Job Description

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BMS Hyderabad is an integrated global hub where our work is focused on helping patients prevail over serious diseases by building sustainable and innovative solutions. This important science, technology, and innovation center will support a range of technology and drug development activities that will help us usher in the next wave of innovation.

Functional Area Description

Support the strategic and tactical planning, as well as operational management of biospecimens, which contribute to asset development. Our functional teams ensure timely availability of high quality, accurate, and annotated digital and biological specimens; along with managing biospecimen information, driven by end-to-end visibility and best in class logistics.

Position Summary / Objective

Manager, Biospecimen Operations Lead is an independent contributor who will work closely with our Biospecimen Planning Leads and Clinical Teams, to develop and implement biospecimen management plans for BMS-sponsored Full and Late phase clinical trials and externally acquired biospecimens. Members of this team will develop and execute asset and protocol-level biospecimen strategies, and work across the organization and with BMS\xe2\x80\x99s partners, to implement and project manage efforts to execute these strategies. Critical to this role is the ability to provide innovative solutions to oversee timelines for specimen data delivery and thereby, enabling quick decision-making and ensuring BMS\xe2\x80\x99s continuous competitive advantage. The individual will be responsible for supporting biospecimen management for the Full and Late Development assets, with opportunities to contribute toward optimizing work streams cross functionally, throughout the organization as it relates to biospecimens. \xe2\x80\x8b

Position Responsibilities

• Conducts selected tasks to plan and operationalize trials, while developing fundamental skills. Has the potential to support select clinical trials with low complexity.
• Ability to support Strategic Specimen Planning and Development (SSPED) and biological Specimen Management Plan (SpMP) processes independently, with minimal supervision. Drive and complete operational tasks dependent on these processes.
• Provide shipping/sample movement and management including requests, query and inventory reports, follow up active issues with vendors, prepare sample management related reports, review/prepare tracking activities (such as vendor manifests/inventories, tissue/blood match pairing, depleted/non-viable samples, loading documents to Shared Drive folders, etc.).
• Independently reviews clinical study protocol, providing comparison of vendor statement of work and biospecimen relevant sections, and feedback with support as needed.
• Able to request and/or access necessary vendor/system inventory files to perform specimen tracking.
• Able under direction, to create biospecimen tracker, using various tracking tools (MS Excel, Spotfire, Tableau or Polaris (if applicable) with support.
• Able to identify biospecimen related risks, with support from risk library. May require support for de novo risks and mitigation strategy proposals. Support Critical to Quality (C2Q) process with guidance, as needed.
• Exercises judgment within policy and procedure boundaries. Troubleshoots routine problems and understands when appropriate to ask for guidance. May need assistance to help prioritize BOW activities during critical deadlines
• Maintain intermediate working knowledge of assets and study related biospecimen requirements.
• Ensure completion of individual Study Transition Forms

Degree Requirements

• Scientific degree (AB/AS, BS, MS or higher) or equivalent experience preferred.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years academic, biotech, healthcare, or pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Basic understanding of clinical and biomedical research, GCP, GLP, CLIA, data and risk management.
• Experience desired but not limited to: biospecimen life cycle/operations, compliance, management, and vendor management.
• Working knowledge of MS Office Suite of tools.

Key Competency Requirements

• Demonstrated clinical trial experience, healthcare/medical/laboratory or equivalent.
• Vendor management experience (e.g., Central Labs, Bioanalytical, Biomarker, CROs, Biospecimen Storage Vendors, etc.).
• Ability to develop skills with training, for stakeholder management including conflict and change management.
• Biospecimen Planning and/or Operations Experience preferred but not mandatory.
• Developing knowledge of the drug discovery or developmental process.
• Applies Scientific and/or functional knowledge to conduct studies in assigned areas.
• Ability to effectively communicate, create and deliver presentation/information/data to knowledgeable audiences, with limited supervision.
• Ability to adopt a biopharma enterprise-wide and entrepreneurial mindset, to act with a sense of urgency, accountability, and integrity, and to have fun along the way.
• Demonstrates change Agility through willingness to pivot current ways to working to new model(s)

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Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as \xe2\x80\x9cTransforming patients\xe2\x80\x99 lives through science\xe2\x84\xa2 \xe2\x80\x9d, 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
Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is a necessary job function of this role, which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and it enhances the Company culture.

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