Head of Strategy & Operations, Markets

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.

The Head of Strategy & Operations – New Markets (HSONM) is a senior leadership role accountable for strategic planning, business operations, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning and cross-functional orchestration across New Markets.

Reporting to the Head of New Market Development, the HSONM serves as a senior strategic thought partner to New Markets leadership and connects enterprise, regional and country priorities to enable coordinated planning and execution across the New Markets organization.

The role has broad enterprise-wide influence and operates across functions, geographies and organizational boundaries without direct reporting authority. HSONM establishes the strategic and operational frameworks required to translate New Markets priorities into coordinated action, strengthen organizational effectiveness and enable timely, high-quality leadership decision-making.

Working closely with global, regional and country stakeholders, the HSONM drives alignment across Commercial, Medical, Finance, HR, Regulatory, Clinical Development and other relevant functions.

The role focuses on New Markets planning, business operations, operating model, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning and cross-functional execution, complementing the distinct accountabilities of roles responsible for growth initiatives, partnerships and business development.

• Strategic Planning & Enterprise Alignment: Establish and lead the New Markets planning framework, translating agreed enterprise and commercial priorities into integrated business plans, resource requirements and clear measures of progress.
• Enterprise-Wide Orchestration: Manage critical interdependencies across global, regional, functional and country stakeholders, ensuring coordinated delivery of New Markets priorities and timely resolution of cross-organizational issues.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Exercise leadership through influence rather than formal authority, mobilizing diverse stakeholders, fostering shared accountability and enabling effective decision-making across organizational boundaries.
• Strategy-to-Execution: Establish mechanisms that translate strategic priorities into executable plans, milestones, accountabilities and measurable outcomes.
• Executive Thought Partnership: Serve as a senior strategic thought partner to the Head of New Market Development and New Markets leadership, providing structured analysis, perspectives and recommendations on business priorities, organizational requirements and execution challenges.
• Business Operations & Operating Model: Shape and continuously improve the internal New Markets organizational operating model, governance structures, decision processes and ways of working to strengthen organizational effectiveness, scalability and agility.
• Enterprise Planning & Resource Alignment: Establish frameworks that provide leadership with an integrated view of organizational priorities, resource requirements and dependencies to support informed allocation decisions.
• Strategic Workforce Planning: In partnership with HR, Finance and business leaders, lead the strategic workforce planning framework for New Markets, connecting business priorities, organizational capabilities and future resource requirements.
• Organizational Effectiveness: Identify and address organizational and process barriers, clarify interfaces and accountabilities, and strengthen ways of working across the New Markets organization. Leads initiatives and continuous improvement related to business operations, including establishing best practices and assessing key performance metrics.
• Leadership Governance: Design and facilitate senior leadership governance, including leadership forums, business reviews and decision-making processes, ensuring appropriate follow-through on key decisions and commitments.
• Performance & Strategic Insights: Establish mechanisms to assess progress against New Markets strategic priorities, identify emerging risks and dependencies, and provide decision-oriented insights to leadership.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Provide leadership with an integrated view of progress against agreed priorities, key dependencies and emerging risks,…