[Hiring] Director, GCO Clinical Program Lead @BeiGene

Role Description

BeOne 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.

At BeOne, our Global Development SuperHighway — our integrated, end-to-end, wholly internal development capability — is a cornerstone of our R&D vision. It brings together a unique set of internal cross-functional capabilities from across the globe needed for efficient delivery of clinical trials to develop impactful medicines to accelerate access to innovation for patients around the world.

We are now opening this same delivery engine to the world’s most promising external science. Through SuperHighway partnerships, highly promising assets from leading biotech partners can access our development capabilities creating a true win-win ecosystem with the ultimate goal of helping more patients around the world. This is a rare opportunity to help build something genuinely new — joining a high-caliber, agile team at the leading edge of clinical development innovation. If you are energized by building, by challenging the status quo, and by making a real impact on patients’ lives, this is where you belong.

Leveraging deep Therapeutic Area expertise, solid global program management skills, global view, and borderless leadership, the GCO Program Lead is accountable for the strategic operational planning and clinical operational performance of designated programs and acts as a point of escalation for the resolution of issues of the studies within responsible program(s).

This role helps deliver the partnership studies that run on our Clinical SuperHighway, supporting seamless onboarding and high-quality execution of external partner projects in close partnership with the execution functions.

Qualifications

• Project management exposure/experience across the entire lifecycle of multi-region/country clinical trials in a fast-paced global environment.
• Experience in both people management and program management preferred.

Requirements

• Accountable and responsible for building, developing and retaining the global team of gCSM, including hiring, training, mentoring, developing direct and indirect reports, performance appraisals and resource management.
• Oversee the delivery and goal achievement of projects within the designated program(s), serving as the point of escalation for resolving issues that gCSM cannot resolve.
• Collaborate with the other GCPLs and Franchise Heads (FH) to define and implement strategies and key priorities across-programs, and establish global standards for goals, performance measures, and capability development for the gCSM roles.
• In coordination with Franchise Head, accountable to the Franchise ERC, DCT and other governance teams as appropriate as GCO representative, to provide clinical operational insight to drive the program strategy and ensure excellence in execution.
• Lead/participate in the KOL engagement activities in the designated programs and may act as function spokesperson if needed.
• Evaluate and develop strategic feasibility and budget estimates during Early Planning for new CDPs and upon strategy change during the conduct of a study, where needed.
• Accountable for resource allocation and initiating CST formation; ensures appropriate transition of outputs from early planning to the gCSM.
• Create and be accountable for the annual program budget and resource forecasts, as well as contributing to and tracking the relevant DCT goals for the program.
• Create, review, and provide input to and maintain compound-level documents such as IB, DSUR, and protocol.
• Oversee timely, quality, and efficient study planning and execution of associated studies within the allocated program.
• Conduct regular program review meetings to mentor, support, and ensure all studies are tracking to the DCT/DRC-approved budget and timeline.
• Report on study status, goals, and operational KPIs, and enforce quality KPIs with support from the Compliance team.
• Collaborate with other GCPLs to evaluate and designate preferred global vendors and participate in vendor governance meetings.
• Create or review performance and development plans for direct reports, facilitate and support delivery of performance and development goals.
• Provide line management and mentorship to gCSMs working within the designated program(s).
• Inspire and lead efforts to deepen scientific knowledge within the Clinical Operations’ function.
• Champions a global mindset and approach across Clinical Operations to foster collaboration and consistency across the organization.
• Provide expert knowledge on the execution of clinical trials through a deep understanding of ICH/GCP Guidelines and other applicable regulatory requirements.
• Point of escalation for all compound-related issues.
• Identify and drive process improvement initiatives in collaboration with Franchise Head and/or other GCPLs within program.
• Collaborates with cross-functional leaders to provide operational perspectives to enable effective and efficient delivery of clinical development goals.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $171,900.00 - $231,900.00 annually.
• Opportunity to own shares of BeOne Medicines Ltd. stock.
• Eligible for discretionary equity awards and to voluntarily participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness.