Senior Director, Business Transformation

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:

Responsible for driving transformation initiatives across the enterprise to enhance productivity, competitiveness, and adaptability to evolving market conditions. This involves analyzing current processes, technologies, and strategies, and developing transformation plans with a focus on financial and operational efficiency, operating model enhancements, and capability building.  The incumbent will collaborate with key stakeholders to align objectives and communicate the vision for change throughout the organization.  As a Business Transformation Senior Director, you will also translate the vision to an implementation plan, oversee the execution of these plans, monitor progress, mitigate risks, and adjust strategies as needed to ensure successful implementation. Success in this role is leading the company towards achieving its strategic objectives and staying agile in a rapidly changing business landscape.

Responsibilities require an understanding of business processes and outcomes and the ability to identify a pragmatic and timely approach for improvement. You must have excellent communication skills as you interact with a wide cross-section of people to change the way a business functions.

The incumbent will provide leadership, strategic direction, and project management to the overall program.  Responsibilities include innovating and taking ideas from concept to implementation and influencing executives and other key decision makers by leveraging experience and logical approach to problem solving.  In addition, the incumbent will lead through influence and rolling-up your sleeves in working with cross functional stakeholders in a matrixed environment.

Essential Functions of the job:

• Leads the development and alignment of initiatives to strategic objectives.  Develop and lead cross-functional teams in brainstorming new processes and approaches, creating prototypes, proposed process improvement measures, or new capabilities for enterprise growth.  

• Plan, manage and coordinate activities to ensure that business change is robustly managed such that implementation is effective and timely and drives high business value.

• Engage in thought-partnership with functional business unit leaders to accelerate business performance initiatives and create Lean processes.

• Provide consultative advice and support to drive change management initiatives and associated communication programs

• Creates and manages project work plans, including tasks, phases, dependencies, critical paths, resource needs.

• Identifies, documents, manages/prioritizes, and resolves/mitigates project issues and risks. Ensures delivery of and maximizes project business benefits/return on investment.

• Identifies, monitors and communicates project status, milestones and deliverables, ensuring successful delivery.

• Monitors project deliverable quality.

• Adjusts and adapts to the rolling, day-to-day changes that transpire in the running of large projects.

• Effectively communicate in verbal and written venues to Executive leaders to present strategic opportunities, align to strategy/goals/objectives, define business cases, report status and develop strategic roadmaps that clearly articulate the journey toward improved process or business goals.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Project Management: Plan and oversee the execution of transformation projects, including setting goals, defining project scopes, allocating resources, managing timelines, and communicating progress/milestones.

• Change Management: Lead and facilitate change management efforts by ensuring all stakeholders are engaged, informed, and supported throughout the transformation process.

• Strategic Planning: Develop and execute comprehensive business transformation strategies that align with the organization's goals and objectives.

• Process Optimization: Analyze existing business processes, identify areas for improvement, and implement changes to streamline operations and increase efficiency.

• Data Analysis: Utilize data-driven insights to make informed decisions, monitor progress, and measure the success of transformation efforts.

• Risk Assessment: Identify potential risks and obstacles to transformation success, deve