Senior Director, Portfolio and Program Management, Biotech Unit

Overview

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. This role reports directly to the Head of Biotech Unit (BTU) and is a member of the BTU core leadership team, contributing to overall BTU strategy and driving its vision and mission.

• Develop, validate, and maintain project plans, schedules, and lead team planning sessions, including developing the team charter, defining project scope, and ensuring global cross‑functional alignment.
• Support the Head of Biotech Unit on developing goals and operational KPIs.
• Plan, track, and manage project milestones, goals, KPIs, project budget, dependencies, and critical path.
• Implement good project and risk management practices.
• Liaise with internal and external collaborators to deliver high quality work product and presentations.
• Lead process improvement initiatives such as headcount and budget planning, budget change control, program management dashboards and reports, risk management, and continuously identify opportunities for improvement.
• Assume the responsibilities and leadership of independently providing alliance management for drug development partners and ensure smooth external collaboration.
• Consult with the Advisory Committee on relevant topics and incorporate ideas into strategy and execution where appropriate.
• Track project status, goals, operational KPIs, and enforce quality KPIs.
• Ensure appropriate systems and technologies are deployed in the Biotech Unit and well interfaced with Global R&D.
• Champion a global mindset and approach to foster collaboration and consistency across the organization.
• Organize and coordinate core team meetings and facilitate them to drive efficient discussion, alignment, and decision making.
• Understand competitors’ movements and market intelligence and translate insights into developing strategies.
• Participate in company‑wide standard discussion, finalization, and implementation.
• Manage the governance process for BTU.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Solid knowledge and expertise in managing scaled and complex global portfolios and programs.
• Good understanding of worldwide clinical trial best practices.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain positive work relationships at all organizational levels.
• PMP certification a plus.
• Experience in oncology/hematology drug development is preferred.
• Fluent in written and verbal English.
• Knowledge of Mandarin is desirable.
• Proven ability to make sound judgement and decisions.
• Ability to quickly assess problems/situations and provide effective resolution.
• Detail‑oriented while maintaining a big‑picture perspective.
• Entrepreneurship & creativity: ambition and passion to drive value with a “can‑do” attitude and willingness to take calculated risks.
• Open and creative mindset to pilot new concepts and overcome challenges.
• High learning agility.
• Strategic thinking & decision making: drive strategic portfolio and program management, integrate business cases, mitigate risks, and manage resources.
• Make operation‑level decisions under set thresholds.
• Accountable for decisions even in uncertainty and for implementation of development strategy.
• Cross‑functional knowledge & expertise: in‑depth pharmaceutical industrial and clinical knowledge to drive operational excellence.
• Experience in environments requiring seamless cross‑function collaboration and handling complexity.
• Critical leadership experience: effectively work in cross‑region, cross‑function matrices and diverse cultures, modifying style as needed.
• Business acumen: understand unmet market needs, provide a clear path to win, and demonstrate a track record in driving innovation to global commercialization.
• Strategic and decisive leadership: demonstrate energy, passion, courage, vision, strategic, analytical, and innovative thinking; analyze and provide solutions to complex challenges; proven decisive leader in a strategic multifunctional…