Senior Site Partnership Leader

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.

General Description:

The Sr. Site Partnership Leader (SPL) is a regional clinical and business development leader who is responsible for developing and managing strategic partnerships with sites and site networks that conduct clinical trials. The Sr. SPL will proactively manage the customer relationship and optimizes the cooperation with selected trial sites/networks to improve performance in clinical studies (phase I-IV, regional, local).

The goal is to make BeiGene the partner of choice for partner sites (both present and future) in clinical trials by working collaboratively across various local and global departments within BeiGene (Medical Affairs, Training, Compliance, Contract and Budget Office, Feasibility, Clinical Science and Clinical Development.)

The Sr SPL is a strategic partner to the Clinical Study Teams (CST) to plan and execute clinical trials at partner sites and serves as liaison with operational partnership sites/networks to promote continued, mutually beneficial enhancements.

Essential Functions of the job:

• Prepare and implement Site Partnership Strategic Plan in cooperation with assigned study sites/networks in alignment with BeiGene Global Site Engagement strategy, liaising with Medical Affairs, Clin Sci and Clin Dev when appropriate.  Identify and establish new strategic partnerships with sites and site networks interested in or currently participating in BeiGene clinical trials.
• Conduct regular governance meetings with preset agendas to drive robust meetings.  Output will include follow-up minutes and actions that inform each organization while enhancing the relationship.
• Oversee and support partnership site Key Performance Indicators.  KPI ownership will include standard study performance metrics such as general enrollment/recruitment numbers, timelines and quality as well as partnership level KPIs.
• Regularly follow-up on action items identified in governance meetings and oversee/work with clinical study teams and partner sites to resolve respective outstanding action items.
• Support and optimize study start up timelines as well as achievement of committed patient numbers in partner sites.
• Be a single point of contact for the relevant external stakeholders (e.g., departments heads, investigators, pharmacists, clinic administration).
• Responsibility to bundle all information regarding the assigned sites/networks, to oversee all study activities, and to survey sites´ strengths, areas of improvement and trial capacity.
• Support sites to develop their network with other departments to improve study startup, patient management, and recruitment.
• Support negotiation of study fees, contracts, contract templates and other templates as applicable.

• Optimize BeiGene processes with the goal to simplify and speed up study start-up with focus on site set-up.
• Guides and oversees partner site activities regarding overarching topics, in particular execution of the partner site/network Strategic Plan.
• Identify, and escalate as necessary, key partner site challenges and develop appropriate cross-functional mitigation plans.
• Act as a single point of contact within Americas Region GCO and influence cross-functional collaboration within the Americas Region GCO team (e.g., COMs, CTAs, SSU, Contracting, Quality & Compliance) as well as the medical affairs (e. g. FMDs, MSLs) and other BeiGene departments (e. g. legal, finance, QA) for assigned sites.
• Responsible for engagement strategy in assigned country/region(s).
• Manages site trends through dashboard review and ongoing risk assessment to ensure quality standards and address concerns associated with study delivery at sites.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Provides oversight management for assigned portfolio of operational partnership sites/networks and those of direct report staff.
• Provides management, mentoring and oversight of junior staff and support site visits, as needed.
• Develops training plan(s) for junior staffs and related team members.
• Assists with the identification of development opportunities for junior team members.
• Provides necessary training to CST clinical staff and support site visits, as needed

Computer Skills: Efficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook

Other Qualifications:

• Understands clinical trial processes with a thorough knowledge of ICH and associated regulatory guidelines
• Experience in business developme