Manager, BEST Investigator Grants

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 Manager of Clinical Budgeting, Benchmarking and Pricing serves as a subject matter expert in the clinical trial site budgeting, benchmarking, and pricing function. This role will be responsible for developing site cost budget estimates and scenario modeling for BeiGene sponsored clinical trials (BEST). This position will drive the financial modeling and forecast for clinical site costs in addition to performing variance analysis between budgets created at the various stages for our clinical trials. The Manager interacts interdepartmentally with Global R&D Sourcing (GRDS), Global Clinical Operations (GCO), Investigator Contracts Management (ICM), and Data Management teams for clinical study budget development. Under the remit of this position includes performance of ad hoc analysis for clinical site costs as needed to support rapid decision making around study planning, development, and execution. Understanding Fair Market Value (FMV) and clinical benchmarks and pricing evaluation are critical components of this position.
 

Essential Functions of the job:

• Provides operational excellence, support, guidance, and training to teams on all aspects of global clinical budget development.

• Responsible for clinical benchmarking and site budget development.

• Perform Budget vs Actual (BvA) analysis to strive for accurate forecasts and site cost budget estimates for governance and decision making.

• Review site costs trends to develop internal benchmarks.

• Lead conversations with cross-functional leaders and partners to help inform the site costs budget development methodology.

• Influences and effectively partners with internal stakeholders to develop global clinical site study budgets in compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, and objectives.

• Help define inputs needed from industry benchmarks and other data sources to improve the robustness of the site costs financial budget development and financial models.

• May lead and manage clinical budget personnel including workload management, quality of deliverables and escalation of issues to management when needed.

• Develop, maintain, and train stakeholders on the global budget development documents and FMV tool assessments.

• As assigned, serve as a point of contact to stakeholders to provide strategic insights, when required, into budget building process with complex protocol situations and high priority studies.

• Independently creates global and region/country specific clinical trial budget templates, FMV benchmarks, etc. using clinical budget development tools and systems.

• Actively and effectively communicates status of budget build with key internal stakeholders in a timely manner.

• Effectively communicates issues to stakeholders that could impact project timelines or other aspects for Study Start Up (SSU).

• Works closely with GRDS, Clinical Operations, Contract Managers, Data Management to ensure successful development of study budgets.

• Develops the most current and transparent budget that is in-line with industry standards. Serve as a subject matter expert in medical/CPT code competencies across therapeutic areas.

• Applies United States Medicare Coverage Analysis (MCA) guidelines for applicable studies and have a solid understanding of MCA requirements.

• Ability to analyze budgets and identify costs drivers where applicable.

• Ability to review and analyze complex protocol amendments and determine budget impact.

• Identify and participate in ongoing process improvement initiatives including new templates and processes.

Additional Responsibilities and Requirements:

• Function as escalation point for all IPM assigned submission requests.

• Perform complex site costs analysis; draw relevant conclusions and implement appropriate solutions.

• Provide excellent customer service and timely site issue resolution.

• Act to create efficiencies across all studies, programs, and global site.

• Assist in the development and testing of CBO systems and standard processes.

• Assist with maintenance of training and other manuals for the Grant system.

• Identify and work to deploy process improvements.

• Support change efforts by developing cross team change management strategy in partnership with senior