Position SummaryThe Senior Director, Worldwide Cell Therapy Autoimmune Medical Affairs, Neurology/LCM, is a senior medical affairs leader within the Worldwide Cell Therapy Autoimmune Medical Affairs team. This individual will define and execute the global medical strategy for the application of cellular therapies across priority therapeutic areas, including Neurology, Autoimmune Cytopenias, and other LCM therapeutic areas. The role will advance scientific leadership, evidence generation, external engagement, medical education, and ecosystem readiness to support the development and future integration of cell therapy into clinical practice across these therapeutic areas.
The Senior Director will serve as a strategic partner for Clinical Development, Commercial, HEOR, Market Access, Regulatory, Field Medical, regional, and local medical teams, and external scientific experts. This leader will help translate emerging science into actionable medical strategy, shape multidisciplinary engagement across specialties, and ensure global-to-local alignment.
Key Responsibilities- Lead development and execution of the worldwide medical affairs strategy for cellular therapies across Neurology, Autoimmune Cytopenias, and other LCM therapeutic areas, ensuring alignment with portfolio priorities, cross-functional strategy, and emerging clinical evidence.
- Serve as the global medical affairs lead for assigned therapeutic areas, translating disease-area strategy, scientific insights, and clinical development priorities into clear medical objectives, tactical plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Partner closely with Clinical Development, Translational Medicine, Regulatory, Commercial, HEOR, Market Access, Field Medical, regional medical teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders to support evidence generation, lifecycle planning, governance milestones, and indication readiness.
- Shape and lead external scientific engagement strategies with global thought leaders, multidisciplinary experts, professional societies, patient advocacy partners, and other stakeholders to generate insights and inform medical strategy.
- Advance the scientific understanding of cellular therapies in Neurology, Autoimmune Cytopenias, and other LCM therapeutic areas by leading medical education, congress strategy, scientific communications, advisory boards, and expert forums in a compliant manner.
- Drive global-to-local knowledge transfer by developing scientific narratives, lexicons, training resources, medical materials, and communication platforms that enable consistent, high-quality execution across regions and markets.
- Support indication and ecosystem readiness by identifying specialty-specific barriers to future adoption, referral pathways, multidisciplinary care needs, patient identification considerations, institutional capability gaps, and opportunities to improve clinical practice excellence.
- Collaborate with evidence generation and HEOR colleagues to define medical evidence needs, support investigator-sponsored research and collaborative research opportunities, and ensure insight generation informs scientific strategy and future planning.
- Monitor the evolving scientific, clinical, regulatory, competitive, and treatment landscape across assigned therapeutic areas and translate key developments into actionable implications for BMS strategy.
- Lead, coach, and develop direct report(s), fostering accountability, inclusion, scientific rigor, strategic thinking, and strong execution within the Worldwide Cell Therapy Autoimmune Medical Affairs team.
- Represent Worldwide Cell Therapy Autoimmune Medical Affairs in internal governance forums, matrix teams, leadership discussions, and external scientific settings with executive presence and strong enterprise leadership.
- Ensure all medical affairs activities are conducted in accordance with BMS policies, applicable laws and regulations, and the highest standards of scientific integrity, ethics, and compliance.
Qualifications & Experience- Advanced scientific or medical degree required; MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, NP, PA, or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience in medical affairs, clinical development, translational medicine, or related pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical function; experience in cell therapy, immunology, neurology, hematology, gastroenterology, or autoimmune disease strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute medical affairs strategy across complex therapeutic areas, preferably in a global or multi-regional role.
- Strong understanding of cellular therapy science, clinical development, evidence generation, treatment delivery models, and multidisciplinary care considerations; direct experience with CAR T or other advanced therapies preferred.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing strategic decisions across a matrixed organization without direct authority.
- People leadership experience, including coaching, development, performance management, and talent stewardship.
- Proven ability to engage external experts and translate scientific and clinical insights into strategy, education, evidence generation, and executional priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex scientific information into clear, balanced, and compelling narratives for internal and external audiences.
- Strong business acumen, strategic judgment, prioritization, and operational discipline, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to inclusion, integrity, accountability, scientific excellence, and patient-focused decision making.
- Ability to travel globally, as needed, up to approximately 30%.
#LI-HYBRIDCompensation Overview:Madison - Giralda - NJ - US: $229,380 - $277,956Princeton - NJ - US: $229,380 - $277,956
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.
Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.
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.
On-site ProtocolBMS has an 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.
