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.

Position Summary / Objective

• This individual contributor role has task-level responsibility for managing and executing centralized activities in support of the onboarding of specialty vendors to facilitate rapid launch of Clinical Trials.
• The Vendor Support Specialist will interact with external vendors, Global Trial Managers (GTM)/Global Trial Specialist (GTS), the study team and other functional areas within BMS and will provide support to the Study Team for expedited start-up and conduct of global clinical Trials.
• As the main point of contact for vendor onboarding, develops and maintains collaborative working relationships with vendors which support all BMS Clinical Trials across the enterprise and engages closely with clinical trial vendors across multiple service categories of clinical trial activities in R&D.

Key Responsibilities

• Initiate and manage onboarding of external vendors including generation, processing, tracking and distribution of Confidential Disclosure Agreements (CDAs).
• Provide input into the creation of Scope of Work and support execution of final contract as needed for assigned clinical trials.
• Provide clinical trial sites contact information to vendor for initial study set-up.
• Review and provide input to study documentation related to vendor services including submission of final documents to the electronic Trial Master File (eTMF).
• Responsible for ongoing communication with vendor to ensure study milestones are met.
• May perform or oversee quality control of the vendor documents.
• Update and maintain information in various study-related clinical systems to determine and report status of vendor documents.
• Act as single point of contact for centralized activities relating to vendor services during study start-up.
• Ongoing maintenance and tracking of essential documentation and collection of updated/outstanding documentation.
• Ongoing communication with sites and study teams regarding centralized vendor activities
• Act as internal support for on boarding and facilitating access to Vendor Systems for BMS Study Teams and Investigator site staff.
• Develop tools, processes and reports which simplify and standardize vendor interface.
• Support Close-Out activities relating to Vendor documentation.
• Other duties as assigned to support vendor services in assigned Clinical Trials.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum of a bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in legal, Life science, Business Administration, or equivalent experience. Advanced degree a plus.
• 3-4 years of relevant Clinical development & operational experience, in Pharmaceutical, biotech, CRO or similar field, is required.
• Understanding of drug development process and Pharma, effective communication skills in English (written & oral), strong organizational, time-management, analytical and decision-making skills to efficiently evaluate, plan and accomplish work goals.
• Computer skills - MS office suite, SharePoint, etc. - CTMS (Veeva Vault CTMS & eTMF experience preferred, knowledge of portals, databases and other Clinical Trial enabling technologies
• Proven experience in managing key internal and external stakeholders (i.e. clinical trial vendors and global study teams) effectively by frequently soliciting input and gathering and incorporating feedback into processes as appropriate.
• Proven time management skills and ability to be flexible to meet job demands, manage multiple priorities, and take on new initiatives and improvement efforts.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrates a high level of adaptability in dealing with ambiguous and complex work environment and balances multiple demands on role in a responsive and professional manner.
• Ability to sustain high levels of performance in a constantly changing environment.

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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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