Director, Talent Development, APAC

About us

BeiGene is a global oncology company that is discovering and developing innovative treatments that are more affordable and accessible to cancer patients worldwide. With a broad portfolio, we are expediting development of our diverse pipeline of novel therapeutics through our internal capabilities and collaborations. We are committed to radically improving access to medicines for far more patients who need them. Our growing global team of more than 10,000 colleagues spans five continents, with administrative offices in Basel, Beijing, and Cambridge, U.S. To learn more about BeiGene, please visit www.beigene.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X (formerly known as Twitter).

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.

Job Description:

About the Position

• The role is accountable for driving and taking ownership of the APAC Talent Development (TD) objectives setting, defining, aligning and executing a robust & strategic TD plan to support the key business priorities and growth of the APAC region; ensuring the region’s talent development requirements are met whilst maximizing the TD effectiveness and investment in return.

Main Responsibilities

• As the APAC regional representative of the Global TD team, build trusting relationships with all stakeholders including the APAC Leadership Team.
• Play a proactive role to understand key stakeholders’ perspectives and design, develop, and deliver a wide range of developmental and learning initiatives to suit the local/country needs.
• Partner with HRBPs and people managers to systematically assess the APAC team’s competency levels and development priorities, maximize the usage of Global TD resources and shape APAC TD strategy in line with regional and country people and business goals and industry best practice.
• Build and implement learning journeys beyond one-off programs, to enable learning transfer and help talents to achieve mindset shifts to optimize performance and develop competencies in the most effective and efficient ways.
• Expand and enrich the 70 and 20 components of the current BeiGene program contents, capitalize and build more experience-based and exposure-based opportunities and initiatives.
• Identify strategic and outcome-oriented measurements to monitor the execution and impacts of the TD strategy with focus on participants’ behavioural change and deliver sustainable improvements of team effectiveness and business results.
• Shape the life-long learning culture, engage business leaders to share the ownership of talent development, and enable their deeper involvement in the designing and delivery of TD initiatives and programs.
• Collaborate with HRBP and other HR Centre of Excellence functions to support the implementation of critical HR initiatives and processes via purposefully planned TD intervention.
• Promote ownership of self-development, and leverage technology strategically when appropriate.

Qualification Required:

• 10+ year experiences as a TD practitioner in an in-house role and experience in leadership capacity.
• Bachelor and/or above degree in HR related or business administration. Certifications in learning and development or related fields will be highly regarded.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing TD strategies and programs in a matrix organization. Experience gained from pharma / life science industry is an advantage.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Additional language skills (Japanese, Korean, etc.) and cross-cultural understanding would be beneficial
• Strategic thinking capability, strong analytical ability, sound judgement and effective decision- making.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to simultaneously manage competing priorities.
• Proven ability to design and deliver general professional skills and leadership programs, solid training facilitation skills.
• Strong attention to detail, excellent end-to-end planning execution and administration skills.
• Proficient in PowerPoint, Excel, collaboration tools e.g. MS Team and Zoom, and Copilot.
• Good understanding of learning management systems (LMS) and is technology savvy.
• Demonstrated maturity, professionalism, teamwork, resilience, and adaptability required for a fast- paced and high growth environment.

Education Required:

• Bachelor and/or above degree in HR related or business administration.

What We Offer To Our Valued Employees

• Market competitive compensation package including performance-based annual bonus scheme
• Company shares (generous welcome grant and performance-based annual equity plan!)
• In-house and external learning and development opportunities
• Fantastic benefits program and keep improving!
• Plus you get to work with a dynamic team of collaborative, supportive, inclusive, and fun professionals whose mission is clear: Cancer has no borders and neither do we.
• Join us and Make momentum in your career!

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

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