applying various data analysis approaches.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for co-creating the timelines and activities associated with clinical biomarker data delivery such as biomarker and assay selection, contracting (with support from an operations group), sample analysis, interpretation, and report generation, as well as involvement in trial-specific biomarker deliverables (e.g., biomarker plan, protocol development, study reports).

• Work with internal translational research groups or CROs to develop and validate selected biomarker assays for clinical implementation.

• Help implement innovative translational activities in early clinical studies through direct interaction with clinical research physicians, statisticians, clinical operations, computational biologists, contract research organizations, academic experts, and internal translational scientists.

• Acts as a liaison between scientific and clinical project representatives to bridge the gap between discovery/translational research and clinical early development and enable back-translation from clinical studies to bench scientists.

• Aid in biomarker data delivery for clinical studies through working with relevant functions and CROs; supports development of SOWs and interfacing with CRO for execution of services

• Participate in evaluation of CROs for data analysis and delivery capabilities, as needed

• Identify and collaborate in disease or therapeutic area-specific academic/industry partnerships and consortia, with the goal of advancing scientific understanding of disease pathophysiology to enable early target and biomarker identification and validation and to generate stratification and precision medicine hypotheses

• Prepare and deliver internal and external presentations

• Support regulatory submissions and regulatory interactions as needed

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree

  • 7+ years of academic and / or biotechnology / pharmaceutical industry

OR

• Master’s Degree

  • 5+ years of academic and / or biotechnology / pharmaceutical industry