Associate Director, Global R&D Sourcing
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:
Role Purpose
This position plays a critical role in leveraging external solutions-including CRO partnerships, digitalization, and AI-to improve cost efficiency, accelerate delivery, and enhance quality across R&D.
Business Partnering and Cost Optimization
The role serves as a business partner to R&D functions, helping identify cost optimization opportunities, develop practical solutions, and support implementation in alignment with the R&D superhighway.
Category Strategy and External Resourcing
This position is responsible for category management of CRO and FSP outsourcing. It partners with cross-functional stakeholders to define outsourcing and external resourcing strategies, support vendor and partner selection, and enable effective execution.
Vendor Management and Governance
The role also leads vendor management activities, including maintaining strategic supplier relationships, resolving issues, tracking performance, and organizing governance meetings to ensure supplier quality oversight and maximize the value of external partnerships.
Essential Functions of the Job:
Category Strategy and Market Intelligence
- Monitor trends in the R&D CRO/FSP market, external resourcing models, and broader industry developments to inform category strategy.
- Engage R&D business stakeholders to understand outsourcing needs and translate them into function- and study-level category, outsourcing, and vendor strategies.
- Lead category management initiatives that optimize external spend, strengthen supplier value, and improve sourcing outcomes.
Business Partnering and Cost Optimization
- Build trusted partnerships with internal stakeholders and serve as a strategic sourcing partner to R&D functions.
- Provide supply market intelligence and vendor insights to support business planning, sourcing decisions, and strategy development.
- Identify cost optimization opportunities, develop supporting business cases, and align recommendations with business priorities.
- Partner with the business to support implementation, track progress, and manage sourcing-related projects through execution.
Vendor Management and Contracting
- Lead supplier relationship management activities to strengthen strategic vendor partnerships and support long-term business value.
- Manage vendor performance, issue escalation and resolution, risk oversight, and ongoing governance activities.
- Oversee key MSA and rate card negotiations to secure competitive terms and ensure alignment with category objectives.
- Oversee effective contracting and execution within the category, ensuring timely delivery and compliance with internal requirements.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Computer Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and contract management systems.
Travel: Limited travel may be required.
Education Required:
- BS/BA degree in related discipline and 10+ years of experience; or,
- MS/MA degree in related discipline and 8+ years of related experience; or,
- Equivalent combination of education and experience.
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].