Director, Global Clinical Operations, Compliance

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.

General Description:

The Director, Global Clinical Operations, Compliance builds, collaborates and manages key relations to better support and understand the compliance-related needs of the business and drive the compliance activities within Global Clinical Operations. Provides quality guidance, direction and expertise to GCO stakeholders for the compliant conduct of study programs; designs, implements and monitors measures to reduce compliance risks and enhance successful clinical trial conduct. In addition, develops partnerships with key enterprise business partners and stakeholders to advance compliance solutions, embed preventive compliance and enable transparency, escalation, and resolution of quality and compliance matters.
 

This role reports to the Senior Director, Head Inspection Management and Operations, GCOE.

Essential Functions of the job:

• Identifies and anticipates potential issues impacting the ability to meet business goals; develops and implements methods of improvement and resolution.

• Independently leads and/or participates in global and cross-functional initiatives, working groups and project teams as a decision maker, subject matter expert or reviewer of initiatives and solutions to ensure compliance with ICH GCP, applicable laws and regulations and consistency within BeiGene Quality Management System.

• Works collaboratively with global and regional study teams to ensure that proper root cause assessments, corrective and preventive actions for quality issues, site non-compliance, audit and inspection findings are in place, and that lessons learnt are disseminated and actioned upon within the broader GCO organization. Identifies and escalates significant compliance issues within GCO and to relevant leadership, including assessment of serious breaches.

• Contributes to the design and implementation of risk identification and management strategies for clinical studies and other regulated drug development activities. Works collaboratively with internal and external business partners and key stakeholders to provide expertise and consultative guidance on business initiatives involving systems, processes, procedures, regulations and tools intended for use in clinical study conduct and other regulated drug development activities to ensure compliance with ICH GCP, applicable laws and regulations and BeiGene policies and procedures.

• Maintains the highest level of expertise in global GCP guidance and regulations, industry best practices, and internal policies and procedures impacting drug development to promote quality and compliance within GCO. Embeds quality principles throughout the organization.

• Supports quality issue trending, analysis, and review activities to proactively identify broader issues and/or patterns within the GCO organization; leads the design and implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions, as applicable; escalates the identified issues with broader organizational impact within GCO and to relevant leadership.

• Ensures provision of actionable data and insights regarding the state of quality and compliance to GCO leadership and other stakeholders as requested i.e., GCOE.

• Reports compliance state of the organization by working together with critical functions in GCOE, such as Learning & Development, TMF, process management, and Global Program Compliance.

• Identifies potential compliance matters and drives the development and implementation of methods for improvement and resolution pragmatically and effectively.

• Proactively researches, evaluates, and makes recommendations associated with organizational impact of evolving laws and regulations. Benchmarks and stays abreast of other industry and marketplace developments and best practices as they relate to drug development quality and compliance.

• Leads inspection preparation and management for local country and global Health Authority inspections.

• Provides leadership (direction, oversight, guidance and subject matter expertise) to project teams as assigned.

• Oversees the work of indirect/direct reports, as assigned, to ensure on-time, on-target and within budget results. Provide ongoing mentoring, coaching, guidance and feedback to ensure indirect/direct reports are successful in their work, as well as have the necessary and timely access to information and other resources. Supports the professional development of direct/indirect reports, as applicable.

• Conducts regular one-on-one and any other staff meetings to ensure timely communication with indirect/direct reports. Provides feedback on formal performance reviews and career development planning for all indirect reports.

• Manages budget for assigned projects and/or activities. Maintains operational and budgetary awareness of the overall GCO Compliance project portfolio, as applicable.

Education / Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Medicine, Quality Management, or related field and at least 10 years of relevant experience; or Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Medicine, Quality Management, or related field and at least 7 years of relevant experience.

• Relevant experience can be in drug development, clinical operations, clinical quality assurance, medical affairs, clinical regulatory compliance or a related field.

Other Qualifications:    

• Has impeccable ethics. Exercises sound judgement and discretion in matters of significance.

• Demonstrated experience with planning, prioritizing, and managing high-level initiatives and projects. Strong organizational and prioritization skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects of different levels of complexity. Knowledgeable in stakeholder management and influencing change. Proven interpersonal skills, customer-focused approach, and effective teamwork and collaboration skills.

• Must demonstrate knowledge of and strong aptitude to learn about the evolving legal and regulatory environment, ICH GCP, applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards as it relates to a global pharmaceutical organization.

• Must understand corporate (local and global) and organization (local and global) policies,

• procedures and guidelines.

• Excellent organizational and planning skills; able to prioritize, identify conflicts and meet deadlines without direction.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Highly adept at synthesizing and summarizing unusually complex and/or voluminous content in clear, concise, and actionable communications.

• Leverages these skills to work effectively and credibly with leaders across GCO and development.

• Proven ability to lead the analysis and simplification of complex systems or processes into pragmatic solutions. Strong ability to analyze and simplify complex systems. Highly effective in analytical and strategic assessment of GCP compliance risks; able to articulate potential business impact.

• Demonstrated ability to influence and lead both with and without authority in a matrix organization, leading innovation and change.

Supervisory Responsibilities:  

• May or may not manage direct/indirect reports as needed.

Travel:  May be required (10-20%).

Global Competencies

When we exhibit our values of Patients First, Driving Excellence, Bold Ingenuity and Collaborative Spirit, through our twelve global competencies below, we help get more affordable medicines to more patients around the world.

• Fosters Teamwork
• Provides and Solicits Honest and Actionable Feedback
• Self-Awareness
• Acts Inclusively
• Demonstrates Initiative
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Continuous Learning
• Embraces Change
• Results-Oriented
• Analytical Thinking/Data Analysis
• Financial Excellence
• Communicates with Clarity

BeOne is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation packages are determined by several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, certifications, relevant education or training, and specific work location. Packages may vary by location due to differences in the cost of labor. The recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for a preferred location during the hiring process.  Please note that the listed range reflects the base salary or hourly range only. Non-Commercial roles are eligible to participate in the annual bonus plan, and Commercial roles are eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan. All Company employees have the opportunity to own shares of BeOne Medicines Ltd. stock because all employees are eligible for discretionary equity awards and to voluntarily participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The Company has a comprehensive benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. BeOne does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and any other applicable federal, state or local laws, applicants who require reasonable accommodation in the job application process may contact [email protected].