About this role

About Innovation Unit China

Innovation Unit China (China R&D Center) is a strategic innovation hub within Boehringer Ingelheim’s global R&D network, established to harness China’s rapidly evolving scientific capabilities and vibrant innovation ecosystem. By integrating Experimental Medicine, External Innovation, Development CMC, and Clinical Pharmacology & Non-clinical Safety Science, IU China connects promising science with early development expertise to accelerate high-potential opportunities, contribute to the global pipeline, and help accelerate breakthrough therapies for patients in China and around the world.

Responsibilities
- DELIVERY RESULTS

• Ensures timely delivery of state-of-the-art scientific concepts, data measurements and analyses for decision making throughout clinical drug development and registration including all necessary processes and documentation, also for complex clinical development projects that represent new challenges (e.g. new modalities, indications etc.).

• Ensures timely delivery of state-of-the-art translational strategy development and implementation, also for clinical development projects that represent new challenges (e.g. new modalities, indications etc.).

• May have line management responsibility of employees incl. capacity planning, hiring and onboarding of new staff, delegation and supervision work packages, co-creation of individual and team development goals, change and conflict management, mentoring, performance evaluation and CP cycle management.

- CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT REPRESENTATION

• May act as representative in project teams for complex projects and regulatory meetings including advisory boards.

- DRIVING SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

• Leads complex clinical development project overarching topics from ExpMED.

• Leads internal and external initiatives/working groups.

• Continuously scouts, evaluates (incl piloting) and implements new methods and technologies.

• Develops new methods and technologies.

• In alignment with functional head, represents respective area of responsibility at internal as well as external meetings and committees and panels.

- STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

• Systematically identifies and implements collaborations and strategic partnerships with external bodies.

• Organizes and manages projects with external organizations (e.g. CROs, ARO).

- FUNCTIONAL PROCESSES

• Leads development and refinement of further functional processes and infrastructure.

- COMPLIANCE (incl GCP)

• Follows all ICH GCP, other relevant authority regulations and BI internal guidance to protect the rights, safety and wellbeing of trial subjects, including sample chain of custody, data privacy and data integrity. In addition, obligations outside the field of clinical studies, such as EHS, Pharmacovigilance, anti-corruption, BI-internal guidance should be followed.

Qualifications
• See job expertise/experience section for details.

• Language skills: English: fluent (Read / Write / Speak).

• Mindful of local, global, internal, and external cultures to ensure that messages are received positively and effectively.

• Evidence of strong teamwork, also in global and remote context.

• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively with people,internally and externally (e.g., CROs, experts, management).

• Ability to pro-actively identify issues and solutions and to interact with internal and external bodies on ExpMED issues.

• Ability to lead and facilitate meetings.

• Ability to develop and deliver training related ExpMED topics.

• Experience in project management and matrix leadership.