Head of R&D, Digital Business Innovation

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $284k - $364k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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BeOne Medicines

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2010

🧬 Biotechnology

🏥 Healthcare

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology • Healthcare • Pharmaceuticals

BeOne Medicines is a global oncology company domiciled in Switzerland that is discovering and developing innovative treatments that are more affordable and accessible to cancer patients worldwide. With a portfolio spanning hematology and solid tumors, BeOne is expediting the development of its diverse pipeline of novel therapeutics through its internal capabilities and collaborations. With a growing global team of more than 11,000 colleagues spanning six continents, the Company is committed to radically improving access to medicines for far more patients who need them.

📋 Description

• Identify and prioritize high-value opportunities to transform R&D workflows, operating practices, and decision-making through AI and digital capabilities • Challenge legacy processes and assumptions and define what should be eliminated, simplified, automated, augmented, or redesigned • Translate business challenges into a focused portfolio of innovation initiatives with clear outcomes, priorities, and value hypotheses • Lead cross-functional initiatives from opportunity identification through implementation, scaling, and value realization • Reimagine end-to-end R&D workflows using AI, intelligent agents, automation, and data • Rapidly test concepts through experiments, prototypes, and proofs of value • Define human oversight, decision rights, accountability, and controls for AI-enabled workflows • Partner with R&D leaders to implement sustainable changes in processes, roles, skills, behaviors, and operating practices • Build stakeholder ownership, trust, and readiness for new ways of working • Establish feedback and learning mechanisms to improve workflows, user experience, and business effectiveness • Partner with Digital & AI Product Management, Data Science, Technology, and functional teams to develop scalable solutions • Lead opportunity definition, workflow redesign, business adoption, and value realization for digital and AI initiatives • Influence senior stakeholders, align diverse perspectives, accelerate decisions, and remove barriers to innovation • Define measurable business outcomes, performance baselines, and targets • Measure impact across cycle time, productivity, quality, cost, user experience, and decision effectiveness • Scale successful innovations across R&D functions and geographies • Develop repeatable approaches and playbooks for AI-native workflow innovation, adoption, scaling, and value realization

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, science, engineering, technology, or a related field and 14+ years of relevant experience • Advanced degree and 10+ years of relevant experience preferred • Significant experience leading complex business innovation, transformation, process redesign, digital initiatives, or organizational change in a global, matrixed organization • Demonstrated ability to think AI-natively and redesign workflows from first principles • Demonstrated track record of challenging established practices and delivering measurable improvements in business performance • Experience taking innovation from opportunity identification and experimentation through implementation, adoption, scaling, and value realization • Strong understanding of generative AI, intelligent agents, automation, and data-driven decision support • Strong strategic and systems thinking, problem-solving, stakeholder engagement, and execution capabilities • Proven ability to influence senior leaders, navigate ambiguity and resistance, and mobilize cross-functional teams across organizational boundaries • Intellectual curiosity and commitment to continuously understanding emerging AI capabilities • Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or another complex, knowledge-intensive and regulated industry preferred • Strong understanding of pharmaceutical R&D processes; Clinical Operations experience highly desirable • Experience applying generative AI, agentic AI, intelligent automation, advanced analytics, or emerging technologies to business workflows preferred • Familiarity with process redesign, human-centered design, experimentation, agile ways of working, or digital product development preferred • Experience working across global and culturally diverse organizations preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus plan eligibility for non-commercial roles • Incentive compensation plan eligibility for commercial roles • Discretionary equity awards • Voluntary participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) • FSA/HSA • Life insurance • Paid Time Off • Wellness benefits

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