Job Description

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.

As the Associate Director, Clinical Quality Analytics, you will develop and deliver analyses of clinical trial and clinical trial quality (audits and inspections) data to provide insights on the quality of BMS’s innovative pipeline. You will partner closely with clinical compliance, quality & risk management, and process owners to ensure effective measures and analytics are in place and leveraged to enable a data driven approach to trial quality management.

You will carry out data analytics for GCP quality to ensure a data driven approach is consistently applied to monitoring quality and compliance of business processes supporting trial operations

You will execute against the clinical quality analytics plan(s), both near and long term. You know how to analyze data to derive meaningful insights. You participate in sharing objective performance and analytic results at relevant cross functional or within functional leadership quality reviews. You will be a trusted partner enabling data driven decisions for clinical compliance and GCP quality and risk management. If you are passionate about the intersection of metric & data analytics, we look forward to meeting you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform diagnostic, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics to identify performance trends, root cause assessments and identify areas of continuous improvement

• Help define innovative trending and modelling techniques to analyse data, build insights and help drive innovative process improvements

• Assist in creation of new mechanisms to monitor for quality signals using outputs from analytics, including descriptive analytics such as those from Tableau or Spotfire, and advanced analytics including signal detection, natural language processing, machine learning, and time-series analysis

• Apply analytical/statistical methods to complex and disparate data sources

• Develop and enhance clinical quality monitoring analysis tools, ensuring they meet key stakeholder needs

• Partner to Implement analytic strategies and roadmap to optimally enable clinical quality and compliance and risk assessments

• Partner to drive insights, with a focus on quality metrics at global and regional levels, evaluating performance relative to industry peers and thresholds for action

• Actively participate in quality management initiatives, councils or reviews to deliver data driven insights and share key quality indicators that will predict risk or potential outcomes

• Help enable monthly, quarterly analytic reviews and deliver high-value analyses of trial quality according to needs of strategic and operational leaders

• Partner to ensure appropriate and timely development of predictive models of GCP quality, compliance and risk given needs of team leads in associated areas and data maturity

• Partner with team colleagues to proactively network and liaise with cross functional business stakeholders to identify, contextualize and deliver high value analytics and insights, while ensuring objectivity and consistency across the enterprise

• Participate in relevant strategic initiatives and process improvement initiatives to bring an explicit quality measurement framework to the performance of clinical trials

• Take part in annual clinical quality benchmarking programs

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelors degree, preferably in a STEM field (e.g. Computer Science, other quantitative Sciences, Information/Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics).

• Experience with building data science and data engineering solutions to clinical/quality related datasets is preferred

• At least 5 years’ experience in data analytics, preferably in the pharmaceutical, medical devices, healthcare or related industry but other industry experience is also relevant

• Experience in clinical operations or quality-related functions, or analytical functions is preferred

• Demonstrated ability to use data to drive decisions and answer key business questions

Competencies: – knowledge, skills, abilities, other:

• Demonstrated ability to independently evaluate and draw insights

• Understanding of the application of advanced analytics, including predictive analytic modeling approaches related to structured and unstructured data is ideal

• Excellence in meeting facilitation and in both written and oral communication

• Demonstrated ability to build relationships (both virtual and in person) with senior stakeholders and peers, including ability to negotiate and manage stakeholder engagement

• Have attention to detail, be highly organized and able to balance multiple tasks

• Have strong oral and written communication skills

• Have the ability to work individually and as part of a team

Software that must be used independently and without assistance

• Advanced analytic software or methodologies is a plus (SAS, data mining, visualization tools/techniques, Tableau, Spotfire, etc.)

• Programming experience in a modern data science language (Python or R, and SQL)

• Experience with building data science and data engineering solutions strongly preferred.

• Be proficient with Microsoft Office, Word, Excel (advanced proficiency) and Power Point

BMS Behaviors Required

• Passion, Innovation, Accountability, Urgency, Integrity, inclusion

Why You Should Apply

Around the world, we are passionate about making an impact on the lives of patients with serious diseases. Empowered to apply our individual talents and diverse perspectives in an inclusive culture, our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.

Around the world, we are passionate about making an impact on the lives of patients with serious diseases. Empowered to apply our individual talents and diverse perspectives in an inclusive culture, our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. 

Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is an essential job function of this role which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and enhances the Company culture.

To protect the safety of our workforce, customers, patients and communities, the policy of the Company requires all employees and workers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless they have received an exception based on an approved request for a medical or religious reasonable accommodation.  Therefore, all BMS applicants seeking a role located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico must confirm that they have already received or are willing to receive the full COVID-19 vaccination by their start date as a qualification of the role and condition of employment.  This requirement is subject to state and local law restrictions and may not be applicable to employees working in certain jurisdictions such as Montana. This requirement is also subject to discussions with collective bargaining representatives in the U.S.

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