Director, Clinical Trial Diversity, Clinical Operations

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:

Reporting to the Head of Americas, Clinical Operations, the Director - Clinical Trial Diversity, will lead BeiGene’s goals to increase global clinical trial diversity across BeiGene’s portfolio and pipeline assets. This leader will collaborate across various clinical operations and non-clinical operations functions in all regions to ensure clinical trials are optimized for diversity.  They should understand the patient journey, pain points and challenges to develop BeiGene strategies to best support patient needs. Also, the role will require significant work with cross-functional teams to support the development and execution of clinical trial diversity and health equity strategy created in alignment with Corporate Affairs and Human Resources.

As the clinical operations representative for BeiGene working on health equity and diversity in clinical trials, this role will build trust with internal and external stakeholders through active engagement, thoughtful communication, and consistency over time. This role will work actively and directly with the Clinical Operations, Regulatory, Clinical Development, and Human Resources to support their efforts to advance recruitment, reach BeiGene’s diversity goals and share our pipeline externally. Additionally, this role is essential to help establish and maintain BeiGene’s reputation with Black, Indigenous and People of Color as well as Hispanic ethnic demographic in the cancer research community and position BeiGene as a company that centers the needs of all patients.

Essential Functions of the job:

• Oversees the execution of a multi-year clinical trial diversity and health-equity strategy, including but not limited to stakeholder mapping, clinical program prioritization, and budget management.
• Leads and consults strategic initiatives covering the design, development, oversight and continuous improvement of diversity strategy(ies) and plans across GCO.
• Creates and executes initiatives to identify and engage investigational sites to support diversity targets.
• Accountable to ensure goals/metrics within diversity plans are met with the enrollment of underrepresented patient population(s) in BeiGene trials.
• Works cross-functionally to ensure proper planning of inclusive clinical study protocols, providing feasibility feedback on regional site selection and patient allocation, and putting in place strategies to optimize trial diversity results
• Implements process and systems improvements to enhance awareness of the importance of diversity within clinical programs.
• Engages internal and external stakeholders to ensure cross-functional alignment and integration of information to ensure regulatory deliverables are achieved.
• Develops strategies to reduce patient burden through the integration of innovative, process, and strategic external engagements/partnerships.
• Maximizes business efficiency while maintaining quality/compliance and containing cost.
• Integrates feedback from Regulatory Agency(ies) into ongoing process improvement.
• Creates an environment which fosters transparency, information sharing, and integration of lessons learned to strengthen BeiGene’s operating model relative to enrollment of diverse populations in global clinical trials.
• Represents BeiGene as forward-looking partner and fosters collaboration with stakeholders.
• Develops strategies/policies and work instructions as it relates to Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Trials.
• Serve as the single point of contact for DEI leaders at clinical research sites.
• Maintain, steward, build and manage relationships, through in-person and virtual meetings, phone calls, and emails, with both sites and external organizations (e.g. Advocacy organizations, HBCUs, community-based organizations) in geographic locations applicable to our trial sites.
• Represent the Company’s interests on an ongoing basis through participation in relevant scientific and therapeutic area meetings, congresses, and committees as well as proactive outreach to organizations to expand our BeiGene reach in alignment with our expanding pipeline.
• Prepare communication materials and presentations to share BeiGene’s clinical trial diversity priorities internally and externally in support of the Company’s mission, in collaboration with Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, and Medical Affairs.
• Manage consultants and/or agencies, as needed, to deliver against the clinical trial patient