Manager, Imaging Management Lead

Job title: Manager, Imaging Management Lead

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Tactical operations resource for clinical teams supporting the imaging strategy and imaging vendor selection.
• Interacts and liaises with imaging vendor project management teams and external imaging KOLs to enhance the value of the relationship and capabilities to BMS needs
• Interacts with imaging BMS protocol management teams; attends regular protocol related team meetings and responsible for communicating imaging timelines/needs
• Participates in protocol/imaging document development/review
• Provides operational support to clinical team and sites; clinical team training/education
• Helps drive vendor contracting creation and review
• Ensures delivery of image data per pre-defined timelines and specifications
• Performs risk management and contributes to imaging issue resolution
• Partners with the key stakeholders to develop and align BMS imaging standards
• Ensures program level processes and plans are developed to secure consistency across studies within an imaging paradigm
• Establishes trust and builds successful relationships with key internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Using effective communication practices, clarifies expectations, seeks to understand the needs of others and proactively provides status updates keeping stakeholders informed and up to date
• Proactively seeks feedback from stakeholders on the performance of self and team, operational processes and ways to optimize relationships
• Uses effective negotiation skills, diplomacy and tact and leverages those competencies to ensure continuous progress with the imaging vendor thus moving issues to resolution
• Fosters teamwork between BMS functional areas and imaging vendor; creating a team environment based on mutual trust and respect

Reporting Relationship

Reports to Director, Imaging Management

Qualifications

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Demonstrated experience of working directly at or with an Imaging Core Lab/CRO a plus
• Minimum of 3-4 years pharmaceutical or CRO project management experience (Phase I-III) with a minimum of 3 years in imaging operations (imaging core lab and/or Imaging CRO), preferred
• Demonstrated experience managing 3rd party vendor
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple protocols containing imaging simultaneously
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex problems/data from a variety of sources, and through effective decision-making and planning, deliver superior business results
• Application of imaging within clinical trials across therapeutic areas
• Knowledge of read criteria used in oncology clinical trials
• Knowledge of ICH GCP and applicable local regulations governing clinical research along with basic medical and research knowledge
• Experience with various imaging modalities incorporated and implemented in clinical trials for drug development
• Creative thinker with proven ability to work independently; effective problem-solving skills; highly functional in collaborative environment; team player
• Excellent networking skills with proven track record working in a highly matrixed environment, requiring sophisticated stakeholder and relationship management

Education/Experience/ Licenses/Certifications:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree within life sciences or equivalent

Travel:

• Willingness to travel (5-10% of time) to build relationships and review onsite capabilities

• We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

• How We Work

• Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

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