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Position: Associate Scientist/Scientist

Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey; Summit, New Jersey

Business Unit Overview
Our Drug Product Development team is committed to CMC design, development, and commercialization of innovative drug products to improve patient lives. We leverage the best people, collaboration, and cutting-edge innovation to achieve this commitment. BMS’s internal engine of innovation includes unrivaled industry leading expertise in CMC development of small molecules, protein biotherapeutics, protein degraders, and other therapeutic modalities. We collaborate closely with our colleagues in R&D and Commercial to design our drug products. Here, you’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope.

Position Summary
Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking an associate scientist or a scientist to join the Oral Product Development group within the Drug Product Development function. The drug product development group supports the formulation and process development of Bristol Myers Squibb’s drug candidates from preclinical stage to commercial process readiness. This position is responsible for formulation design, development, characterization, and technology transfer to enable development of small molecule drug products (DPs). The incumbent will be accountable as an individual contributor to support formulation development as well as providing necessary guidance and support of drug product control strategy for drug candidates across all stages of development.

Key Responsibilities
The Associate Scientist or Scientist will collaborate across BMS sites with Drug Product, Analytical, API, and related functions to execute drug product formulation/process development, formulation strategies, control strategies, and support of drug application submissions and approval.

Associate Scientist:

• Supports development of oral formulations for clinical studies and commercialization.
• Executes experiments based on protocols to support various teams and programs.
• Analyzes and interprets experimental data.
• Works under moderate to limited supervision.
• Supports departmental initiatives for assigned projects and methodologies.
• Maintains safety, regulatory, and compliance standards as they relate to the development of pharmaceuticals.
   

Scientist:

• Key member of a dynamic scientifically driven team, dedicated to the design, development, and characterization of robust small molecule drug product formulations.
• Develops oral formulations for clinical studies and commercialization.
• Supports drug product formulation and process development including evaluating the need and potential for enhancing oral bioavailability, stability, and processability of drug candidates through appropriate formulation strategies.
• Supports preparation of CMC regulatory documents.
• Supports departmental initiatives for assigned projects and methodologies.
• Maintains safety, regulatory, and compliance standards as they relate to the development of pharmaceuticals.
• Prepares technical reports, batch records, SOPs, publications, and oral presentations as required.
• Collaborates with cross-functional team members to develop and optimize formulations and enable technology transfer to CMOs and other sites for manufacturing and scale up activities.

Qualifications & Experience

Associate Scientist:

• Completed BS in Pharmaceutical Science, Chemical Engineering or related discipline with 1-5 years of pharmaceutical development experience; or MS with 0-2 years of experience.
• Ability to apply scientific and/or technical skills and functional knowledge to execute experiments within own group/project team.
• Ability to work predominantly within established procedures, asking clarifying questions and raising opportunities for improvement to their supervision.
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to make use of literature to solve basic scientific development problems.
• Ability to operate laboratory instrumentation / equipment independently.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability and interest to serve as a team member/leader in an environment where individual initiative, collaboration, and accountability are valued.
• The Associate Scientist will have organizational and interdepartmental responsibilities with regards to leading workgroups, cross-functional teams, strategy development/ implementation/execution, and cultural initiatives.

Scientist:

• Completed BS in Pharmaceutical Science, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline with 5-7 years of pharmaceutical development experience; MS with 2-4 years of experience; or Ph.D. with 0-2 years of experience.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong capabilities in experimental design and execution.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to provide leadership, guidance, and training to others within the department.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability and interest to serve as a team member/leader in an environment where individual initiative, collaboration, and accountability are valued.
• The Scientist will have organizational and interdepartmental responsibilities with regards to leading workgroups, cross-functional teams, strategy development/ implementation/execution, and cultural initiatives.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, 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

BMS has a diverse 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.

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