Senior Director/Executive Director, Chief of Staff to the General Manager North America

BeiGene, Ltd. has proposed to change its name to BeOne Medicines Ltd. The new name is subject to shareholder approval and, once approved, use of the name will be phased in over 2025. There may be instances where “BeiGene” or “BeOne” are used to describe the company during this transition period. BeOne 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.

The Chief of Staff is a high-visibility, strategic partner that supports the General Manager North America and senior leadership team by managing the team's priorities, overseeing staff/internal operations, and leading/project managing key initiatives. This role supports the GM North America with thought partnership and preparation and management of senior-level meetings based on goal attainment and thoughtful calendar management. The Chief of Staff helps develop the organizational and communication framework for staff, stakeholders, and leadership team members to implement the commercial vision and ensure the growth and success of the organization. 
 
As a member of the leadership team, this role requires you to be flexible and able to adapt to the changing needs of the organization, working together with the GM North America to drive continuous improvement in team collaboration, communication, and organizational maturity. This role is critical in anticipating issues, analyzing strategic, business, and operational challenges and opportunities, formulating solutions and ensuring key projects and initiatives are progressed quickly and to a high standard and striving to achieve: 

• Focus CNALT efforts on top strategic, operational and performance drivers 

• Data-driven decision-making; and 

• Strong internal and cross-functional relationships and alignment with senior-level stakeholders 

• Colleagues and stakeholders are informed, engaged and motivated 

Essential Functions of the job:  

• Act as an advisor to and extension of the GM North America and Core North America LT (CNALT) and North America LT (NALT) 

• Support the GM North America with thought partnership on key initiatives 

• Ensure meeting agendas surface and progress critical business needs, drive strategy, and enable alignment and decision-making across the commercial and regional leadership teams 

• Draft meeting minutes and track action items 

• Create and support the development of compelling presentations for the GM North America across a range of topics including Board Meetings, internal business updates, Town Halls, and presentations to non-commercial functions  

• Triage requests and act as a liaison between the GM North America, other executives, their LT’s, and stakeholders to ensure consistent communication and involvement or decision-making at the proper time 

• Collaborate with executive-level management in the development of performance goals and long-term operational plans 

• Listen for and identify connection points and opportunities for agreement across organizations to bring the right stakeholders to the table and drive a coordinated approach 

• Anticipate, identify and then facilitate resolution of issues between departments and across functional lines pertaining to projects, strategic priorities and team dynamics 

• Collaborate effectively with the Office of the CEO, Board, CMAC, GCMLT, GPTs, GHILT. GCSO, Global Medical, Investor Relations, Business Development, Manufacturing, and other LTs and Functions as needed. 

• Support the communication and rollout of the Global Commercial & Medical LT, global commercial operations and shared service models to ensure market alignment, awareness and buy-in 

• Drive consistent communication and collaboration within the LTs and across the organization 

• Partner with corporate communications teams on delivering key messages 

• Work with the leadership team and delegates to design and execute cultural initiatives and events to bring colleagues together, share priorities and updates, build common knowledge and celebrate successes 

• Establish and maintain a work environment that supports learning, respect, open communication, collaboration, integration, and teamwork 

• Oversee the design, organization and execution of leadership offsite events 

• Ensure key CNALT activities and events include culture and team builders, focus on achieving long term and short term goals, advancement of key strategic initiatives, operational performan