Scientist, Analytical Development

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 Summary As a Scientist on the Analytical Development Potency team at BMS, you will help advance analytical strategies that bring transformative therapies from the bench to patients. This hands‑on, autonomous role designs, develops, and executes complex potency cell‑based assays, flow cytometry workflows, and immunoassays. As a subject matter expert, you will lead method transfer and validation. Working with limited supervision in a cross‑functional environment, you will apply strong scientific judgment, communicate clearly, and contribute to project decisions and method implementation in GMP Analytical Development and Quality Control settings.

• Scientific Expertise & Strategy Applies broad expertise in analytical development and working knowledge, including awareness of technical advances impacting the field, to advance analytical strategies and project objectives. Proficient in scientific/technical data review and writing, including regulatory documents, protocols, and literature assessments to solve complex problems.
• Experimental Design & Execution Independently designs, executes, analyzes and evaluates hypothesis‑driven experiments; and based on interpretation of results, defines appropriate next steps. Interprets and communicates study results, ensures conclusions are scientifically rigorous, well documented, and actionable.
• Troubleshooting & Problem Solving Identifies, investigates, and resolves technical and method‑related challenges of moderate to high complexity through systematic troubleshooting and sound scientific judgment. Makes timely, tactical, data‑driven decisions with little to no direction from senior team members, including assay optimization for robustness, throughput, and reproducibility, identifying new solutions or developing procedures where none exist.
• Documentation & Data Integrity Performs data verification, data review, and documentation reviews across multiple methods and/or products. Authors, reviews, and revises technical documents such as SOPs, development reports, method validation reports.
• Method Expertise & Quality Serves as subject matter expert (SME) supporting method transfer, validation, and routine testing of in‑process, final product, and stability samples. Cross‑trained on multiple complex analytical methods and/or products. Owns project, deviation/investigation and continuous improvement efforts.
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation Contributes to continuous improvement initiatives and evaluates innovative technologies, approaches, and workflows that enhance analytical capability, efficiency, and data quality. Proactively identifies and resolves technical challenges, identifies solutions and contributes to the development of new approaches where no established procedure exists with minimal supervision.
• Leadership & Collaboration Serves as a technical point of contact or SME. May represent the team in internal and external meetings clearly communicating recommendations, risks, and results. Represents Analytical Development on cross‑functional program teams, building effective partnerships, and contributing scientific expertise to shared objectives. Trains others on multiple…