Director, Patient Safety Science Capabilities
Bristol Myers Squibb
August 13, 2026
Remote friendly (Madison, NJ)
United States
Medical Affairs
Position Summary
The Director, Patient Safety Science Capabilities is a strategic leader responsible for setting direction and developing scientific support teams, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver safety science support across therapeutic areas for signal detection, safety data review, Safety Management Team (SMT) support, and risk management. Ensures medicine safety through pharmacovigilance, pharmaco-epidemiology, and risk management strategies, overseeing pre- and post-marketing product support and compliance with global regulatory requirements.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Partner with Therapeutic Area Leads and the Head of Patient Safety Sciences to plan, lead, and advance programs and talent.
- Oversee scientific capabilities teams globally; ensure resources support SMTs for monitoring emerging safety profiles, risk identification, and risk planning.
- Ensure analytic support for evaluating safety profiles; mentor teams on project management, SMT requirements, signal detection, safety data/health authority queries, and risk management planning.
- Guide development/implementation of Global/EU/Local Risk Management Plans (RMPs), additional risk minimization measures (aRMM), and additional pharmacovigilance activities (aPVA).
- Oversee signal detection/analytic tools; ensure consistency/compliance of safety deliverables.
- Provide safety science process improvement expertise (SOPs/procedural documents) and represent safety interests externally.
- Lead/coach teams; provide performance feedback; ensure timely information for decision-making.
Qualifications
- Health science related degree required; PharmD/PhD/MD preferred.
- 10+ years pharmaceutical industry experience with significant global safety risk management.
- Required: line management experience.
- Strong knowledge of global pharmacovigilance regulations (signal detection, DSUR, PBRER, Risk Management Planning).
- Travel: up to 5–10%.
Benefits (explicitly listed)
- Health coverage (medical, pharmacy, dental, vision); wellbeing support (BMS Well-Being Account, Living Life Better, EAP); financial protection (401(k), disability, life/accident insurance, supplemental health, business travel protection, personal liability, identity theft benefit, legal support, survivor support).
The Director, Patient Safety Science Capabilities is a strategic leader responsible for setting direction and developing scientific support teams, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver safety science support across therapeutic areas for signal detection, safety data review, Safety Management Team (SMT) support, and risk management. Ensures medicine safety through pharmacovigilance, pharmaco-epidemiology, and risk management strategies, overseeing pre- and post-marketing product support and compliance with global regulatory requirements.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Partner with Therapeutic Area Leads and the Head of Patient Safety Sciences to plan, lead, and advance programs and talent.
- Oversee scientific capabilities teams globally; ensure resources support SMTs for monitoring emerging safety profiles, risk identification, and risk planning.
- Ensure analytic support for evaluating safety profiles; mentor teams on project management, SMT requirements, signal detection, safety data/health authority queries, and risk management planning.
- Guide development/implementation of Global/EU/Local Risk Management Plans (RMPs), additional risk minimization measures (aRMM), and additional pharmacovigilance activities (aPVA).
- Oversee signal detection/analytic tools; ensure consistency/compliance of safety deliverables.
- Provide safety science process improvement expertise (SOPs/procedural documents) and represent safety interests externally.
- Lead/coach teams; provide performance feedback; ensure timely information for decision-making.
Qualifications
- Health science related degree required; PharmD/PhD/MD preferred.
- 10+ years pharmaceutical industry experience with significant global safety risk management.
- Required: line management experience.
- Strong knowledge of global pharmacovigilance regulations (signal detection, DSUR, PBRER, Risk Management Planning).
- Travel: up to 5–10%.
Benefits (explicitly listed)
- Health coverage (medical, pharmacy, dental, vision); wellbeing support (BMS Well-Being Account, Living Life Better, EAP); financial protection (401(k), disability, life/accident insurance, supplemental health, business travel protection, personal liability, identity theft benefit, legal support, survivor support).