
Director, GCO Clinical Program Lead (GCPL)
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The Director, GCO Clinical Program Lead is accountable for strategic operational planning and clinical operational performance across designated programs. The role leads global Clinical Study Managers, represents Global Clinical Operations in program governance, and supports strategy and execution for internal and external partnership studies. It requires collaboration across functions and time zones, with travel up to 20%.
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Full job description
General Description:
At BeOne, our Global Development SuperHighway — our integrated, end-to-end, wholly internal development capability — is a cornerstone of our R&D vision. It brings together a unique set of internal cross-functional capabilities from across the globe needed for efficient delivery of clinical trials to develop impactful medicines to accelerate access to innovation for patients around the world.
We are now opening this same delivery engine to the world’s most promising external science. Through SuperHighway partnerships, highly promising assets from leading biotech partners can access our development capabilities creating a true win-win ecosystem with the ultimate goal of helping more patients around the world. This is not a fee-for-service model; it is a bold new way to grow the company and expand what’s possible in oncology. This is a rare opportunity to help build something genuinely new — joining a high-caliber, agile team at the leading edge of clinical development innovation. If you are energized by building, by challenging the status quo, and by making a real impact on patients’ lives, this is where you belong.
Leveraging deep Therapeutic Area expertise, solid global program management skills, global view, and borderless leadership, the GCO Program Lead is accountable for the strategic operational planning and clinical operational performance, of designated programs and acts as a point of escalation for the resolution of issues of the studies within responsible program(s).
Provide strategic leadership to global Clinical Study Managers across designated programs by setting clear expectations, fostering a culture of accountability and proactive risk management, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Act as a mentor and coach to develop talent, drive performance excellence, and support career growth through regular feedback and development planning. Collaborate cross-functionally to enable program success and maintain high standards of delivery.
Partner with other program leads/functional representatives in BeOne R&D to drive disease/asset strategy and ensure execution excellence by contributing clinical operations insights and expertise at the program level.
This is an international role and requires working with colleagues in various time zones.
This role helps deliver the partnership studies that run on our Clinical SuperHighway, supporting seamless onboarding and high-quality execution of external partner projects in close partnership with the execution functions.
Essential Functions of the Job:
Strategic leadership and management
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Accountable and responsible for building, developing and retaining the global team of gCSM, including hiring, training, mentoring, developing direct and indirect reports, performance appraisals and resource management.
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Oversee the delivery and goal achievement of projects within the designated program(s), serving as the point of escalation for resolving issues that gCSM cannot resolve.
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Collaborate with the other GCPLs and Franchise Heads (FH) to define and implement strategies and key priorities across-programs, and establish global standards for goals, performance measures, and capability development for the gCSM roles.
GCO Representative for the designated program(s)
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In coordination with Franchise Head, Accountable to the Franchise ERC, DCT and other governance teams as appropriate as GCO representative, to provide clinical operational insight to drive the program strategy and ensure excellence in execution.
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Lead/participate in the KOL engagement activities in the designated programs and may act as function spokesperson if needed.
Program Management
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Evaluate and develop strategic feasibility and budget estimates during Early Planning for new CDPs and upon strategy change during the conduct of a study, where needed.
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Accountable for resource allocation and initiating CST formation; ensures appropriate transition of outputs from early planning to the gCSM.
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Create and be accountable for the annual program budget and resource forecasts, as well as contributing to and tracking the relevant DCT goals for the program.
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Create, review, and provide input to and maintain compound-level documents such as IB, DSUR, and protocol.
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Oversee timely, quality, and efficient study planning and execution of associated studies within the allocated program.
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Conduct regular program review meetings to mentor, support, and ensure all studies are tracking to the DCT/DRC-approved budget and timeline.
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Report on study status, goals, and operational KPIs, and enforce quality KPIs with support from the Compliance team.
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Collaborate with other GCPLs to evaluate and designate preferred global vendors and participate in vendor governance meetings.
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Create or review performance and development plans for direct reports, facilitate and support delivery of performance and development goals.
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Provide line management and mentorship to gCSMs working within the designated program(s).
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Inspire and lead efforts to deepen scientific knowledge within the Clinical Operations’ function.
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Champions a global mindset and approach across Clinical Operations to foster collaboration and consistency across the organization.
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Provide expert knowledge on the execution of clinical trials through a deep understanding of ICH/GCP Guidelines and other applicable regulatory requirements.
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Point of escalation for all compound-related issues.
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Identify and drive process improvement initiatives in collaboration with Franchise Head and/or other GCPLs within program.
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Collaborates with cross-functional leaders to provide operational perspectives to enable effective and efficient delivery of clinical development goals.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Line-manages direct reports of Global Clinical Study Managers (gCSMs).
Computer Skills: MS Office; Project Planning Applications; Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS)
Other Qualifications:
- Project management exposure/experience across the entire lifecycle of multi-region/country clinical trials in a fast-paced global environment. Experience in both people management and program management preferred.
Travel: Up to 20%. Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
How this job compares
Set against the 603 open Clinical Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$158–207K/yr39 salary ranges
- US median$29–52/hr90 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 88 open Clinical Operations jobs in California and 603 across the US. 17% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- BeOne Medicines (this employer)21 open
- UnitedHealth Group10 open
- Kaiser Permanente8 open
- Experience
- Clinical Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (511 postings).
- Education
- 237 of the 603 open Clinical Operations jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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