Senior Manager, Budget Development, Investigator Payment Management (IPM)

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 Senior Payment Manager of Budget Development serves as the subject matter expert in the clinical trial budget development function. This position interacts interdepartmentally with Global Clinical Operations (GCO), Investigator Contracts Management (ICM), and Data Management teams for clinical study budget development. The Senior Manager of Clinical Budget Development is expected to identify and resolve issues that arise to ensure budgets are compliant with study protocol requirements, are aligned with overall study budget projections and consistent with the Fair Market Value (FMV) benchmarking tool (Grants Manager) pricing and thus reflecting the overall financial requirements to support BeiGene’s clinical trials.

Essential Functions of the job:

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

• Influences and effectively partners with Clinical Operations to build global clinical site study budgets in compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, and objectives.

• 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.

• Serve as the first line 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 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:

• Act as escalation point for all IPM assigned studies.

• 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.

• Leads change efforts by developing cross team change management strategy in partnership with senior leadership.

• Confidently experiments in new situations or when faced with unprecedented opportunities, instilling excitement, and assuredness in others about what can be accomplished.

• Organizes and prioritizes multiple initiatives across teams; sets clear plans for delivery.

• Good organizational and time management skills.

• Excellent communication / writing skills.

• Self-motivation with the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.

• Works well independently and in a team environment.

• Detail and process oriented.

• Positive attitude and approach.

• Expertise in clinical cost benchmarking tools and CPT codes.

• Public speaking - comfortable in delivering instruction to small -medium size groups.

• Strong networking abilities and an ability/willingness to work with internal and external stakeholders across the globe.

• Measure project performance using app