Vice President, Business Development, Search & Evaluation

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Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

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The ideal candidate will possess scientific expertise and business development leadership experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, across a spectrum of assets in early and late clinical development as well as experience with preclinical staged assets. The candidate will have the ability to think holistically across a broad spectrum of industry trends and issues in Bristol Myers Squibb core therapeutic areas of focus e.g. oncology, hematology, neuroscience, cardiovascular, immunology and cell therapy (HOCT and ICN).

A strong working understanding of the drug discovery and development process is required, as the candidate will lead a team that is responsible for searching, evaluating, and conducting due diligence on novel therapeutic opportunities, while supporting transactional activities. Within BMS, the candidate is required to have strong communication and interpersonal skills and work with multiple internal stakeholders to facilitate highly visible and time-sensitive business development projects.

Furthermore, the candidate will have strong managerial and talent development skills to foster the continuous growth of the search & evaluation team.

• Lead S&E efforts for BD opportunities in HOCT and ICN areas
• Manage the internal strategic prioritization of opportunities within business development with input from key stakeholders from research, development and commercial
• Manage and direct strategy of scientific diligence on priority active opportunities and challenge teams on key assumptions/takeaways as appropriate
• Oversee and direct talent allocation and prioritization of effort spent on various S&E priorities
• Keep up frequent strategic dialogue with key stakeholders in research, development and commercial, to anticipate evolving priorities
• Keep up to speed and influence enterprise/TA priorities based on input from external biotech ecosystem globally
• Manage scientific conference focus and team travel priorities to ensure enterprise “follows the data” and positions BD and enterprise to be tactically in a position to “win” in competitive BD processes
• Keep current on scientific / clinical data trends in biopharma in core therapeutic areas of focus and key adjacencies
• Closely interact and collaborate with SVP Business Development and other BD leadership to make sure information and priorities are shared in real time thereby facilitating work‑flow prioritization and escalation of key strategic opportunities
• Present and articulate merits, diligence findings related to strategic opportunities to C‑suite audience
• Serve as thought partner to key stakeholders in research, development and commercial bringing in scientific perspectives from the external environment and be able to lead cross‑functional teams
• Shape S&E focus strategy in close collaboration TA leadership, formulate external point of view on emerging mechanisms of action and new modalities, and develop concrete and tangible action plans to support execution of the strategy
• Demonstrate strong leadership and scientific rigor while collaborating closely with internal BD, R&D and Commercial stakeholders and potential external partners
• Develop talent within the…