Senior Director, Clinical Development & Field Medical Engagement in Denham

Working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognises the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.

You know the frustration. Field teams gathering rich, real-world intelligence about sites, investigators, and patients and clinical development teams designing and running trials without fully tapping into it. Two worlds operating in parallel, each with pieces of the picture the other needs. This role was created to fix that. Permanently.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

This isn't a coordination role. This is a structural leadership position — one that carries both the authority and the accountability to fundamentally change how Neuroscience development works at BMS. You’ll hold two concurrent mandates, and that duality is the point. As the named clinical development contact for all field medical teams — MSLs, MELs, RMLs, and MMLs — you’ll be the person who finally makes field intelligence actionable. You’ll design and implement the model that captures site performance data, investigator relationships, competitive signals, and patient flow observations, and routes them directly into the hands of the teams who can act on them. You’ll build the governance, the cadence, the escalation pathways — and you’ll do it in genuine partnership with Medical Affairs, with compliance baked in from the start. The result? Enrollment decisions informed by real insight. Site issues surfaced and resolved faster. A development organisation that moves with more precision because it sees more clearly.

As a Medical Director on assigned studies, you’ll carry full medical and scientific accountability — safety oversight, medical monitoring, eligibility review, DMC support, protocol development and amendments. You’ll represent the study to health authorities, investigators, and cross‑functional forums. Your scientific credibility isn’t a supporting act here; it’s central to everything.

Why This Role Is Rare

Most organisations hire for one side of this equation or the other. BMS has deliberately designed a role that holds both because the person who can do both is exactly who’s needed to make the integration credible. You’ll be building something that doesn’t fully exist yet. That means the infrastructure you create, the operating model you design, the metrics you define — these will shape how BMS runs neuroscience programs for years to come. Your fingerprints will be on the architecture.

When it works - when enrollment accelerates because a field insight reached the right person at the right time, when a site issue gets resolved weeks earlier than it would have — you’ll know exactly what you built to make that happen.

The Impact You'll Have

• On patients: Faster, better‑run trials mean treatments reach the people who need them sooner.
• On programs: Your model reduces the lag between field intelligence and development decisions — a gap that currently costs time, quality, and opportunity.
• On people: Field teams will finally have a direct line into clinical development. Development teams will finally have structured access to what the field sees. You’ll be the person who made that possible.
• On your own trajectory: This is a VP‑track role for a physician‑leader who wants to operate at the highest levels of pharmaceutical medicine — not just managing studies, but shaping how an entire therapeutic area runs.

You'll Thrive Here If You...

• Hold an MD, DO, MBBS or equivalent physician qualification, with experience in neuroscience, CNS, or psychiatry strongly preferred.
• Bring 7+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience spanning medical affairs and/or clinical development.
• Have worked at the interface of field medical, clinical development, or clinical operations — and felt, firsthand, where the gaps are.
• Know what it takes to run a clinical trial medically and can hold Medical Director accountability on active studies.
• Are a natural cross‑functional leader — someone who influences at the senior level without relying on direct authority, and who builds trust across organisations that don’t always speak the same language.
• Can translate fluently between operational, medical, and strategic audiences — knowing what each one needs to hear to move forward.

What BMS Brings To You

At Bristol Myers Squibb, Neuroscience is a priority therapeutic area with a pipeline that demands exactly the kind of integrated, senior‑level medical leadership this role represents. You’ll have the resources, the organizational mandate, and the leadership visibility to build something that matters — and a company behind you that understands why it matters.

Bristol Myers Squibb is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 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 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 Responsibilities

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 adastaffingsupport@bms.com.

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