Bristol Myers Squibb

Senior Director, Clinical Supply Team Lead

Bristol Myers Squibb

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Princeton • New Jersey • United States

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Salary

💰 $221,970 - $268,974 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Provide strategic direction and operational leadership across all studies and assets (including integrations) within the TA, ensuring alignment with protocol needs, regulatory requirements, and organizational goals/priorities.
  • Facilitate regular strategic discussions with TA Leads and stakeholders to ensure alignment, rapidly resolve issues, anticipate resource swings, and share forward-looking insights.
  • Serve as the TA’s primary point of coordination for new assets, new studies, and incoming work, ensuring rapid assessment, appropriate coordination, and structured assignment paths.
  • Coordinate and oversee TA-level capacity planning, balancing SAL, TSM, and IPC workload across the portfolio and across CSC to avoid bottlenecks, mitigate risks, and ensure timely support.
  • Leverage Control Tower / E2E supply data and processes to anticipate workload shifts, demand spikes, resourcing needs, and performance trends, as well as take proactive steps to address CSC opportunities and mitigate risks.
  • Lead the intake process for all new requests (CMC, GDO, IRT, etc.), including chairing intake meetings and making SAL/TSM assignment decisions based on expertise, capacity, study prioritization, and other relevant managerial/operational factors.
  • Act as first-line decision-maker for cross-study or cross-asset conflicts, study prioritization, escalation/acceleration handling, and trade-off alignment across the TA and between TAs, as needed.
  • Anticipate risks and proactively intervene or escalate to avoid near misses, delays, or supply disruptions across the TA.
  • Lead root cause analyses when misses, delays, or supply disruptions occur.
  • Serve as the TA's senior representative during portfolio reviews, scenario planning, pipeline acceleration discussions, and integration activities (e.g., due diligence, new modalities).
  • Contribute to improving CD&OP maturity by reinforcing consistent inputs, process discipline, and cross‑functional engagement.
  • More tactically ensure the appropriate projects are being escalated up the CD&OP process to achieve rapid resolution.
  • Own creation, monitoring, analysis, reporting, and evolution of common CSC KPIs, leadership dashboards and performance metrics to identify and act upon emergent trends, bottlenecks, changed assumptions, changed scope, and other managerial signals.
  • Drive data-enabled decision-making, leveraging AI-enabled insights and validated data sets to guide operational improvements, assess resource allocations and inform timely, actionable future planning.
  • Partner with other TA Ops Leads to ensure intra- and inter-TA harmonization, alignment, coordination, continuous improvement.
  • Oversee TA-level compliance to GxP, Quality, and regulatory inspection expectations ensuring SALs, TSMs, and other staff maintain timely and accurate data, forecasts, systems, and documentation.
  • Provide guidance, coaching, accountability, and mentoring to SALs, TSMs, and other team member; build a future-ready skill portfolio across the TA (digital fluency, data analysis, strategic thinking).

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, Engineering, Supply Chain, Life Sciences, or related field.
  • 15+ years of clinical supply chain, clinical operations, technical operations, or related biopharmaceutical leadership experience.
  • Demonstrated expertise in end‑to‑end clinical supply planning, investigational product management, and global study execution.
  • Demonstrated strategic planning and leadership skills.
  • Knowledge of effective executive communications, stakeholder management, and partner/customer engagement.
  • Strong understanding of drug development, clinical operations, CMC, regulatory expectations, and GxP quality systems.
  • Proven ability to lead matrixed teams, manage senior stakeholders, and influence without authority across global and cross-functional environments.
  • Advanced analytical skills with experience using digital tools, dashboards, AI‑enabled insights, or supply chain performance data.
  • Demonstrated success providing change leadership within dynamic, complex, fast-paced environments.
  • Ability to recruit, select, coach, engage, and develop team members.
Benefits
  • Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.
  • Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
  • Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.
  • Work-life benefits include: Paid Time Off US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees) Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays Based on eligibility*, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
clinical supply chainclinical operationstechnical operationsend-to-end clinical supply planninginvestigational product managementglobal study executiondata analysisstrategic planningperformance metricscapacity planning
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder managementexecutive communicationsinfluence without authoritycoachingmentoringstrategic thinkingchange leadershipteam engagementproblem-solving