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Associate Director, Global R&D Sourcing
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: Role Purpose This position plays a critical role in leveraging external solutions—including CRO partnerships, digitalization, and AI—to improve cost efficiency, accelerate delivery, and enhance quality across R&D. Business Partnering and Cost Optimization The role serves as a business partner to R&D functions, helping identify cost optimization opportunities, develop practical solutions, and support implementation in alignment with the R&D superhighway. Category Strategy and External Resourcing This position is responsible for category management of CRO and FSP outsourcing. It partners with cross-functional stakeholders to define outsourcing and external resourcing strategies, support vendor and partner selection, and enable effective execution. Vendor Management and Governance The role also leads vendor management activities, including maintaining strategic supplier relationships, resolving issues, tracking performance, and organizing governance meetings to ensure supplier quality oversight and maximize the value of external partnerships. Essential Functions of the Job: Category Strategy and Market Intelligence Monitor trends in the R&D CRO/FSP market, external resourcing models, and broader industry developments to inform category strategy. Engage R&D business stakeholders to understand outsourcing needs and translate them into function- and study-level category, outsourcing, and vendor strategies. Lead category management initiatives that optimize external spend, strengthen supplier value, and improve sourcing outcomes. Business Partnering and Cost Optimization Build trusted partnerships with internal stakeholders and serve as a strategic so