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Position: Associate Director, Document ManagementLocation: Hyderabad, India

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Position Summary

Provide strategic oversight and tactical support for Document Management activities, including authoring, review coordination, approval, issuance, implementation, periodic review, and retirement of documents. Ensure the performance of both routine operations and strategic initiatives related to global and local documents, as well as APQRs, continuously improves to meet compliance needs and business priorities. Support the health and performance of electronic management systems in compliance with procedural guidelines. Balance stakeholder needs with priorities and ensure adherence to document procedures. Monitor review and approval processes to prevent deviations from global document management and health authority requirements. Manage compliance gaps and deviations from global processes. Develop forecasts, plans, and schedules to ensure timely document flow and completion reporting. Act as a liaison with the business to ensure accurate document content and compliance with health authority regulations. Provide leadership and coaching on current industry trends and quality systems management. Manage risk and uncertainty, implement contingency plans, and lead the team to meet goals while resolving complex issues. Use a risk-based approach to ensure compliance with procedural document regulations. Develop and monitor key performance indicators to identify and mitigate risks,and collect metrics to identify trends and take appropriate action. Communicate status updates to impacted business units.

Key Responsibilities

Provide strategy, oversight and tactical support of Document Management run the business activities including document authoring, coordination of review and comments resolution, approval, issuance, implementation, periodic review, and retirement.Ensure performance of run the business and strategic initiatives associated to global and local documents, and APQR’s continuously improve to meet compliance needs and business priorities.Support health and performance of associated electronic management systems in compliance with procedural guidelines.Manage stakeholder needs in balance to priorities and execution of document procedural adherence.Ensure up to date monitoring of review and approval ownership to prevent deviation of effectiveness for global document management and health authority requirement adherence.Manage events associated to findings of compliance gaps and deviation from global processes.Develop forecast, plan, and schedule that delivers timely flow of documents in and out of electronic system to include reporting and documenting completion as per governing procedures.Liaison with the business as the subject-matter expert to ensure accurate document content and compliance with health authority regulations and expectations.Provide leadership and coaching in relation to contemporary knowledge of current industry trends, standards, and methodologies as it relates to quality systems and management.Manage risk and uncertainty, and to anticipate the need for and implement contingency plans.Lead team to meet goals while resolving complex issuesExercise sound judgment, using a risk-based approach, to ensure compliance with procedural document regulations, practices, and policies.Develop, adjust, and monitor key performance indicators to identify and mitigate risk to business objectives.Monitor trends to develop continuous improvement objectives and revised contingency plans (as required)Collect metrics to identify trends and take appropriate action.Communicate up to date status to impacted business units

Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences (Chemistry, Biology) or Health Sciences.Post-graduate qualification preferred.A minimum of 7 years of pharmaceutical industry GMP experience and demonstrated leadership in Quality and/or Compliance discipline with in-depth knowledge of global health authorities’ regulations and requirements. Experience in a senior role with product quality complaints involving global teams and globally distributed products is requiredFluent in English, with proven professional working proficiency in English for reading, writing and speaking, including the ability to deliver clear and articulate presentationsCommitment to Quality

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Why You Should Apply

Around the world, we are passionate about making an impact on the lives of patients with serious diseases. Empowered to apply our individual talents and diverse perspectives in an inclusive culture, our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes 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.

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 an inclusive culture, promoting diversity 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 a diverse 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.

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. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

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