Senior Specialist, Patient Operations – Apheresis

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.

Senior Specialist, Patient Operations – Apheresis is accountable to manage onboarding and on-going performance of Apheresis Centers used for BMS Clinical and Commercial Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell Therapies. This role will serve as the technical operations single point of contact for Apheresis Centers located within the designated region of APAC.

This role will be based out of the corporate offices in Tokyo, Japan. Travel up to 30% of time within Japan and Asian Pacific region may be required.

Come join BMS for this unique opportunity to be part of the team building a leading edge Clinical and Commercial CAR T Platform that serves our patients with novel BMS CAR T Therapies.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Develop and foster relationships with Apheresis Center Staff for assigned region.
• Work with Clinical and Commercial CAR T teams to establish the apheresis collection footprint to support the clinical trial and commercial site plans for assigned region/country.
• Coordinate with internal teams and collection site staff to ensure all collection site onboarding activities are successfully completed and sites are prepared to perform collections for BMS within the required timelines.
• Communicate collection site on-boarding status to Clinical and Commercial teams and develop and execute mitigation plans for any delayed timelines.
• Perform technical site assessments and train collection center staff on BMS collection requirements and attend site audits as required
• Provide Quality Systems support by participating in deviation activities and impact/investigation assessments for cell collection centers.
• Work with Quality Assurance and other internal business partners to monitor and assess vendor performance and capacity after site launch.
• Manage rollout of process changes to assigned sites.
• Collect VOC (voice of customer) and VOB (voice of business) feedback used for continuous operations improvement
• Collect and enter data into electronic data management systems
• Represent the department on cross-functional project teams, as requested.
• Comply with applicable SOP’s and regulations.

Qualifications and Experience Requirements:

• Ability to rapidly solve problems and deal with organizational complexity
• Ability to prioritize and complete work with sense of urgency based on criticality
• Medical, scientific and clinical knowledge
• Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards
• High attention to detail skills
• High organization skills with ability to multi-task several tasks in parallel
• Required Undergraduate Degree (in Medical, Life Sciences or Engineering preferred)
• Required minimum 5 years of experience in a regulated environment either hospital or pharmaceutical/biotech
• Required English proficiency at a beginner-business level or higher (TOEIC score of 650 or above)

Preferred but not required:

• Medical professionals (nurses, pharmacists, clinical laboratory technicians, clinical engineers, etc.)
• Experience working in Apheresis, Cellular Therapy or Stem Cell Transplant programs
• Prior customer facing role in pharmaceutical/biotech industry
• Experience as a Clinical Research Associate (CRA)
• Experience in training healthcare professionals

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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