Director, Business and Strategic Operations, Global 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.

BeiGene is a rapidly growing next-generation biotechnology company with a focus on developing affordable medicines to treat cancer while reducing costs and increasing global access to those medicines. Global Clinical Operations at BeiGene is a dynamic and growing organization leading a team of more than 1,000 associates in 40+ countries.

The Business and Strategic Operations (BSO) Lead will report directly to the Head of Americas of GCO. The incumbent will:

• Be accountable for the regional business operations of, including planning, developing, leading, and managing business strategy, resources, budget, vendor management/oversight, and goal settings
• Drive the regional optimization of process, resource management, organization and decision-making
• Lead optimization of assigned GCO process, organization and decision making.
• Lead development & tracking of goals & key performance indicators for GCO
• Lead key strategic initiatives for Clinical Operations, Development, and/or Corporate, and develop organizational & communication framework with/for stakeholders, leadership members and employees
• Measure the overall health of the organization and develop key performance indicators for GCO, Americas
• Help develop a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and individual and organizational growth

Essential Functions of the job:

Leadership & Governance

• Act as an advisor to and extension of the GCO Regional Head and Leadership Team
• Responsible for operational management of the project management, including stakeholder management across functions
• Create and lead a robust regional governance for Regional GCO team that makes time, information, and decision processes more effective across the world; Drive strategic America’s Leadership Team decision-making;
• Provide insights and analyses on the company’s regional operations to GCO and R&D leadership
• Plan and execute key GCO initiatives, and assess impact
  • Ensure appropriate scoping of projects & contribute expertise/insights to develop, implement and lead key strategic initiative/plans.
  • Provide internal project management support as necessary. Act as project leader to plan and execute the assigned projects.
  • Facilitate alignment with key stakeholders and ensure communication across project teams.
  • Plan, track, and manage project tasks, milestones, dependencies, and identify elements on critical path
  • Coordinate project team meeting schedules, prepare agendas and minutes, track action items and progress reports according to project management best practices.

Resourcing & Budget

• Forecast and manage GCO resources and budgets- in collaboration with GCO functions, HR and Finance-
• Engage in strategic discussions and provide recommendations based on analysis with quantifiable opportunities to drive optimization

GCO Performance & Communications

• Develop and Report comprehensive KPIs for Development and GCO; assess risks and provide recommendation to improve overall organization’s performance. Implement approved recommendations.
• Support the development of publications, presentations, executive level slides, and any other internal and external communications for GCO
• Responsible for the execution of the GCO communication strategies, messaging platforms, content assets and multi-channel engagements

Business Transformation & Change Management

• Plan and lead key regional GCO and/or corporate initiatives, and provide internal project management support to sub teams, as necessary

• Responsible for Change Management and stakeholder engagement strategies to encapsulate impact of change(s) on people, process, and technology; Apply a structured methodology; Support training as necessary.

Vendor Management

• Partner with cross-functional leaders to define and implement the sourcing vision and regional strategy for GCO and create best-in-class vendor management/oversight capability.
• Lead the executive management of selected partners through implementation of robust governance and oversight processes across regional GCO