About us

BeiGene is a global oncology company that is discovering and developing innovative treatments that are more affordable and accessible to cancer patients worldwide. With a broad portfolio, we are expediting development of our diverse pipeline of novel therapeutics through our internal capabilities and collaborations. We are committed to radically improving access to medicines for far more patients who need them. Our growing global team of more than 10,000 colleagues spans five continents, with administrative offices in Basel, Beijing, and Cambridge, U.S. To learn more about BeiGene, please visit www.beigene.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X (formerly known as Twitter).

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.

Job Description:

General Description:

The Senior Manager, Scientific Site Engagement Lead (SMSSEL), will serve as a value-added resource to sites and investigators and support the Company’s Clinical Development Programs. The SMSSEL will be responsible for building and managing relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), clinical trial investigators, and research staff to ensure full engagement throughout the course of an asset’s clinical development. They will also work to build relationships, where appropriate, scientific organizations and academic organizations.

Being regionally based, the primary focus of the SMSSEL role will be to enhance clinical trial execution and enrolment through building deep relationships with study investigators and research staff in their region. The SMSSEL will work with the clinical investigators and site staff to provide education, support enrolment and retention initiatives, identify, mitigate and provide solutions to enrolment hurdles, disseminate product/trial information, represent company interests, and provide scientific intelligence.

The Senior Manager, Scientific Site Engagement Lead (SMSSEL) developing relationships with internal departments to ensure delivery of high-quality feasibility/site identification assessments. Expertise in the region about Standard of Care, disease landscape and competitive intelligence, including but not limited to competing trials, recent or upcoming approvals, prescribing data, insurance claims data, and recruitment capabilities.  This includes conducting feasibility outreach and participating in intelligence gathering and risk assessment to coordinate feasibility projects and deliverables. Aligned with global feasibility and the site management team, this position will play a critical role in data-driven strategic design and operational feasibility, site identification and recruitment and retention recommendations for early to late-stage medicines development across global clinical operations (GCO) at the concept stage through to execution.

Territories for the SMSSEL position will vary as needs arise and develop.

Essential Functions of the job:

Serves as the primary point of contact for the region of the clinical operation and liaises cross-functionally to enable expedited, predictive delivery for all stages of regional feasibility, ensuring standardization in the use of data, tools, and processes to advise quality decision-making at TA, indication, program and study levels

In partnership with internal stakeholders, including regional leaders (e.g., country heads, regional study managers) and site management (e.g., CRAs, trial oversight managers) - combines and integrate data to provide clear feasibility recommendations to strengthen data-driven trend analysis, identify root causes, and provide relevant recommendations across study teams and programs to accelerate study execution.

Provide data-driven operational feasibility strategy, including site identification and recruitment and retention recommendations at TA/indication/program level, taking into consideration outstanding needs of indication, patient population, study, and business priorities.

Collect and analyze all data (e.g., local treatment standard of care, available treatment options approved/reimbursed, local incidence/prevalence of disease, access to the targeted patient population, drug landscape, historical/current clinical trial landscape) to influence and inform protocol development, operational plans, and establish a geographic country footprint and proposed sites for participation in a clinical study.

Use all competitive intelligence data to develop data-driven study startup forecasts, benchmarking assumptions, and accurate enrollment plans.

Develop deep insights, uncover unmet needs, and collaborate within a global matrixed team.

Explain data and facilitate decision-making processes to be data driven.

Partners with study design teams on protocol optimization enabling data-driven approaches to inform decision-making and improve the predictability of execution

Contribute to efforts to implement creative processes, methodologies, data, and technologies to ensure continuous delivery of valued Feasibility and Study Startup Services.

Leads and contributes to Strategic planning meetings, regional in-depth capabilities meetings, training calls, kick-off meetings and ongoing team meetings to confirm the adequacy of sites/enrollment and ongoing feasibility support.

Leverage leading industry tools and data sources to provide data on startup timelines, past recruitment rates and performance (data quality, startup cycle time, query rate, protocol deviations, inspection results) to assist project teams with study initiation timeline forecasting.

Maintain the patient enrollment forecast from a strategic perspective. In collaboration with the BeiGene study team and CRO (if applicable), responsible for re-forecasting patient enrollment models to adjust for new influence factors (e.g., change in drug landscape, protocol amendment, increased screen failure rate).

Lead study-specific recruitment programs working closely with the clinical study teams, vendors, and CRO as applicable.

Determine risk/ mitigation planning to study feasibility or recruit the study participants.

Maintain current therapeutic area knowledge and assess the impact of evolving information on operational strategies.

Exhibit the ability to perform root cause analysis and determine mitigation steps to removing roadblocks related to study execution and patient enrollment.

Participate in regional and global projects representing Clinical Operations and Study Optimization to support BeiGene R&D goals.

Builds and cultivates relationships with disease area experts (KOLs), Clinical Investigators in the disease area, Research sites, and staff and institutions.

Works collaboratively with sites, investigators, disease area experts (KOLs), and cross-functional team members to ensure the rapid and successful start-tup, enrolment, and completion of BeiGene’s clinical trial programs. This will be the primary measure by which the success of this position will be assessed

Proactively identifies issues and barriers to enrolment and works to develop solutions in a crossfunctional manner. Proactively identifies and addresses concerns from sites and patients regarding clinical trial participation. Develops and maintains BeiGene’s working relationships with Investigational sites and Investigators

Works cross-functionally within BeiGene, including Operations, Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Safety, and others, to facilitate the conduct and successful completion of clinical trials.

Serves as a resource to provide education as warranted on clinical trial protocols, scientific background related to products, research rationale, and the latest information related to relevant clinical research. Sustains expertise in disease state management, emerging therapies, and the competitive landscape.

Attends relevant national, regional, and international meetings in the relevant therapeutic area, serving to gather information on developments in the therapeutic area, and represent the company as required.

Engages in peer-to-peer discussions with investigators and researchers about trial progress, data, and results

Undertake local clinical trial landscape assessment, including gathering industry field insights relating to competing trials to inform strategic feasibility process and inform recruitment strategies

Identify new sites for consideration and continuously search for new opportunities

Qualification Required:

Education Required:

M.D./PhD or equivalent with significant experience in all aspects of clinical trials and professional knowledge and skills working with oncologic therapeutics

Other Qualifications:   

Knowledge or experience in the oncology/hematology therapeutic area.

Experience in clinical trial design, logistics, and evaluation

Knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements in clinical trials and drug development

Supervisory Responsibilities:  

Oversee training and development of feasibility team members

Drive a high level of ownership and accountability within the team and with external stakeholders

Manage performance deliverables of team members

Computer Skills:   All basic Microsoft Office Programs

Travel:  Extensive Local, Regional and International

What We Offer To Our Valued Employees

Market competitive compensation package including performance-based annual bonus schemeCompany shares (generous welcome grant and performance-based annual equity plan!)In-house and external learning and development opportunitiesFantastic benefits program and keep improving!Plus you get to work with a dynamic team of collaborative, supportive, inclusive, and fun professionals whose mission is clear: Cancer has no borders and neither do we.Join us and Make momentum in your career!

BeiGene Global Competencies

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

Fosters TeamworkProvides and Solicits Honest and Actionable FeedbackSelf-AwarenessActs InclusivelyDemonstrates InitiativeEntrepreneurial MindsetContinuous LearningEmbraces ChangeResults-OrientedAnalytical Thinking/Data AnalysisFinancial ExcellenceCommunicates with Clarity

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