Scientific Director, Advanced Material Characterization (Material Science & Engineering)

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Drug Product Development (DPD)

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.

Job Description:

Material Science & Engineering (MSE) in Drug Product Development (DPD) plays an integral role in building and implanting material strategies throughout drug product development. The Scientific Director of the Advanced Material Characterization (AMC) group in MSE will be responsible for building, leading and developing a high-performing team accountable for advanced material characterization technologies to deliver technical solutions that enable deeper understanding of processes and product across the portfolio.  Accountability spans a modality agnostic portfolio from pre-clinical/FIH through life cycle management. To achieve MSE goals, the AMC scientific director will collaborate closely with interfaces at discovery, drug substance, analytical, drug product, regulatory, legal, and commercial manufacturing to align on project material strategy and ensure that material strategies are embedded in DS, DPI and DP processes. The candidate should have a broad pharmaceutical development experience and deep knowledge covering late discovery to post approval and product life cycle management. Supporting robust pharmaceutical products, this job requires having direct experience on DS process development and DP formulation designs, process impacts. The successful candidate will have a well-established track record of successful leadership, stakeholder management, development of people, strong technical background covering the multi-disciplinary areas of the function and be responsible for helping shape and execute MSE vision and objectives.

Key job responsibilities:

• Responsible for the direct management of multiple teams of material scientists and leaders to deliver on material strategy spanning the modality agnostic portfolio.  Ensuring throughout the process that compliance & EHS regulations and company policies & procedures are adhered to.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholder groups to apply advanced material characterization techniques, design and characterize conventional and advanced pharmaceutical materials, enrich the biophysical techniques for biologics and other non-small molecule pharmaceutical materials, including generation of material knowledge and understanding to support material robustness targets.  Supports registration, validation, and launch and life cycle management.
• Provide guidance, as required, for material teams to ensure high performance and close alignment with the goals of BMS R&ED, GPS, and Commercial.
• Implement new technologies, systems, and ways of working to enhance productivity & position the organization to successfully deliver in the evolving environment to help the organization realize its development excellence aspirations
• Grow and develop talent within the organization. Provide scientific and strategic leadership oversight to maximize organizational impact and seek out challenging developmental experiences for scientists to learn and grow.
• Build and foster strong relationships with key stakeholder functions.  Ensure strategic a