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At Ipsen, our vision is to be a leading global mid-size biopharmaceutical company, with a focus on transformative medicines in three key therapeutic areas: oncology, rare disease, and neuroscience.Summary / Purpose Of The Position

At Ipsen, our vision is to be a leading global mid-size biopharmaceutical company, with a focus on transformative medicines in three key therapeutic areas: oncology, rare disease, and neuroscience.

A key strategic focus for us to meet this objective is the creation of a balanced and sustainable pipeline that drives commercial success through delivering value to patients’ lives.

The New Product Strategy and Innovation Team is responsible for leading the end-to-end process of setting the therapeutic area strategies, bringing in external assets with our global partnering colleagues, and establishing and implementing early commercialization and pre-launch plans to maximize asset value.

In the last 2-years we have brought in over 20 new assets into our pipeline, and looking forward we will continue to grow and advance this pipeline while launching products across therapeutic areas. As such, the New Product Strategy and Innovation team is expanding its capacity, capabilities, and responsibilities to ensure that we meet the overall objectives and vision of Ipsen’s growing portfolio for patients.

To support this vision, the Senior Director, New Product Strategy and Innovation role will directly contribute to:

Evolution of the Therapeutic Area and Franchise StrategiesCommercial leadership of external asset evaluations in strong collaboration with the Global Partnering and External Innovation TeamCommercial leadership of all internal pipeline assets including early commercial phase 1-2 assets and pre-launch Ph 3 assets until transition to the in-line asset lead and brand team

Main Responsibilities / Job Expectations

Support External Innovation / New Product / Portfolio Strategy:

Lead and update the therapeutic area strategies to drive focus of business development and pipeline advancement activitiesWork with cross-functional colleagues and affiliates as appropriate to enable relevant market knowledge and unmet needs to inform strategy formulationPresent recommendations to executive leadershipConsistently apply the therapeutic area strategies to business development and pipeline advancement decision-making

Find and Evaluate New External / Business Development Opportunities

Represent the commercial team and leadership in all business development and external innovation activitiesBe the commercial lead across all stages of the business development and external innovation process including sourcing, triage, business case development, due diligence, and asset/company internalizationEstablish a strong external expert network in current and target disease areas to understand new asset potential and unmet needsLead in-depth commercial evaluation process (e.g., current and future landscaping, secondary and primary market research, forecasting, pricing and access assessment, SMM estimation, etc.) to inform commercial evaluation and diligenceBe a proactive partner and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams (e.g., business development, external innovation, medical affairs, RandD, regulatory, finance, countries, global pricing and access, business excellence) to support inputs required for commercial modelling and business case developmentEnsure streamlined, efficient, and quality content generation across all evaluations aligning with internal processesOwn and present New Product Strategy and Innovation recommendations to cross-functional team and executive leadership teamsIdentify and implement opportunities to enhance the business development commercial assessment processWork closely with other counterparts across franchises to share best practices and business opportunities

Driving Internal Pipeline Value and Operationalization

Commercial lead for integration of new assets across phases 1 – 3 into Ipsen pipelineApply deal case assumptions to inform initial clinical trial development programsProactively identify opportunities for clinical development program enhancement through application of substantive product development experience, including translation of commercial objectives into trial design considerations in collaboration with cross-functional colleaguesRigorously evaluate alternative development pathways and provide commercial input into optimal development priorities including selected indications, trial design, and trial endpoints in collaboration with RandD colleaguesApply best-in-class launch planning considerations to earlier phase development, including consideration of global value and access and other commercialization critical success factorsClearly characterize commercial vision for the asset at all phases of development and lead strategy and pre-launch plan transition to asset leadGenerally serve as the ‘brand champion’ for early assets to ensure organizational focus and alignmentProvide guidance and best practices to the New Product Strategy and Innovation team regarding optimization of commercial input into early pipeline development

Continued focus on New Product Strategy and Innovation Team Development and Performance

Support the VP, Global Head New Products Strategy and Innovation to identify and deploy relevant training, development and coaching of the team to maximize team growth, performance, and organizational impactIncluding bi-monthly learning sessions, mentoring, external talent evaluation, on-boarding, template/tools and best-practices development

Knowledge, Abilities and Experience

Education / Certifications:

Advanced degree (PhD, MD, or MS) in Life Sciences-related discipline and/or an MBAFluency in spoken and written English, knowledge of additional languages such as French would be helpful.

Experience

A minimum of 7 - 10 years’ in life sciences strategic commercial roles or life sciences strategy consulting experience (including work in early-commercial strategy, commercialization, LCM, BD, due diligence, etc.)Substantial experience in Global Marketing or Global Portfolio Management roles within the biopharmaceutical industry, including experience in early commercial planning, disease area strategy, business development activity, and forecasting is highly valuedExperience leading multiple product and company valuation projects with cross-functional partnersExperience developing cross-functional pre-commercialization plans within pharmaceutical company or management consultingExperience in working across a cross-functional matrix team to meet deliverables on time and budgetStrong scientific, medical, and commercial experience in oncology, neuroscience and/or rare diseases with a proven knowledge of clinical pipeline planning, business development, and launch activitiesCompetitive landscaping experience

Key Technical Competencies Required

Deep strategic marketing expertise (including positioning, targeting, segmentation, launch planning, life cycle management)Strong business acumen and understanding of global marketsExcellent analytical skills and strategic thinking, including forecasting and business case developmentStrong communication and presentation skillsSense of urgency and experience in delivering parallel workstreams efficientlyAbility to successfully navigate multiple projects simultaneouslyQualitative and quantitative market research experienceStrong planning and project management skills

Seniority level

Seniority level Not ApplicableEmployment type

Employment type Full-timeJob function

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