Head of Strategy & Operations, New Markets

Location: Basel

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 across functions, geographies and organizational boundaries.
• Exceptional strategic thinking and planning capabilities, with the ability to translate complex business challenges into clear priorities and executable approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise leadership through influence rather than formal authority.
• Strong cross-functional leadership capabilities and proven ability to create alignment among stakeholders with different objectives and accountabilities.
• Strong executive presence and ability to engage constructively with senior and executive leadership.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, including the ability to synthesize complex topics into concise, decision-oriented executive communications.
• Strong understanding of organizational design, business operations, governance and strategic workforce planning.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities and establish structure in complex and evolving business environments.
• Strong business judgment combined with disciplined execution and the ability to anticipate organizational risks and dependencies.
• Enterprise mindset with the ability to balance New Markets priorities with broader organizational objectives.
• Ensure successful, well-run meetings, drive agenda setting and allocate time appropriately across topics, provide context to agenda topics, and draft post-meeting minutes.
• Oversee the design, organization and execution of leadership events

Education and Experience

• Advanced degree in business, science, engineering or a related field preferred.
• At least 14+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology or a related life-sciences industry.
• Significant experience in strategy, business operations, strategic planning, organizational effectiveness and/or commercial leadership.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional programs across multiple functions and geographies.
• Demonstrated experience influencing senior leadership and driving outcomes without direct authority.
• International, regional and/or New Markets experience necessary.
• Salary Range Switzerland: 257,600.00 CHF - 322,000.00 CHF

Global Competencies

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

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. BeOne 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.