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Functional Area Description

GDM is responsible for clinical trial data acquisition, data management and data review, ensuring quality data for trials across the BMS R&D portfolio.

Position Summary:

The Director, CDA Strategy is a leadership role with responsibility for delivering the strategy, technology roadmap, and processes for acquiring data for our clinical trials, keeping the site and patient experience at the forefront, providing data in line with end-to-end data strategies, enabling analysis and reporting and promoting automation. This role reports to the Head of Clinical Data Acquisition within GDM and is a full-time, office-based position.

Position Responsibilities

• Defining and driving the strategy for collecting clinical trial data, including site based (EDC) data, external vendor data, eCOA data, and other device/digital data, integrating with end-to-end data strategies. Developing the technology roadmaps required to deliver the strategy, promote automation and embed AI.

• Defining the processes, technologies and data flows required to collect new data types and deliver data to end users and/or to make significant updates to existing data types, ensuring standardization and integration across end-to-end data flow.

• Developing key data collection components designed to optimize the site and patient experience while ensuring downstream data requirements for analysis and reporting are effectively met.

• Leading broad cross-functional initiatives to establish industry-leading data capture capabilities, e.g., EMR to EDC to source data directly from EMRs. This includes creating project charters, project plans, sponsorship communications, implementation plans and driving projects from start to finish.

• Developing senior leadership level communications to share strategies, make proposals, and update on strategic initiatives. This could include business cases.

• Making decisions, solving complex problems and delivering on accountabilities.

• Staying on top of industry evolution to simplify/enhance user experience, leverage automation/AI, deliver operational efficiencies, and make appropriate investments to stay ahead of technology/data trends.

• Leading the development and maintenance of procedural documents which are reflective of industry standards and regulatory requirements and include optimal processes.

• Developing strong and productive working relationships with key leaders throughout GDM, DQS, Drug Development and BMS with the ability to think strategically and effectively express his/her views to senior management.

• Developing strong and productive working relationships with key vendors in the clinical data acquisition space and proposing the right advancements with the right vendors.

• Representing BMS in interactions with key external partners as part of any committee or industry group relating to data collection.

Degree / Experience Requirement:

Bachelors degree required with an advanced degree preferred.

At least 10 years of relevant strategy, technology and process experience specifically within clinical data acquisition across modalities (ie, site-collected, external, eCOA and device/digital data) including data integration, automation and incorporation of AI.

Successful track record of leading, influencing, driving strategy and making decisions.

Key Competency Requirements

• Expert understanding of clinical data acquisition strategy, processes, technologies and end to end data flows.

• Proven expertise in EDC (including Medidata Rave), external vendor data, eCOA, and digital/device data, including strategy, processes and tools.

• Demonstrated experience with leveraging automation and AI to enable processes.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver tangible impact by planning and executing strategic projects involving cross-functional stakeholders.

• Proven record of making decisions, resolving complex problems and driving significant initiatives to completion.

• Strong, clear oral and communication skills, including the ability to craft communications and business cases for senior leadership.

• Strong knowledge of GCP/ICH guidelines.

• Demonstrated partnership across various collaborative and industry forums.

• Sufficient technical expertise to be a credible interface to all global development and business partners across clinical data acquisition types.

• Broad intelligence of clinical data acquisition including future trends.

• Influential leadership and communication skills.

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The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee's work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.
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Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans in effect at the time and may require enrollment. Our benefits include:

• Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.

• Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).

• Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.

Work-life benefits include:

Paid Time Off

• US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees)

• Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays

Based on eligibility*, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.

All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown.

*Eligibility Disclosure: The summer hours program is for United States (U.S.) office-based employees due to the unique nature of their work. Summer hours are generally not available for field sales and manufacturing operations and may also be limited for the capability centers. Employees in remote-by-design or lab-based roles may be eligible for summer hours, depending on the nature of their work, and should discuss eligibility with their manager. Employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement should consult that document to determine if they are eligible. Contractors, leased workers and other service providers are not eligible to participate in the program.

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On-site Protocol

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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.

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