Executive Director, Global Commercial Finance & Center of Excellence

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

We are seeking an exceptional leader to serve as a strategic finance partner to Commercial leadership and to lead our Global Commercial Finance Center of Excellence (COE). You will partner directly with Commercial leadership on the decisions that shape our growth, bringing a clear view of performance and stronger rigor to forecasts, investment choices, and trade-offs.

In parallel, you will lead the Global Commercial Finance Center of Excellence, defining "what good looks like" for Commercial Finance and building the operating model behind it: the standards, capabilities, talent, and tools that let high-impact partnering scale across every region.

Working closely with Commercial Leadership, Regional Finance, and Corporate FP&A, you will shape both the decisions we make today and the finance function we need for the next phase of growth. The role reports to the VP, Finance for Commercial Operations and is part of the Global Commercial Finance leadership team.

Essential Functions of the Job

Business Partnering & Performance Leadership

• Help Commercial leaders make better business decisions with clear financial insight.
• Partner with Global Commercial leaders on performance, choices, risks, and opportunities - and influence the decisions that follow.
• Lead key planning work for Commercial Finance: annual planning, forecasts, long-range planning, performance reviews, scenario analysis, and earnings support.
• Bring regional, market, operational, and financial information into one clear global view of performance, spotting trends, forecast risks, and growth opportunities early.
• Turn complex financial data into clear insights, practical recommendations, and action-oriented insights for senior leaders.
• Strengthen business cases by making assumptions, options, risks, value drivers, and recommendations clear.
• Help leaders pressure-test plans, understand trade-offs, and balance near-term performance with long-term growth and patient impact.
• Support fact-based investment and resource allocation decisions across Global Commercial priorities.
• Make reporting and insights for the CFO, Investor Relations, and other enterprise stakeholders clearer, more consistent, and easier to use.

Center of Excellence & Operating Model

• Build simple, consistent ways of working that help the function scale.
• Define the purpose, scope, services, governance, decision rights, and success measures for the Global Commercial Finance COE.
• Design how Global Commercial Finance, Regional Finance, and the COE will work together day to day.
• Clarify who owns business partnering, planning, reporting, analytics, systems, data, and execution.
• Create common standards for planning, forecasting, reporting, analytics, performance management, and business case development.
• Lead priority Finance transformation work, including ARC-related work, with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Simplify fragmented processes, calendars, templates, data definitions, and reporting routines to reduce duplication and free up capacity.
• Use planning tools, business intelligence, automation, analytics, and appropriate AI-enabled solutions to improve speed, quality, and scalability.
• Put practical data governance, controls, and system ownership in place so teams can rely on timely and accurate information.
• Partner with Corporate FP&A and regional teams to remove overlapping work, improve handoffs, and connect enterprise, global, regional, and market planning.
• Build a practical implementation roadmap that balances quick wins with longer-term operating model changes.
• Track COE performance through simple measures for service, quality, timeliness, adoption, and business impact.

Organization & Talent Leadership

• Build the team, capabilities, and culture needed for a high-performing global function.
• Lead, coach, and develop a strong global team with the business, finance, analytical, technical, and influencing skills needed to support a growing business.
• Create a clear organization and talent plan for the COE, including role clarity, capability priorities, succession needs, and location strategy.
• Provide functional leadership to the broader Global Commercial Finance community while preserving appropriate regional accountability.
• Define the key capabilities needed for strong Commercial Finance business partnering, including business acumen, insight generation, advanced modelling, executive communication, and transformation leadership.
• Identify capability gaps and address them through coaching, stretch assignments, shared learning, tools, standards, and practical work on business priorities.
• Build a stronger leadership bench and succession pipeline by creating development and mobility opportunities for high-potential talent.
• Create a culture of accountability, curiosity, collaboration, constructive challenge, continuous learning, and disciplined execution.
• Lead inclusively and create an environment where different perspectives improve decisions and teams can perform at their best.
• Influence across functions, regions, and levels by building trust, setting clear expectations, and removing barriers to performance.
• Reduce dependency on a small number of senior leaders by creating repeatable standards, stronger delegation, clear ownership, and sustainable team capabilities.

Qualifications

• 14+ years of experience in Finance, FP&A, or Commercial Finance, with significant leadership responsibility in a complex global organization.
• Strong experience partnering with senior Commercial or business leaders to guide strategy, investment decisions, resource allocation, and performance improvement.
• Experience leading core FP&A work, including annual planning, forecasting, long-range planning, performance reviews, business cases, and executive decision support.
• Experience in a global or above-market Commercial Finance role, including bringing together regional performance, priorities, and insights into a clear enterprise view.
• Biotech, pharmaceutical, or life sciences experience supporting global brands, launches, regions, or commercial portfolios is preferred.
• Proven ability to build or improve finance capabilities, operating models, shared services, or a Center of Excellence.
• Experience improving planning, reporting, analytics, and performance management processes across regions or business units.
• Comfortable using enterprise planning systems, business intelligence tools, data visualization, automation, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled tools to improve finance work and decision support.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to separate important insights from data and turn them into clear recommendations.
• Strong commercial judgment, with the ability to connect market dynamics, portfolio decisions, operating drivers, and financial outcomes.
• Strong communication and executive presence, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly and credibly to senior Commercial and Finance leaders.
• Able to influence across global, regional, and functional teams by building trust, challenging constructively, and working in partnership.
• Experience leading teams, developing talent, managing through change, and working effectively in a matrixed organization.
• Strong transformation leadership skills, including simplifying processes, enabling technology, managing change, and driving adoption.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Lead a small global team including the FP&A consolidations function.

Travel:

• 15%

Preferred Location: Basel

Salary Range Switzerland: 252,800.00 CHF - 316,000.00 CHF

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

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.