Director, Regional Medical Lead, Neuroscience

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.

Position Summary

The Regional Medical Lead (RML) for ICON Neuroscience is a critical leadership role working in a matrix environment with Medical and cross-functional teams that define Global strategies and support country affiliates in advancing the pipeline and enabling launch success.

The RML is both a liaison and a catalyst working with Global teams and the markets to drive alignment with a cohesive focus to deliver globally on our assets. The RML plays a key role in the Medical organization by serving as the Regional voice for their therapeutic area, and leverages capabilities and expertise to drive business objectives, resolve business matters, and optimize opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

Represent ICON and connect Global and Local

• Lead Global & Local (G&L) strategic integration by representing market needs, translating global direction into actionable regional plans, and ensuring country insights meaningfully shape Global strategies.
• Partner closely with Global Medical Product Leads (MPLs) and global cross functional working groups translating Global objectives into a Regional perspective that supports the commercialization of scientifically differentiated assets.
• Proactively seek timely and quality inputs and feedback from Local teams to inform clinical programs and commercialization strategies and represent & advocate for Regional and Local needs within Global settings.
• Serve as the central liaison between Global Medical and Country Medical leadership and business leaders in the region ensuring aligned communication, coordinated execution, and timely escalation of needs, risks, and strategic priorities.
• Drive cross market scientific collaboration by connecting local teams with Global Medical, facilitating best practice sharing, harmonizing implementation, and removing market roadblocks to enable seamless medical execution across regions.
• Understand and anticipate market and regional launch needs, synthesizing risks and opportunities, informing launch readiness governance, and resolving execution issues in partnership with global and local teams.
• Collaborate on lifecycle management strategies by identifying data gaps, informing prioritization, and ensuring market insights align with WW portfolio planning.

Evidence Generation

• Support clinical development in the region by working with Clinical Development, Clinical Operations and Country Medical on site and investigator engagement.
• Lead visibility and prioritization of market level evidence gaps as a key driver of Evidence Generation, guiding markets through non-interventional research (NIR) and Integrated Evidence Plan (IEP) processes, and steering regional discussions to ensure local evidence needs are fully reflected in medical plans.
• Identify opportunities for collaborative studies and engage with innovative platforms, engaging Global Medical, Medical Evidence Generation (MEG), Scientific Collaborations & Alliances, Digital Health, and other stakeholders to expand evidence generation impact.

Work as One BMS

• Partner across the regional matrix, including the ICON Regional Medical Head, Country Medical Heads and market medical teams, to keep priorities aligned and escalate needs and risks early.
• Foster strong relationships across Medical (including Medical Communications, MEG and Medical Engagement Excellence) and with cross-functional teams (including Commercial, Regulatory, Market Access and HEOR) to ensure cohesive medical strategy execution and consistent engagement with regional and global partners. Promote collaboration, inclusiveness, and budget accountability to optimize delivery of medical objectives across markets.

Qualifications & Experience

• Advanced degree preferred (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MD); 10+ years of relevant bio-pharmaceutical industry experience, including Medical Affairs or Development. Neuroscience, psychiatry or neurology experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge of clinical research, drug development and evidence generation, including real-world evidence. Able to communicate data clearly and credibly to stakeholders.  
• Ability to influence across a matrix, with emotional intelligence, curiosity, and skills in proactively building and maintaining key relationships.
• Working knowledge of the clinical research and healthcare environment in ICON.
• Experience in program and project management: setting deliverables, tracking milestones and budget, and making tradeoffs.
• Experience supporting clinical trials, including site identification, investigator engagement, and patient recruitment facilitation.
• Strong strategic mindset with analytical skills, and an understanding of global dynamics and key markets. Ability to work independently in a fast-moving and increasingly complex environment.
• Strong cross-cultural communication skills and the ability to adapt to different audiences and markets across ICON.

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Princeton - NJ - US: $207,490 - $251,433

The starting pay range(s) listed above is for full-time employees (FTE). You may also be eligible for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities. We determine starting pay thoughtfully – carefully considering the nature of the role, required skills, work location, schedule and the knowledge and experience you bring. Final compensation is guided by pay equity principles and applicable employment laws. Compensation programs are reviewed on an ongoing basis and may be adjusted over time to reflect evolving market factors, and individual, team or Company performance.

Benefits:

Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, you may be eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefit plans – including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and insurance offerings (medical, dental, vision, life and disability).

U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off (FTO), which provides paid time off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, along with 11 paid company holidays each year.

Non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico receive 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires (subject to manager approval), 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.

Depending on eligibility, employees may also have access to additional time-off benefits, including paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs. Eligible employees also enjoy an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

U.S.-based job seekers can explore full benefit offerings at https://careers.bms.com/benefits

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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