Vice President, Patient Operations

The role

The VP, Patient Operations will shape strategy and oversee the execution of patient scheduling and apheresis operations. This role focuses on risto-cel and defining commercialization strategies for next-generation hematology and in vivo genetic medicines products.

What you will do

• Define strategy for Patient Operations, including patient scheduling rules, manufacturing slot allocation, and exception management.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, IT and others to ensure scalable processes.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership regarding the implementation of a cell therapy orchestration platform.
• Partner with Key Account Management to define organizational needs to support apheresis operations at treatment centers.
• Build and manage teams to execute patient scheduling and apheresis operations.

Required qualifications

• BS/BA in a relevant academic field
• Typically 17+ years with 12+ years experience within the pharma/biotech/biopharma space in roles of progressively increasing responsibility
• Proven track record in cross-functional leadership role or other cross-disciplinary background with successful team leadership experience
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and collaborative nature
• Experience with U.S. commercialization

Nice to have

• MBA, MD, PhD, or other graduate degree
• Experience in gene and/or cell therapy, particularly in autologous cell therapy
• Experience in both large and small company environments

About the company

Beam Therapeutics is a biotechnology company committed to establishing the leading, fully integrated platform for precision genetic medicines. The company uses base editing technology to advance a diversified portfolio of base editing programs.