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Title: Senior Process Engineer I, Product Management

Location: Summit, NJ

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global Biopharma company committed to a single mission: to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines focused on helping millions of patients around the world in disease areas such as oncology, cardiovascular, immunoscience and fibrosis. Our cell therapy platforms focus around two distinct and complementary technologies Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CARs) and T-Cell Receptors (TCRs). Our goal is to revolutionize medicine by re-engaging the body’s immune system to treat cancer.

Come, join the BMS Cell Therapy Development and Operations (CTDO) Division, and be a part of the team building leading cell therapy platforms to serve our patients with novel cellular immunotherapies. The Cell Therapy Product Team of the Technical Operations (CTTO) Division of CTDO plays a critical role in investigations, technology transfers, process validation, CMC life cycle management, technical oversight of external and internal manufacturing partners, process engineering and establishing manufacturing standards to enable a robust and scalable global cell therapy manufacturing network.

We hire the best people and provide them with a work environment that places a premium on diversity, integrity, collaboration and personal development. Through a culture of inclusion, we create a better, more productive work environment. We believe that the diverse experiences and perspectives of all our employees help to drive innovation and transformative business results.

We are looking for an Engineer to join our Product Management team in Cell Therapy Product Team. The successful candidate will work on product lifecycle strategy and execution to enable the teams to sustainably deliver drug product supply. Scope of role is to identify lifecycle initiatives to improve process robustness, reduce OOS investigations and and implement lifecycle management changes throughout CTDO network. This role is a great opportunity to interface with the Product Sciences/ GMS Labs, Product specific TPT and CMC teams and Site teams to generate proof of concept for process improvement inititaives, represent GMP site implementation interests in planning, development, and prototyping stages, and then coordinate with Site MS&T, quality, Regulatory and Steward teams throughout execution phases to communicate global strategy and share information. This is a key role that will translate product strategies into realized gains in the manufacturing network. The role is also a key interface between product teams and the manufacturing network influencing the product strategies to be a realistic balance of product goals, manufacturing capability, cost and complexity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop deep thorough knowledge of the cell therapy process
• Evaluate and identify initiatives that support process improvements,  robustness, COGM and automation
• Support tech transfer and OOs investigations
• Oversee implementation of process initiatives and transfers between sites.
• Partner with product technical stewards and Regulatory teams to align on LCM strategy and manage implementation
•  Ensure technical and manufacturing requirements are addressed throughout lifecycle of new solutions
• Review technical reports and source documentation to support product lifecycle and regulatory submissions.
• Partner with system integration teams, business process owners and other global teams to align process data handling initiatives within the Process initiatives
• This position may require up to 10% of travel

Qualifications & Experience:

• Senior Engineer I: Degree in Biochemical or Chemical Engineering or Sciences: Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree with 6-8+ years of experience, Master’s degree with 5+ years or Ph.D. degree with 1-2 years of experience
• Ability to effectively work in cross functional teams, meet deadlines as an individual contributor, and priori‐tize responsibilities.
• Experience working in a self-driven, performance/results oriented, fast paced matrix environment.
• Experience assimilating large data sets in support of batch history sections for regulatory submissions.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including issue resolution, root cause investigations and CAPAs.
• Ability to assess risk and develop contingency plans for process risks
• Able to manage time and elevate relevant issues to project lead and line management.
• Detail oriented with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to work with teams in different functions and organizations

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