Head of Strategy & Operations, New Markets

BeOne Medicines USA; Basel; On-site; CHF 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

BeOne Medicines USA is seeking a Head of Strategy & Operations - New Markets (HSONM), a senior leadership role responsible for strategic planning, business operations, workforce planning and cross-functional execution across New Markets.

The HSONM partners with global, regional and country stakeholders to align priorities and enable coordinated planning and execution enterprise-wide. The role influences through leadership and drives through collaborative governance and execution frameworks.

Qualifications

• Significant pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry experience with strong understanding of commercial strategy and market dynamics.
• Demonstrated ability to operate at Executive Director level, influencing senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning & Enterprise Alignment: Translate priorities into integrated business plans and measures of progress.
• Enterprise-Wide Orchestration: Manage interdependencies across global, regional and country stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead through influence, mobilize stakeholders and enable decision-making.
• Strategy-to-Execution: Create executable plans with milestones, accountabilities and outcomes.
• Executive Thought Partnership: Advise leadership with structured analyses and recommendations.
• Business Operations & Operating Model: Improve operating model, governance and decision processes.
• Strategic Workforce Planning: Align workforce strategy with business priorities.
• Organizational Effectiveness: Identify barriers and improve processes and interfaces.
• Leadership Governance: Facilitate senior leadership governance and reviews.
• Performance & Strategic Insights: Monitor progress and provide decision-oriented insights.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Provide integrated view of progress and dependencies.
• Change Leadership: Enable operating-model changes to scale New Markets.

Skills

Executive leadership

Pharmaceutical industry experience

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

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.

The Head of Strategy & Operations - New Markets (HSONM) is a senior leadership role accountable for strategic planning, business operations, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning and cross-functional orchestration across New Markets.

Reporting to the Head of New Market Development, the HSONM serves as a senior strategic thought partner to New Markets leadership and connects enterprise, regional and country priorities to enable coordinated planning and execution across the New Markets organization.

The role has broad enterprise-wide influence and operates across functions, geographies and organizational boundaries without direct reporting authority. HSONM establishes the strategic and operational frameworks required to translate New Markets priorities into coordinated action, strengthen organizational effectiveness and enable timely, high-quality leadership decision-making.

Working closely with global, regional and country stakeholders, the HSONM drives alignment across Commercial, Medical, Finance, HR, Regulatory, Clinical Development and other relevant functions.

The role focuses on New Markets planning, business operations, operating model, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning and cross-functional execution, complementing the distinct accountabilities of roles responsible for growth initiatives, partnerships and business development .

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning & Enterprise Alignment: Establish and lead the New Markets planning framework, translating agreed enterprise and commercial priorities into integrated business plans, resource requirements and clear measures of progress.
• Enterprise-Wide Orchestration: Manage critical interdependencies across global, regional, functional and country stakeholders, ensuring coordinated delivery of New Markets priorities and timely resolution of cross-organizational issues.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Exercise leadership through influence rather than formal authority, mobilizing diverse stakeholders, fostering shared accountability and enabling effective decision-making across organizational boundaries.
• Strategy-to-Execution: Establish mechanisms that translate strategic priorities into executable plans, milestones, accountabilities and measurable outcomes.
• Executive Thought Partnership: Serve as a senior strategic thought partner to the Head of New Market Development and New Markets leadership, providing structured analysis, perspectives and recommendations on business priorities, organizational requirements and execution challenges.
• Business Operations & Operating Model: Shape and continuously improve the internal New Markets organizational operating model, governance structures, decision processes and ways of working to strengthen organizational effectiveness, scalability and agility.
• Enterprise Planning & Resource Alignment: Establish frameworks that provide leadership with an integrated view of organizational priorities, resource requirements and dependencies to support informed allocation decisions .
• Strategic Workforce Planning: In partnership with HR, Finance and business leaders, lead the strategic workforce planning framework for New Markets, connecting business priorities, organizational capabilities and future resource requirements.
• Organizational Effectiveness: Identify and address organizational and process barriers, clarify interfaces and accountabilities, and strengthen ways of working across the New Markets organization. Leads initiatives and continuous improvement related to business operations, including establishing best practices and assessing key performance metrics.
• Leadership Governance: Design and facilitate senior leadership governance, including leadership forums, business reviews and decision-making processes, ensuring appropriate follow-through on key decisions and commitments.
• Performance & Strategic Insights: Establish mechanisms to assess progress against New Markets strategic priorities, identify emerging risks and dependencies, and provide decision-oriented insights to leadership.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Provide leadership with an integrated view of progress against agreed priorities, key dependencies and emerging risks, generating insights to support timely decision-making.
• Change Leadership: Enable organizational and operating-model changes required to support the evolution and scale of New Markets.

Skills

Significant pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry experience with strong understanding of commercial strategy, market dynamics and the broader drug development and commercialization environment. Demonstrated ability to operate at Executive Director level, influencing senior stakeholders a