Associate Director, Publications and Scientific Communications

BeiGene 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:

This Associate Director of Global Publications has direct accountability for the development and industry-compliant execution of strategic publication plans. As part of the role, this person will engage and collaborates with internal colleagues as well as external experts, investigators, journals, conference organizers, and external partners. The role also collaborates with regional affiliates to develop and maintain an integrated external scientific communication plan. This role will be responsible for managing vendors, publication review committee(s), and facilitating Medical, Regulatory, and Compliance (MRC) review in development of new publication concepts (as needed). In addition, the publication manager will facilitate and drive cross-functional development of scientific statements and lexicon and contribute to the overall scientific communication strategy, demonstrating a strong knowledge of the therapeutic landscape. This person will be responsible for ensuring ethical compliance with BeiGene policy and external publications guidelines. Additionally, this role will ensure that all publications represent transparent and balanced communications that enhance BeiGene’s external scientific reputation.

Essential Functions:

• Contribute to the overall scientific communication strategy, demonstrating a strong knowledge of the therapeutic landscape.
• Direct accountability for the development and execution of strategic publication plans aligned with medical strategies and objectives
• Track existing publication plans to ensure alignment with established medical strategies and objectives.
• Day-to-day management of assigned publications, as well as delivery of outputs, financial tracking, and meeting activities, while working closely with all members of the delivery team.
• Manage external agency partners to ensure accuracy of publication plan and publication deliverables with respect time, quality, and cost, and ensuring correct compliance documentation is in place including budgetary responsibilities.
• Support the development of training materials related to BeiGene and competitor congress presentations.
• Interact with external authors and cross-functional collaborators to develop and review publication concepts and content.
• Track and report the progress of publication development, (with vendor support) to document project status, drafts, author comments, and BeiGene reviews/approvals.
• Understand published guidelines for authorship and good publication practices.
• Ensure that publication activities are within company policies, procedures and good publications practices.

Minimum Requirements – Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in health sciences or communication field or relevant post-graduate degree.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry, a consulting organization, and/or a medical communications company as a publication manager/ medical writer.

Other Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in medical communications gained through working within other biotech/pharmaceutical companies or a medical communications agency.
• Proven experience with a global publications database management system (eg, PubSTRAT, DataVision, etc.).
• Excellent leadership and project management skills to deliver in a complex multidisciplinary organization.
• Broad understanding of the drug development process.
• Clear and effective communication skills.
• A blend of strategic agility and tactical execution skills.
• Demonstrated performance, budget, and resource management skills in a global organization.
• Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships with external experts, investigator, journal editor, publishers, and professional bodies.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple stakeholders and projects to within budget.
• Flexibility and adaptability to manage long-term activities in a constantly changing internal and external environment
• Experience working globally, cross-culturally, and cross-functionally.
• Ability to understand and adhere to good publication practices and relevant guidelines on and scientific data communication, such as ICMJE, GPP3, and company policy and SOPs.

Supervisory Responsibilities:  NA

Travel:  Work related travel approximately 15%

Computer Skills:   Efficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook

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BeiGene Global Competencies

When we exhibit our values of Patients First, Collaborative Spirit, Bold Ingenuity and Driving Excellence, 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

BeiGene 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 BeiGene 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 and we value diversity. BeiGene 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.