Therapeutic Area Head, Psychiatry & Neuroscience Portfolio

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.

What if your next role could genuinely change the way mental health and neurological conditions are treated in the UK?

Not incrementally. Not theoretically. But tangibly - through the strategies you set, the science you champion, and the patients who reach treatments they otherwise wouldn't have accessed.

That's the reality of this role.

We're looking for an exceptional medical leader to take the helm of our Psychiatry & Neuroscience portfolio - someone who sees Medical Affairs not as a support function, but as the strategic engine of meaningful change. If you've spent your career building towards a role where your expertise shapes both the pipeline and the healthcare system around it, this is the moment.

This is your seat at the table

As Therapeutic Area Head for Psychiatry & Neuroscience, you'll sit at the heart of our Medical Leadership Team - not as a contributor to strategy, but as someone who helps write it. Your thinking will directly influence how Medical as a function evolves, what it prioritises, and how it positions itself for the future.

You'll lead a team of Medical Advisors and field medical professionals, taking full accountability for the Psychiatry & Neuroscience medical strategy across both in-line assets and a genuinely exciting pipeline. From early engagement through to launch and beyond, you'll have the breadth of influence that most medical leaders only get glimpses of.

This is the kind of scope that accelerates careers - yours and those of the talented people you'll bring with you.

The work that will define this chapter

You won't be executing someone else's plan here. You'll be building it.

You'll shape therapeutic area strategy across the full asset lifecycle - with a particular focus on early engagement and pre-launch excellence. That means getting to the science early, asking the right clinical and access questions before others are even asking them, and positioning the organisation to win where it matters most: for patients living with some of the most complex and underserved conditions in medicine.

You'll lead evidence generation strategy, including real-world evidence and digital approaches - ensuring that when assets reach HTA and regulatory milestones, the data story is compelling, credible, and complete. Your fingerprints will be on submissions that determine patient access in conditions where unmet need remains profound.

And you'll be the medical leader who shapes the external environment, not just responds to it.

Engaging proactively with NHS England, NICE, mental health and neuroscience policy, and national transformation programmes - including NHS Long Term Plan priorities around mental health - you'll be out in front, anticipating change and helping position Medical to influence it.

The partnerships that make this extraordinary

Great outcomes in Psychiatry & Neuroscience don't happen in silos, and neither does great medical strategy. In this role, you'll build and lead genuine partnerships - with KOLs, patient advocacy groups, academic centres of excellence, and healthcare system leaders - co-creating solutions that improve patient pathways and access in a real, lasting way.

The voice of patients living carries particular weight; you'll ensure those voices are meaningfully embedded in the strategies you build and champion.

Internally, you'll be the bridge between Medical, Commercial, Market Access and the broader matrix - ensuring that integrated strategies are built on scientific credibility and delivered with commercial clarity. You'll be the voice that brings those worlds together.

This is rare. The ability to work at that intersection, with full respect from every stakeholder around the table, is something you'll carry with you for the rest of your career.

The people you'll grow - and the leader you'll become

One of the most rewarding parts of this role? The people.

You'll lead, coach and develop a team of talented Medical Advisors, helping them grow their capabilities, deepen their scientific thinking, and build the skills they'll need for tomorrow's Medical landscape. You'll be the kind of leader who shapes careers, and the culture you build will outlast any single product cycle.

At the same time, as a core member of the Medical Leadership Team, you'll have visible, enterprise-level impact - contributing to departmental direction, building future-ready capabilities, and demonstrating the full strategic value that Medical can and should bring to an organisation.

Who you are

You're a medical professional, likely a registered physician or UK registered pharmacist, with an advanced scientific degree and substantial Medical Affairs experience, ideally in Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Neurology, or a closely related area.

You've worked in a large market, you understand the full product lifecycle, and you've been close enough to HTA, pre-launch planning and evidence generation to know what excellent looks like.

Ideally, you've held final signatory responsibility and have a strong working knowledge of the ABPI Code.

But beyond the credentials, you're someone who:

Believes deeply in the strategic value Medical brings, and wants to prove it at scale

Leads with purpose, combining personal accountability with a genuine passion for patient outcomes

Thrives in complexity, translating scientific nuance, including the distinct challenges of CNS drug development and access, into clear, actionable strategy

Inspires teams rather than directs them, building capability through coaching, inclusion and trust

Looks outward, staying ahead of system change, policy shifts, and the rapidly evolving Psychiatry & Neuroscience landscape

Why now? Why here?

Because the pipeline is genuinely exciting, and the science of psychiatry and neuroscience is at an inflection point. Because the organisation is committed to Medical being a true strategic partner. And because this is a moment where the right leader can leave a mark, on the business, on the NHS, and most importantly, on patients living with conditions that have for too long been undertreated and underserved.

You'll have the seniority, the scope, and the support to do something that matters.

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We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working .

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