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Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us . **Position Summary** The Head of Patient Safety Sciences will be responsible for leading and managing a team of scientists and associates across therapeutic areas within the Worldwide Patient Safety organization. This critical role involves ensuring the safety of our medicines through effective pharmacovigilance, pharmaco-epidemiology, and risk management strategies. The role will oversee both pre-marketing and post-marketing product support, ensuring compliance with global regulatory requirements, and driving strategic initiatives to enhance safety science processes. **Duties/Responsibilities** **General Product Scientific Support** + Partner with Safety Evidence and Sciences Head to plan, lead, and advance programs and talent. + Oversee a team of safety scientists, risk management experts, and pharmacovigilance associates globally + Oversee resources to ensure adequate support to Safety Management Teams (SMTs) for monitoring and managing the emerging safety profile, risk identification, and risk planning of products. + Ensure the availability of analytic support resources for MSA in evaluating the safety profiles of BMS assets. + Mentor individuals and teams in aspects of project management, SMT requirements, core signal detection, and safety data/Health authority queries. + Provide strategic guidance regarding the development and implementation of Global/EU/Local Market Risk Management Plans (RMPs), additional risk minimization measures (aRMM), and additional pharmacovigilance activities (aPVA). + Oversee the development, maintenance, and availability of signal detection and analytic tools and resources. + Provide expertise and guidance to teams authoring safety sections/safety deliverables to ensure consistency and compliance with current requirements. **Cross-Functional Activities** + Provide strategy for process improvement and cross-functional initiatives for Safety Science, including SOPs and Procedural Documents. + Drive interactions with key line functions in support of safety activities between Safety Science and Stakeholders. + Establish, cultivate, and maintain external relationships with thought leaders and companies. + Represent BMS safety science interests in external groups (regulatory bodies and pharmaceutical industry trade associations). **Leadership and Team Development** + Facilitate skill development by coaching others and sharing expertise. + Provide team members with regular and constructive performance feedback. + Build a collaborative, supportive learning environment and ensure high-quality delivery of pharmacovigilance activities. + Ensure timely information is provided to drive accurate decision-making. **Qualifications** + Health science related degree required. Advanced scientific degree (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MD) preferred. + Minimum of 12 years of relevant pharmaceutical industry experience, with significant experience in global pharmaceutical safety risk management. + Line management experience is required. + Thorough understanding of global pharmacovigilance regulations, particularly with respect to DSUR, PBRER, and Risk Management Planning. **Specific Knowledge, Skills, Abilities** + Exemplary leadership skills with proven ability to foster partnerships within a functional area, across organizational boundaries and companies. + Effective leadership capability in building high-performance teams, particularly across a matrix organization. + Demonstrated problem-solving skills, including in challenging and ambiguous situations. + Creative thinker with exceptional listening and analytical skills. + Skilled at being adaptable/flexible and managing multiple demands and shifting priorities. + Effective time management and comfortable handling risk and uncertainty. + Ability to handle conflict, read situations quickly, and find common ground for achieving cooperation and resolution. **Travel** : This position requires up to 5-10% of travel. 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: 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. 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/ (https://careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility) eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement. 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. BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area. If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/ Any data processed in connection with role applications will be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and regulations. **Company:** Bristol-Myers Squibb **Req Number:** R1589015 **Updated:** 2025-01-30 03:47:31.062 UTC **Location:** Madison-NJ Bristol Myers Squibb is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, gender expression, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by law.