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Job Description:

He/she will be missioned to lead advocacy activities to bring innovation to patients by understanding and responding to their needs for their quality of life, learning, medical solutions in BMS’s prioritized therapeutic areas. Advocacy is also aimed at positioning BMS as a reliable partner to those patients, their families, healthcare communities and society, earning recognition as a patient centric bio-pharmaceutical company. He/she will be a seasoned external affair professional, with strong strategy and execution ability, caring to vulnerable people, proficiency in Japanese and English, and people skills.

Main Responsibilities:

• Strategize a patient advocacy program beginning with mapping out (and refreshing) partnering organizations, building relationship, seizing patient needs, then tailor-making impactful projects for identified PAGs, with a collaboration with business units, medical affairs team, and R&D.

• Fill gaps in disease/treatment awareness among patients, their families and society as well as to empower patients for their QOL. Also, support PPI and BMS’s incorporating insights of patients into its planning and operation of clinical trial, medical affairs, commercial and communications.

• Act as a reliable and proactive focal point of PAGs and execute collaborative projects to amplify voices of patients for realizing advocacy goals.

• Set goals of each advocacy project, manage and present progress and outcomes to senior leaders to gain their feedback to refine the projects.

• Leverage advocacy projects and collaboration with PAGs for profiling BMS as a champion of patients to stakeholders.

• Work closely with global patient advocacy teams on the execution of global or trans-regional assignments.

• Facilitate educational initiatives for BMSKK colleagues, inviting patient(s) at the timing of global campaigns and major internal events.

• Plan and properly manage corporate giving to allocate the fund to most impactful areas as well as support CSR programs.

• Assist and collaborate with other Corporate Affairs team members on the planning and execution of engagement events.

• Contribute to enterprise communications concerning disease and patients as Japan activities.

• Manage contractor(s) and external partners if needed. Handle other duties as assigned.

Skills/Knowledge Required:

• Strong passion, integrity and resilience for patient advocacy

• Experience in the external affairs arena in an agency, corporation, or NGO in the pharmaceutical industry on the local and international level.

• Basic knowledge of patient access issues and methods.

• Knowledge of the pharma industry in Japan, with an understanding of Compliance and Regulatory that impact advocacy and communications

• Strong organizational agility: ability to work cross-functionally across a growing and matrix organization, and engaging with multiple internal stakeholders

• Ability to work in a global and culturally diverse environments

• Ability to work and interact with senior internal and external stakeholders

• Excellent tactical execution skills, ability to multitask

• High level of English / Japanese communication

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.

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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.

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Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb

Req Number: R1579799

Updated: 2024-05-04 01:22:13.806 UTC

Location: Chiyoda-ku-JPN

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