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Work Environment

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. Read more at careers.bms.com/working-with-us.

Position Overview

This position provides expertise to drive excellence and consistency in statistical programming SDTM implementation team. Primarily, this position is responsible for providing study SDTM deliverables that support analysis and reporting activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Primarily responsible for quality and timely delivery of SDTM artifacts required for downstream activities and regulatory submissions.
• Review synopsis and/or protocol and provide comments for the Review Committee.
• Design SDTM specification as per Company CDISC standards and ensure they meet downstream ADaM and Reporting requirements.
• Understand different formats of data collection including CRF and non-CRF (external) data and the challenges involved in integration of the two sources into target SDTM model.
• Annotate CRFs and Review annotated CRFs in accordance with BMS guidelines and appropriate metadata to reflect tabulation datasets.
• Oversee/develop SAS programs to generate SDTM datasets.
• Create and/or validate eCRT package for regulatory submission.
• Working knowledge of BMS SDTM automation tools, macros and metadata.
• Intricate understanding of clinical development life-cycle, stakeholder interactions and data interactions that aid in identification of issues root-cause.
• Maintain high quality of deliverables with validation and resolution of issues surfaced in Pinnacle21 and BMS Quality tools and ensure the quality meets regulatory submission standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and Study team members to manage study timelines, and resolve issues and escalate if necessary.
• Ensure that all programming deliverables are compliant with CDISC.
• Partner with CROs and act as a primary point of contact for SDTM programming activities.
• Provide oversight of CRO/vendor programming activities to ensure adherence of standards as well as receiving quality and timely deliverables.
• Receive, process and review datasets, as well as data review reports from CROs.
• Ensure that programming best practices are adhered to by both CRO and BMS programmers.
• Participate in study/project team meetings as a core member and provide technical expertise/support.

Degree Requirements

BA/BS in a relevant scientific discipline such as Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical sciences, Statistics, or Computer science.

Experience Requirements

Minimum of 4 plus years Pharmaceutical/CRO experience as a SAS Programmer supporting clinical trials for regulatory submissions with expertise in CDSIC/SDTM with an end-to-end understanding of clinical drug development lifecycle. Please see job description for detailed expected experience.

Compensation

The starting compensation for this job is a range from $101,000 - 126,700, plus incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility). The starting pay takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills and where the job is performed. Final, individual compensation is decided based on demonstrated experience. For more on benefits, please visit our BMS Careers site. Eligibility for specific benefits listed in our careers site may vary based on the job and location.

Benefit Offerings

Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect and may include the following:

• Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care.
• Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP).
• Financial well-being resources and a 401(K).
• Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection and survivor support.
• Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown days between Christmas and New Year's holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility.
• Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave.
• Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources.
• Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.

Encouragement to Apply

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn't perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers

With a single vision as inspiring as Transforming patients' lives through science, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role.

Occupancy Types

• Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility.
• Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture.
• For field-based and remote-by-design roles, the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

Commitment to Accessibility

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

COVID-19 Vaccination Recommendation

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

Criminal Record Consideration

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

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