Associate Director, Global R&D Sourcing

Role Summary

Associate Director, Global R&D Sourcing. BeOne seeks experienced professionals who are motivated, collaborative, and focused on fighting cancer. This role manages clinical outsourcing for current and planned trials, including vendor management, contract negotiations, and budget oversight, to maximize value from internal and external partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Manages the clinical studies at study and program level as the sourcing lead.
• Engages stakeholders to identify business requirements.
• Responsible for clinical study budget estimation and budget management during the study life cycle, collaborating across functions.
• Understands cost structures for spend categories including investigator grants, central labs, IVRS, imaging, SMO, patient recruitment, comparator, and clinical depot.
• Manages identification and selection of clinical vendors.
• Generates RFIs and RFPs and budget grids.
• Coordinates bid defenses and proposal review meetings; provides analysis to project teams.
• Contract lifecycle management: negotiates scope of work, payment terms, and budgets; manages contracts and change orders.
• Assists Finance with month-end close and budgeting/forecasting (accruals, project budgets).
• Ensures quality oversight of suppliers; partners with suppliers and internal stakeholders to manage, escalate, and resolve performance issues.
• Measures supplier performance using scorecards/metrics; communicates feedback to suppliers and promotes best practices and process improvements.
• Facilitates and executes supplier governance meetings and operating reviews.
• Develops partnerships with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Identifies industry outsourcing trends; develops and implements outsourcing processes and procedures.
• Leads or contributes to complex functional or company initiatives and special projects as identified by leadership.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in related discipline and 10+ years of related experience; or
• MS/MA in related discipline and 10+ years of related experience; or
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Bilingual English and Chinese preferred

Skills

• Vendor identification and selection
• Budget estimation and management
• Contract lifecycle management
• Supplier performance measurement
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Negotiation and change management
• Outsourcing process development

Education

• As indicated in Qualifications (BS/BA or MS/MA in related discipline or equivalent).

Additional Requirements

• None specified beyond the above qualifications.