Senior Corporate Counsel – Digital and Technology, Regulatory Law

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

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Summary:

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to support BMS’s Digital Health Team on new and innovative initiatives and solutions to better service patients. In this role, you will lead the legal support, including directly advising, educating BMS colleagues, staying current on evolving global regulatory, legal and policy environment for BMS’ work with digital solutions, including regulated patient and physician-facing digital health solutions (e.g., digital medicine and digital therapeutics) such as mobile applications, diagnostic algorithms, digital biomarkers, use of artificial intelligence and clinical decision support solutions. These digital solutions span across the BMS value chain from clinical trials to manufacturing, to commercialization and market access. 

This is a key role within the Law Department’s Regulatory Law group and the individual must be able to advise a multi-dimensional client group consisting of commercialization, development, IT, and other enabling functions, as well as liaise across the Law Department with other subject matter experts. 

Expertise in Digital Health: The individual will be required to gain and maintain expertise in the rapidly evolving and complex framework of global laws and regulations that impact the development of digital health solutions, including:

  • Anti-kickback statute/Anti-bribery and Corruption
  • Product liability
  • Advertising and promotion of healthcare technology
  • Consumer data and protection issues (including experience with FTC issues on data usage and consumer data)
  • Health information privacy and security (HIPAA/GDPR) compliance 
  • Market access and reimbursement (Medicare/Medicaid)
  • Specific experience in telehealth and structuring compliant provider arrangements. 
  • Medical Device regulations (including software as a medical device)
  • Artificial intelligence laws, regulations, and guidelines

Development of Policies, Practices, and Companywide Learning: The individual will be required to support internal and external policy and advocacy initiatives advancing laws and regulations in this space, including the development of policies and procedures within BMS in conjunction with the BMS Compliance & Ethics group. 

The individual will also be responsible for leading the development of learning materials for business colleagues relating to the appropriate use and creation of digital health tools. 

Practical, Solution-Oriented Counseling: The role will provide legal advice on quick moving projects allowing teams to apply appropriate real-time guidance across the enterprise to advance BMS’s digital work. 

Law Department Collaboration and Education: The role will need to collaborate closely with relevant subject matter experts across the Law Department and Compliance & Ethics to ensure functional understanding of key areas identified above and to gain advice from those experts where additional advice from a particular Law Department expert is required.

This role will also be responsible for education and training across the law department on topics related to digital health to equip therapeutic area, deal, contract, and market lawyers to identify digital health related issues and pull in the Digital Health Legal attorney for additional support.

Qualifications

  • Experience and familiarity with privacy laws and regulations is a plus but is not required.
  • A law degree from a US Law School
  • 7-10+ Years of experience working on digital (preferred), commercial, regulatory and/or R&D issues for pharmaceutical, life sciences, medical devices and/or technology companies, preferably with a law firm that advises companies in highly regulated industries or in-house at a pharmaceutical or biotech or medical device company
  • Excellent judgement, time management, communication, and cross functional collaboration skills required.
  • Experience working on digital health initiatives.
  • Experience and familiarity with privacy laws and regulations is a plus but is not required.

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.

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

Any data processed in connection with role applications will be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and regulations.

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