Associate Scientific Director

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: Associate Director, Process Scale-Up & Manufacturing Readiness Location: Hyderabad, India Working with Us At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees continually 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 Associate Director, Process Scale-Up & Manufacturing Readiness serves as a technical leader responsible for assessing, de-risking, and enabling the successful scale-up of clinical drug substance manufacturing processes from laboratory scale through pilot plant and manufacturing scale implementation. This role provides strategic and hands-on expertise in chemical engineering, technology transfer, process scale-up, safe process implementation, and GMP process operations across our growing network of external manufacturing partners located in Asia. This individual will be based out of the Hyderabad BMS office and will serve as the Person in Plant (PIP) with our Asian Contract Development and Management Organizations (CDMOs). They will collaborate closely with internal colleagues based in US and/or Europe across chemistry, engineering, manufacturing, and quality to translate laboratory science into reliable, safe, and executable manufacturing processes at scale. The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in small molecule processes and GMP manufacturing, with experience in other modalities (ADCs, oligonucleotides, peptides, radiopharmaceuticals) viewed as a significant advantage. Additionally, the successful candidate will possess excellent communication skills, the ability to frequently travel to CDMO manufacturing sites, and have prior experience navigating CDMO technical relationships including the ability to strategically and tactically drive technical improvements. Responsibilities Influence manufacturing strategies across a large portfolio of projects while mentoring US- and European-based scientists and engineers to build organizational capabilities in scale-up and GMP manufacturing