Executive Director, Digital & AI Enablement

BeiGene continues to grow at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals. When considering candidates, we look for scientific and business professionals who are highly motivated, collaborative, and most importantly, share our passionate interest in fighting cancer.

BeiGene is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative drug therapies for the treatment of cancer. Global Technology Solutions (GTS) serves the BeiGene organization with infrastructure, systems, and services that provide the foundation, maturity, governance, and innovation needed to serve patients around world. BeiGene takes the approach that access to life-changing medicine sees no borders, and technology affects this perspective by delivering a cloud-based backbone and SaaS systems for efficient delivery, growth, and maintenance, while positioning our staff to demonstrate their domain, technical, and governance expertise as partners of the BeiGene global team.

General Description:

The Executive Director, Digital & AI Enablement is responsible for leveraging artificial intelligence and digital tools to drive innovation and efficiency across the organization. This role involves developing and implementing enterprise AI strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring the successful integration of AI/ML technologies to enhance business processes applying principles of innovation and efficiency.

As a member of the GTS Leadership Team, the Executive Director, Digital & AI Enablement is an active contributor to developing and executing BeiGene’s technology strategy, defining necessary technology investments, and driving transparency in prioritization and planning. The Executive Director and their team are responsible for ensuring that strategy is fully aligned with business needs, positioning technology services to deliver and realize compelling business value.

The successful candidate is a dynamic leader and business relationship manager who brings deep digital and AI strategy domain knowledge with a business-minded approach to running technology projects.  Deep experience in both on premise and cloud/SaaS environments, the ability to manage multiple projects across different functions in a global, geographically diverse environment are all critical success factors for this role. An ideal candidate will adapt communication and problem-solving skills to accommodate customers, partners, and staff to reach consensus, and build stakeholder relationships to ensure solution landscape supports the operations of a modern biopharmaceutical environment.

Essential Functions of the job:

AI Strategy Development

• Develop and implement AI strategies that align with the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Identify opportunities for AI-driven innovation and process improvement.
• Partners closely with Office of CEO to develop digital/AI solutions.
• Partners with global functional teams to develop and execute an integrated AI technology strategy focused on value and driving efficiency in our drug development programs
• Ensures synergy across regions/functions on technology strategy – app rationalization and architecture
• Develops a AI strategy in harmony with the enterprise data strategy that supports effective, ethical use of AI technologies.

Project Management

• Lead AI enablement projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.
• Effectively communicate status, value, and importance of various digital and AI programs and projects to executive members, business stakeholders, and technical teams.

Technical Implementation

• Work with data scientists, engineers, and IT teams to design and deploy AI models and solutions.
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of AI applications.
• Liaise with vendors, technology partners, audit, and compliance to coordinate system implementation and change activities

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Chair the executive AI steering committee for strategic decisions and roadmap related to AI in the enterprise.
• Partner with various departments (e.g., marketing, operations, finance) to understand their needs and provide AI solutions.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and training sessions to enhance AI literacy across the organization.

Performance Monitoring and Optimization

• Monitor the performance of AI systems and identify areas for improvement.
• Implement feedback loops to continuously enhance AI models and algorithms.

Research and Development