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Position Summary
The Established Brands portfolio plays a significant role in BMS's diversification strategy. The Associate Director, Established Brands Regulatory Lead takes ownership of several Established Brands and oversees the lifecycle of marketed products, ensuring compliance with global/regional regulatory requirements (e.g., renewals, label updates, and safety reports) in the BMS footprint.
Duties/Responsibilities

• Global Regulatory Leadership:

• Lead the regulatory strategy for assigned Established Brands assets and ensure the maintenance of marketing authorizations (MAs) globally through collaboration with regional and country regulatory leads
• Will represent GRS at the Established Brands Global Program Team (GPT)
• Support portfolio optimization (study terminations, product and SKU deletion)
• Identify and escalate regulatory risks, ensuring seamless collaboration across teams to drive successful regulatory outcomes.
• Review Clinical Study Reports and other relevant documents, provide content to Safety Aggregate Reports (DSUR, PSUR/PBRER, Annual Report), and to HA requests/responses
• Lead cross-functional rapid response teams to define response strategy and ensure that HA deadlines are met
• Oversee the lifecycle of marketed products, ensuring compliance with global/regional regulatory requirements (e.g., renewals, label updates, and safety reports) and ensure regulatory correspondence, postmarketing requirements and commitments are addressed and tracked in Verity.
• Proactively prioritize and complete multiple projects within established deadlines.
• Provide regulatory strategic guidance and oversight for deletion proposals put forth by the Worldwide Established Brands Steering Committee (WWEB SC) and transition of assets from In-line/Key Brand to an Established Brand.
• Work with the Regulatory Divestiture Lead on proposed EB divestiture assessments and support transition to buyer
• Proactive Problem Solving:

• Understand the regulatory landscape and identify potential issues early, proactively resolve them, and escalate as necessary.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Collaborate with EBMT, as well as Enterprise-wide colleagues in Global Development and Pharmaceutical Supply (GPS), Commercial, Legal, and Medical organizations to ensure the regulatory strategy supports global and regional needs.
• Stakeholder Engagement:

• Build and maintain productive relationships with internal teams to ensure the smooth execution of regulatory activities.
• Regulatory Landscape :

• Maintain awareness of evolving FDA, EMA and international regulations and interpretation, competitive landscape, regulatory precedents, and work cross-functionally to implement those evolved regulations for the assigned projects.

Reporting Relationship
Individual Contributor
Drug Development (DD) / Global Regulatory Sciences (GRS) / Global Regulatory Sciences HYD
Qualifications
Education/Experience/Licenses/Certifications:

• Scientific background, Ph.D., M.D., PharmD, M.S. in Pharmacy or Life Sciences or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years overall pharma experience, including prior position(s) with Regulatory Affairs/Sciences.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Significant experience in managing lifecycle regulatory activities, including new therapeutic indications, safety, and CMC variations.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of complex medical and scientific subject matter as well as evolving regulatory policy and guidance
• Solid knowledge of regulatory affairs (US or EU), preferably in multiple therapeutic areas.
• Strong depth and breadth of knowledge of the submission process and significant experience in writing high-level documents.
• Broad intelligence of the regulatory environment across key regions, with anticipation of future trends and their impact.
• Experience in leading a team in a matrix-driven environment.
• Expertise in driving strategic thinking and plans for successful regulatory outcomes.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, including excellent written and verbal communication.
• Representation of the positions of the respective regulatory functions on project teams within BMS and across alliances.
• Setting priorities, working independently in a resource-constrained environment, and delivering in a timely manner.
• Strong influencing and persuasive skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence different styles and individuals at various organizational levels.
• Strong collaboration and analytical skills to ensure that emerging trends are thoroughly assessed and vetted for potential business implications.
• Managing multiple priorities and complex projects in an ambiguous environment.

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On-site Protocol
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