Senior Statistician / Principal Statistician

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The Senior Statistician / Principal Statistician is a core team member of the global statistics group, responsible for providing statistical support for drug substances, APIs, and drug products across the BMS global internal and external manufacturing network. The position resides in Manufacturing Sciences and Technology within Bristol Myers Squibb’s Global Product Development and Supply (GPS). 

Role & Responsibilities:

• Apply statistical techniques to facilitate better decision-making and improve business operation.
• Regularly interact with management of different levels in strategy meetings. Contribute to strategic planning to ensure statistically optimized non-clinical development plans and assist in the creation of strategic objectives for regulatory filings.
• Provides leadership and statistical SME support for complex data analysis requests, including critical investigations, specification settings, stability analysis, and yield improvement initiatives. Takes accountability for ensuring quality and timely deliverables.
• Collaborates with global and site functions to identify areas for improvement in yield, robustness, and quality by applying statistical methods.
• Manages multiple studies to ensure consistency and adherence to standards within manufacturing and quality area
• Identify opportunities and drive innovation in advanced analytics and AI/ML techniques through process and quality applications.
• Act as a scientific and strategic partner to effectively engage with the matrix team in the drug manufacturing process and quality assurance.
• Connect and communicate with key stakeholders and the leadership team with statistical work in a clear, logical, complete, and transparent manner to support data-driven decisions.
• Prepare statistical courses and provide training to scientists. Mentor junior staff, proactively help with both their technical and career development, and seek general feedback and technical input from colleagues.
• Maintain awareness of external trends in advanced analytics and represent BMS at industry forums and conferences. Maintain and expand expertise in various computing tools to leverage internal and external data sets to drive decisions. Examples of such tools include R, Spotfire, SAS, etc. Continue development of various analysis tools to improve the process.
• Contributes to external and internal statistical community of practice.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Senior Statistician: Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience or master's degree with 4+ years of experience or PhD with 2+ years of experience
• Principal Statistician: Bachelor's degree with 9+ years of experience or master's degree with 7+ years of experience or PhD with 4+ years of experience in Statistics or a related field.
• High degree of technical competence and excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Able to manage project timeline and quality of deliverables
• Able to build strong relationship with peers and cross-functional partners to achieve higher performance. Highly motivated to drive innovation by raising the bar and challenging the status quo
• Have strong leadership skills and experience in working/managing a team.
• Pharmaceutical or related industry knowledge required, including experience and understanding of drug development and life-cycle management in the regulated environment.
• Experience in a cGMP-regulated environment, preferably gained through direct support of commercial manufacturing.
• Extensive knowledge of FDA/EMEA cGMPs and other global regulatory compliance guidelines (e.g., ICH) for drug manufacturing, packaging, and distribution.
• Proficiency in scientific computing/programming/software (SAS, R or Python, JMP) and implementation of advanced statistical analysis, data manipulation, graphing & simulation.

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.

The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee’s work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience. 
Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.
Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect and may include the following: Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care. Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP). Financial well-being resources and a 401(K). Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection and survivor support. Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown Days between Christmas and New Year’s holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility. Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave. Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources. Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.

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 a supportive culture, promoting global participation 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 an 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.

Supporting People with Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

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BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

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