Hybrid Associate Director, Business Development - Princeton, NJ en Bristol Myers Squibb

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Position Summary

This is a role within Business Development Search and Evaluation. The ideal candidate will possess strong scientific expertise, broad drug development experience, and core leadership qualities.

A deep understanding of drug discovery, development, and regulatory processes is required, as the candidate will lead both scouting activities and evaluation/diligence of novel therapeutic opportunities for both licensing and M&A, while supporting transactional activities. Within BMS, the candidate is required to have strong interpersonal skills and work with multiple internal stakeholders to drive and support highly visible and time-sensitive business development projects. Furthermore, the candidate will be able to develop and deliver scientific, clinical, technical, and commercial assessments and evaluations to the relevant BMS governance bodies.

Key Responsibilities

Lead S&E efforts for BD opportunities across therapeutic areas of strategic focus, such as Hematology, Oncology, Cell Therapy, Immunology, Cardiovascular and Neuroscience

Demonstrate scientific rigor while working closely with internal stakeholders such as Enterprise Strategy, R&D and Commercial and potential external partners

Conduct initial triaging and assessment of inbound BD opportunities

Perform proactive search and external outreach to identify and initially qualify partnering or acquisition opportunities fitting BMS BD priorities

Ability to multi-task in balancing large book of work while ensuring consistent attention and prioritization of most critical and visible projects.

Serve as thought partner to facilitate formulation of therapeutic area strategy (e.g., focus indications, target MOAs, potential partners, etc.) while driving the execution of external business development elements.

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver assessments of external opportunities for BMS governance endorsement, including supporting/leading scientific evaluations and due diligence

Collaborate with Transaction BD and Corporate Development colleagues to support agreement negotiation and contracting

Support and participate in BD external partnering events (e.g. BIO, BIO EU, BMS Partnering Days) and technical / scientific meetings, and support the preparation of materials such as presentations, FAQ and related documents.