Senior Director, Clinical Supply Team Lead (CSTL)

Key Responsibilities
- Provide TA-level strategic direction and operational leadership across the portfolio, ensuring alignment with clinical development 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.
- Own and oversee TA-level capacity planning and workload balancing, including intra- and inter-TA resource alignment across CSLs, TSMs, and supporting roles.
- Own and leverage Control Tower / CSSSA and TA-level performance data to monitor KPIs, anticipate demand, and drive performance improvement.
- Lead the intake process for all new requests (CMC, GDO, IRT, etc.), chair intake meetings, and make CSL/TSM assignment decisions based on expertise, capacity, study prioritization, and other factors.
- Act as first-line decision-maker for cross-study/cross-asset conflicts, study prioritization, escalation/acceleration handling, and trade-off alignment across the TA and between TAs.
- Anticipate risks; proactively intervene or escalate to avoid near misses, delays, or supply disruptions; lead root cause analyses when issues occur.
- Serve as the TA’s senior representative during portfolio reviews, scenario planning, pipeline acceleration discussions, and integration activities.
- Contribute to improving CD&OP maturity by reinforcing consistent inputs, process discipline, and cross-functional engagement; ensure appropriate projects are escalated for rapid resolution.
- Own TA-level KPI frameworks, dashboards, and performance metrics.
- Drive data-enabled decision-making using AI-enabled insights and validated data sets.
- Partner with other Clinical Supply Team Leads for intra- and inter-TA harmonization and continuous improvement.
- Oversee TA-level compliance to GxP, Quality, and regulatory inspection expectations.
- Provide direct line management, coaching, and development for assigned staff; drive engagement and performance.

Qualifications & Experience
- 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.
- Expertise in end-to-end clinical supply planning, investigational product management, and global study execution.
- Demonstrated strategic planning and leadership skills.
- Knowledge of 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 and influence without authority across global/cross-functional environments.
- Advanced analytical skills with experience using digital tools, dashboards, AI-enabled insights, or supply chain performance data.
- Change leadership success in dynamic, complex, fast-paced environments.
- Ability to recruit, select, coach, engage, and develop team members.

Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree (MBA, MS, PharmD, or related discipline).
- Experience leading or implementing large-scale process, digital, or organizational transformations.
- Prior leadership of global clinical supply teams.
- Experience in portfolio-level planning, scenario modeling, or pipeline acceleration initiatives.
- Familiarity with enterprise digital platforms (IBP, Control Tower, Lighthouse, etc.).
- Excellent cross-functional negotiating and influencing skills.

Benefits (as stated)
- Health coverage (medical, pharmacy, dental, vision).
- Wellbeing support programs (BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, EAP).
- Financial wellbeing/protection (401(k), short-/long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, survivor support).
- Paid Time Off (flexible time off or annual paid vacation depending on location/employment type) and paid national holidays; additional time off may include paid sick time, volunteer days, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence, and Global Shutdown (per eligibility).

Application Instructions
- If the posting does not perfectly match your resume, apply anyway.