Senior Project Manager, Strategic Operations, Global Clinical Operations

Senior Project Manager, Strategic Operations

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 and a budget more than $200M.

The Senior Project Manager, Strategic Operations will report directly to the Executive Director, Chief of Staff to GCO Head. The incumbent will:

• Provide project management and change management across multiple GCO projects & initiatives and assess / monitor impact
• Lead optimization of assigned GCO processes, organization and support decision making.
• Lead development & tracking of goals & key performance indicators for GCO
• Support Leadership in the areas of Business Strategy, Operational Insights Generation and Cross Functional Engagements.

Essential Functions of the job:

• Member of the GCO Strategic Operations team; Collaborate with teams within GCO and other functions to deliver on commitments to the organization and to patients
• Provide support for insights driven GCO strategic & operational decision-making by leveraging internally & externally available data sources
• Plan, track, and manage progress of the GCO goals/objectives and other performance indicators
• Develop and lead cross-functional teams in brainstorming new approaches in driving efficiencies & other improvement measures.
• Plan, execute key GCO initiatives, and assess impact
• Lead/support planning, execution, and delivery of assigned GCO projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, mitigating risks, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive change and scalable, high-impact outcomes.
• Develop, implement, and oversee the methodology, system(s), and tactical process for managing the portfolio of GCO projects.
• Support the Office of GCO team members in the implementation of a framework and methodology for GCO project prioritization and ensure alignment with annual goals, and strategic imperatives.
• In collaboration with the project team establish and maintain project charter and scope documents.
• Establish and drive timely execution of actionable project plans for the projects.
• Support the project teams in the development of business cases for key GCO projects to assess and quantify business opportunity across key criteria (i.e. cost saving, improvement to compliance and/or quality etc.) to enable ongoing prioritization.
• Coordinate project team meeting schedules, prepare agendas and minutes, track decisions and action items and progress reports according to project management best practices.
• Work with the cross-functional project teams to enable alignment, drive advancement of project deliverables, define, capture and track status/milestones, issues, and risks to the project.
• Represent the Strategic Operations Team & GCO in collaborations with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate.
• Contributes to selected annual operating planning processes

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None - Mentor and coach GCO associates

Education Required: Advanced degrees required in Life sciences or business with 5+ years experience. A Master/MBA in operations and 5 years' experience in biotech, pharmaceuticals or a related field in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry preferred. At least 3 years of experience leading large scale strategic initiatives in the pharmaceutical, biotech or related industry. Oncology experience highly preferred.

Computer Skills: Advanced Microsoft Excel user, Database/Data Warehouse experience preferred, Adobe, PowerBI, Microsoft Office: Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Smartsheet

Other Qualifications: Strong communication and organization, strong data analysis, attention to detail, understanding of Agile principles, strong understanding of data modeling, business analysis, project management, fluid presenter

Fluent in written and verbal English.

Excellent presentation and verbal communications skills

Proven leadership in determining needs of the business and taking initiatives

Proven track in change management, managing conflict, internal and external

Strong project management skills - organized, disciplined, comfortable following up on actionable / holding people accountable, able to think ahead and catch problems before they arise

Time management a must

Ability to partner across all time zones

Excellent understanding of models, frameworks, tools and solution to increase leadership effectiveness

Ability to deal with ambiguity and make decisions with a high-growth, rapidly evolving environment

Strong analytic and strategic thinking skills with attention to details

Travel: up to 25%

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.