The latest interview in the DCAT Alliance for Industry Women Committee’s Women Leaders in Pharma: An Interview Series features Ilka Noack, Director of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs at ChemCon GmbH. Read her interview here.    

Catalina Vargas is Senior Vice President and Global Supply Chain (GSC) Lead at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS). A global pharmaceutical executive with more than 20 years of experience, Catalina currently leads a team of more than 600 employees working to seamlessly deliver medicines to patients in more than 50 countries around the world.  

Prior to her current role, Catalina was Chief of Staff to the CEO of BMS where she led important established strategic enterprise-wide initiatives. Catalina has an exceptional record of building high performing and agile global teams, and she is a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion. In her Chief of Staff role, she led BMS’ diversity and inclusion commitments which included areas such as clinical trial diversity, health equity, workforce representation, employee giving and supplier diversity. She also led BMS Simplification, an initiative designed to reduce the complexity in enterprise processes and to improve of employees’ day-to-day experiences and simplify ways of working.  

Catalina joined BMS in 2018 as Vice President, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement, Global Product Development and Supply, where she managed a complex supply chain to bring critical medicines to patients. During her time in this role, she successfully integrated the Celgene and BMS sourcing and procurement groups. 

Prior to joining BMS, Catalina was with Pfizer for 18 years, where she was tapped for progressive leadership positions across strategic sourcing, global procurement and external manufacturing.  

Born and educated in Colombia, Catalina has a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and a graduate degree in finance and capital markets.

The Women Leaders in Pharma: An Interview Series provides employees of DCAT Member Companies with the opportunity to hear from women industry leaders on a variety of timely and relevant topics.    

In each interview, the women leaders from various DCAT Member Companies share their insights on career development, leadership, mentoring, networking, and more. The interviews are published at least once every other month, and the full listing of interviews can be found here.    

About the Alliance for Industry Women Committee    
DCAT’s Alliance for Industry Women Committee aims to educate, inspire, and empower women in the pharmaceutical industry. DCAT Member Company employees can join the Alliance for Industry Women LinkedIn group to engage in dialogue and share relevant information and resources with industry colleagues.