Research associate Jobs in Binningen

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.

Purpose of the Role:

The Associate Director, Health Technology Assessment Operations is responsible for the operational coordination and delivery of assigned HTA activities, including JCA, JSC, operational value dossiers and country HTA evidence packages.

The role manages project plans, cross-functional inputs, dossier-development and review processes, vendors and, where relevant, submissions through HTA platforms. Working with GVAP Asset Leads, Value Demonstration, HEOR and other cross-functional partners, the Associate Director supports integration of HTA requirements into evidence planning and helps ensure assets are prepared for HTA decision-making.

The role translates approved access and evidence strategies into an integrated HTA operational roadmap and escalates risks, issues and decisions to the appropriate accountable role.

The position will primarily support solid tumor assets but may be assigned to other assets by the Director, HTA Operations, based on business and portfolio needs.

Key Responsibilities:

HTA activities

• Coordinate the day-to-day operational delivery of assigned HTA activities, including JCA and JSC
• Coordinate and track cross-functional contributions to HTA dossiers, operational value dossiers and country evidence packages.
• Support the development, maintenance, review and adaptation of operational value dossiers and other reusable HTA evidence resources.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to support integration of HTA requirements into development programmes, including trial design, comparator strategy, endpoint selection and evidence generation activities.
• Support and collaborate with the Director, Value Demonstration & Access Evidence Strategy to ensure HTA requirements are incorporated into indication and therapeutic-area integrated evidence plans.
• Collaborate with GVAP Asset Leads to ensure assets are prepared for both EU-level and local HTA decision-making.
• Support regional and country access teams with evidence packages, country HTA submissions and responses to HTA information requests.
• Coordinate JSC request forms, briefing books, review cycles, meeting preparation and submission activities.

Operations & Cross-functional coordination

• Organize programme meetings, including agendas, meeting materials, minutes, decision logs, action tracking and follow-up.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, deliverables and submission schedules.
• Track programme milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions and action items across assigned HTA activities.
• Identify emerging delivery issues and escalate them with an assessment of impact and proposed mitigation options.
• Collaborate with GVAP Asset Leads to ensure that clinical, economic and patient-centred evidence is translated into operational value dossiers and HTA dossiers.
• Coordinate external vendor activities and monitor delivery against agreed scope, timelines and quality requirements.

Internal Expertise Building & Continuous Improvement

• Document lessons learned and support implementation of improvements to HTA workflows, dossier templates, operational value dossier structures, trackers and collaboration tools.
• Contribute to HTA knowledge management, training, onboarding and maintenance of reusable evidence and operational resources.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, health economics, pharmacy, public health, health policy, business or a related discipline.
• Advanced degree, such as an MSc, MPH, PharmD, PhD or MBA, preferred.
• At least 6 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry. Experience must include HTA, evidence generation or market access; regulatory or medical affairs experience is welcome in addition to core experience requirement.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional projects with multiple workstreams, contributors and dependencies.
• Strong project-management and organizational skills, including detailed planning, milestone tracking, action management, risk identification and documentation control.
• Working knowledge of Regulation (EU) 2021/2282, JCA dossier requirements, JSC processes, relevant implementing acts and the EU HTA procedural environment.
• Contributed to at least one JCA dossier or JSC under the HTAR, or to national HTA dossiers (e.g., AMNOG, HAS/CT, AIFA)
• Experience in operationalizing global value dossiers, HTA submission content, and payer value evidence in partnership with HEOR.
• Experience working with external vendors and monitoring deliverables against agreed timelines and requirements.
• Strong scientific and medical literacy, with the ability to understand clinical, epidemiological and evidence-based information.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, identify emerging risks and escalate issues clearly and promptly.
• Ability to work independently within an agreed strategy, governance framework and project plan.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Business and technical (medical/scientific) fluency in German or French preferred, sufficient to coordinate and review national supplementary (delta) HTA dossiers and related correspondence in the local language.
• Oncology or hematology experience preferred.

Education Required:

Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, health economics, pharmacy, public health, health policy, business or a related discipline required.

Advanced degree, such as an MSc, MPH, PharmD, PhD or MBA, preferred.

Location & Ways of Working

This role can be based in Switzerland (Basel area) or performed US-remote. International travel is expected to support cross-functional and regional collaboration. Working hours will have significant overlap with CET for affiliate coordination and JCA or JSC deadlines.

Travel: Limited travel may be required, up to 10%

Salary Range Switzerland: 172,200.00 CHF - 215,300.00 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