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Position Summary
Manager, Biospecimen Lead is an independent contributor who will work closely with our Clinical Teams to develop and implement biospecimen management plan for BMS-sponsored Phase 1-4 clinical trials and externally acquired biospecimens. Will develop and execute asset and protocol-level biospecimen strategies and work across the organization and with BMSs partners to implement and project manage efforts to execute these strategies. Critical to this role is the ability to provide innovative solutions to oversee timelines for specimen data delivery and thereby, enabling quick decision-making and ensuring BMSs continuous competitive advantage. Responsible for supporting biospecimen management for assets with opportunities to contribute toward optimizing work streams cross functionally throughout the organization as it relates to biospecimens.
Duties/Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage the complete lifecycle of biospecimens collected for clinical studies with minimal supervision.

• Core Clinical Team member responsible for providing Shipping/sample movement and management including requests, query and inventory reports, follow up active issues with vendors, prepare sample management related reports, review/prepare tracking activities (such as vendor manifests/inventories, tissue/blood match pairing, depleted/non-viable samples, loading documents to Shared Drive folders, etc.).

• Independently reviews clinical study protocol providing comparison of vendor statement of work and biospecimen relevant sections and feedback with support as needed.

• Performs routine vendor management responsibilities. Able to request and/or access necessary vendor/system inventory files to perform specimen tracking.

• Able to create biospecimen tracker using various tracking tools (MS Excel, Spotfire, Tableau or Polaris (if applicable)) with support.

• Able to identify biospecimen related risks with support from risk library. Support Critical to Quality (C2Q) process, if needed.

• Exercises judgment within policy and procedure boundaries. Troubleshoots routine problems and understands when appropriate to ask for guidance. Able to prioritize BOW activities during critical deadlines.

• Maintain intermediate working knowledge of compound and study related biospecimen requirements.

Qualifications
Specific Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Minimum of 4-5 years academic, biotech, healthcare or pharmaceutical industry experience or equivalent.
• intermediate understanding of clinical and biomedical research, GCP, GLP, CLIA, data management, risk management and regulatory issues.
• Demonstrated clinical trial experience, healthcare/medical/laboratory or equivalent.
• Vendor experience (e.g., Central Labs, Bioanalytical, Biomarker, CROs, Biospecimen Storage Vendors, etc.).
• Demonstrates skills with stakeholder management including conflict and change management.
• Biospecimen management experience required.
• Knowledge of the drug discovery or developmental process.
• Applies Scientific and/or functional knowledge to conduct studies in assigned area.

• Ability to effectively communicate, create and deliver presentation/information/data to knowledgeable audiences, with limited supervision.

• Ability to adopt a biopharma enterprise-wide and entrepreneurial mindset, to act with a sense of urgency, accountability and integrity, and to have fun along the way.

• Demonstrates change Agility through willingness to pivot current ways to working to new model(s)

Education/Experience/ Licenses/Certifications:

• Scientific degree (Associates, Bachelors, Masters, or higher), Project management or equivalent experience.

Travel:

• Travel required is minimal, 0%- 5% of time, when organization requests

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