Director, Immunology Therapeutic Area Head (TAH)

Working with Us Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible. Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us . The TA Head, BMS Japan Medical Affairs, is a pharmaceutical executive with extensive therapeutic area knowledge, pharmaceutical/life sciences working experience and a current manager of teams within Medical Affairs. He/She engages extensively and naturally with external thought leaders and organizations while serving as the internal medical expert for their respective TA. They manage the full cycle of Medical Affairs (including Insight Generation, Actionable Insight identification and execution, Data Generation, Data Communication and Field Medical Scientific Engagement). Additionally, they are key members of the Japan Medical Leadership Team to ensure the success of their therapeutic area by advocating for their teams, escalating needs, priorities and resources of their team to senior leadership while simultaneously being enterprise minded to ensure the TA medical plans are reflective of the priorities of the broader organization. As a people manager, they are responsible for building and maintaining a high-performing medical team, driving motivation, and achieving results through coaching and modeling of best practices. 役割と責任範囲 (Roles & responsibilities) External Focus Engage  extensively with  external TLs  and organizations to capture insights, represent BMS products/pipeline; challenge and shape the medical community regarding respective therapeutic area medical and scientific concepts. Serve as the external representative of the therapeutic area at  meetings  such as Joint Partner Company Operating Meetings as well as Therapeutic Area focused (vs. disease area focused)  Congresses  (ie. JSMO vs JLCS) Engage  extensively with  industry groups  (e.g. JPMA, PhRMA, FIRM, etc.) to capture competitors' situation, trends and practices of medical activities and organization to help in benchmarking of Japan Medical team. Internal Focus: TA Strategy / Tactics Serve as the single point of medical responsibility for the overall therapeutic area and represent the consolidated,  medical voice at internal, cross-functional/commercialization focused, senior internal meetings  such as: JSWAT, financial Projection Meetings (ie P1), JPST, WWBT, Med TA Head Forum, BDOC, Access Committee, etc. Serve as  escalation point  to raise issues, advocate awareness and drive solutions for the disease areas and Field Medical  with cross functional partners  like R&D, BUD, Global Medical, etc. Help  ensure Strategies  of the Disease Areas are translated and aligned to direct  tactics  and  metrics  of the Field Medical Team. Implementation Serve as escalation for resource management specifically for 'above disease area' medical resources such as Scientific Communications, Medical Information Help set, manage, focus and allocate agilely  people, financial resources  and  work force  to ensure prioritized  projects and initiatives  have the appropriate funding and support. Drive and ensure quantitative and qualitative  metrics  are met/exceeded through direct accountability of the  Field Medical  Managers