Senior Corporate Counsel, Drug Development

Role Summary

The Senior Corporate Counsel, DD Law role will have the opportunity to join the dynamic DD Law team at BMS. The DD Law team provides critical support and partnership to the global Drug Development organization, helping to deliver on our mission to develop and deliver more medicines to more patients faster. This individual will join an expert team of global Drug Development lawyers and will be charged with serving as a substantive leader for complex escalations and advising on novel approaches to accelerate development. This individual should bring pharmaceutical legal experience with the ability to learn quickly, exercise excellent judgement, navigate complexity and be able to work with urgency and creativity across time zones, regulatory regimes, and senior stakeholders to advise on the successful resolution of legal and business issues and enable speed of getting medicines to patients who cannot wait. Excellent legal judgement and the ability to clearly communicate on complex topics with senior business stakeholders is critical to success in this role.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead legal advisor to Senior Vice Presidents reporting into the Executive Vice President, Head of Drug Development, and join their senior leadership teams, advising on complex issues that arise during the course of global drug development. Potential business clients to be supported include, SVP, Head of Global Development Operations, SVP Head of Global Regulatory Sciences, and SVP Head of Worldwide Patient Safety.
• Collaborate with Drug Development legal team to develop and advance innovative approaches to accelerate drug development transactions, including automation.
• Advise senior leaders on Drug Development initiatives that evolve internal and external stakeholder ways of working and improve the speed, accuracy and quality of drug development and ultimately speed of life-saving medacines to patients.
• Work closely with Law Department colleagues to bring seamless legal support to Drug Development and provide DD legal guidance across the Law Department.

Qualifications

• Legal degree with 12 or more years of pharmaceutical legal experience. Helpful experience includes law firm, in-house and/ or government work experience. Experience working in the R&D space is helpful, but not required.
• Demonstrated ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues and advise and influence senior executives, including SVP or C-suite stakeholders, on high-impact legal and regulatory matters.
• Proven history of identifying and leading senior stakeholders and colleagues to implement innovative solutions to reduce waste, increase efficiency and improve management of legal risks.
• Demonstrated ability to lead across large, global matrix organizations and influence senior leaders and colleagues across multiple functions to efficiently resolve complex issues.
• Ability to independently prioritize and manage multiple projects.
• Flexibility to work with speed and quality on a broad range of matters.
• Ability to communicate complex issues clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing to senior leaders.
• Excellent judgement, time management, and cross functional collaboration skills required.
• Licensed to practice in the U.S.