Vice President, Corporate Quality

Vice President, Corporate Quality

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This global executive role shapes and drives the Corporate Quality vision, delivering strategic leadership and enterprise-wide quality and compliance across Bristol Myers Squibb. As a trusted advisor to senior leadership, the VP ensures alignment with business goals and global regulations, proactively managing quality risks and opportunities. The VP owns the global Quality Management System (QMS), championing its effectiveness and continuous improvement throughout the product lifecycle—from R&D to commercialization.

Responsibilities include leading Quality Governance, setting enterprise KPIs, and overseeing SOPs, training, and digital quality systems (including GxP AI governance). With a forward‑looking approach, this leader engages regulators and industry peers, anticipates emerging requirements, and ensures BMS remains inspection‑ready and compliant. The role provides expert oversight for internal operations and external partners, guiding remediation and regulatory communications. Reporting directly to the Chief Quality Officer (CQO), this position is a key member of the Global Quality Leadership Team.

• Establishes and oversees a unified, process‑centric QMS that spans the entire product lifecycle, ensuring continuous improvement, fit‑for‑purpose solutions, and simplification. Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing effectiveness of the global QMS in alignment with regulatory expectations across all enterprise functions. Drive Enterprise Quality Governance by setting quality metrics and KPIs to monitor performance and sustain improvement.
• Builds and develops a cross‑divisional Global Process Owner Network that will develop and sustain the QMS working collaboratively with senior leaders across R&D, GPDS and Commercial.
• Oversees SOP governance, document control, training programs, data integrity and electronic quality systems (including AI governance).
• Designs and implements internal processes and communication mechanisms to assess emerging global regulatory expectations for impact on the organization and the overall BMS quality management system, to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Communicates effectively and builds cooperative and supportive working relationships across the Divisions and with external partners on quality, compliance and regulatory matter. Interfaces with members of the Divisional Leadership teams and the Quality Leadership Team. Engages and presents to BMS Leadership Team, CEO and BoD Board of Directors at the request and direction of CQO.
• Oversees and leads quality and compliance risk management initiatives to minimize risk and potential impact of quality and/or non‑compliance events to the company. Builds and deploys Culture of Excellence plans to improve a culture of Quality across BMS.
• Ensures proactive quality and compliance oversight and adherence to QMS across internal operations and external partners through risk‑based approaches, global inspection readiness, and independent audit.
• Provides quality and compliance expertise and oversight in support of significant compliance remediation, Health Authority inspection responses and actions, and regulatory communications including FARs, BPDRs, DPRs, etc.
• Actively engages with regulators and industry peers, representing BMS across industry and regulatory QMS forums to drive/leverage best practices, shares knowledge and industry/regulatory trends designed to continuously improve the QMS at BMS.
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