Senior Medical Director, External Innovation and New Products Strategy

Title:

Senior Medical Director, External Innovation and New Products Strategy

Company:

Ipsen Pharma (SAS)

Job Description:

Are you ready to lead and innovate in a dynamic, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company?

Ipsen is a growing global specialty-driven biopharmaceutical company focused on innovation and specialty care. We aim to make a sustainable difference by significantly improving patients’ health and quality of life, providing effective therapeutic solutions for unmet medical needs through differentiated and innovative medicines in Oncology, Neurosciences, and Rare Diseases.

Why Ipsen?

• Patient-Focused: The patient is at the heart of everything we do, and improving their outcomes is the deliverable of every strategy.
• Employee Care: We care for our employees, who are the ambassadors making a real difference.
• Bold Leadership: We attract and develop bold, agile, entrepreneurial individuals who take full ownership of their decisions.
• Growth Opportunities: We offer a wealth of fulfilling challenges and growth opportunities in a fast-moving, game-changing organization.

About the Role

Rare Disease is our true growth engine, and we continue to grow and innovate in this space. The Senior Medical Director, External Innovation and New Product Strategy will provide clear medical analysis of external innovation and business development opportunities for our Rare Diseases portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• External Innovation and Business Development:
  • Actively drive the medical evaluation of external innovation opportunities and contribute to designing the TA External Innovation strategy
  • Evaluate the unmet medical need and value proposition for new assets in collaboration with the commercial and clinical development teams
  • Seize key opportunities to expand Ipsen footprint in the Rare Diseases TA through interactions with internal and external stakeholders
  • Create with the cross functional-team a ‘Think Tank’ to Advise on the search strategy for Areas of unmet need in Rare Diseases.
• Operating Model:
  • Design and maintain the operating model and deliverables for medical evaluation to provide timely support to the external innovation efforts
  • Identify opportunities to ensure a comprehensive and expedited medical evaluation of new assets, including the utilization of external resources
• Franchise Medical/Product Strategy:
  • Be the voice of Medical Affairs Rare Diseases working across Assets and provide medical guidance and active input to global launch strategy
  • Support implementation of fully integrated global medical affairs plans across Rare Diseases  portfolio
• Relationship & Network Building:
  • Develop, expand, and nurture relationships with scientific societies and collaborative groups in support of Franchise external visibility.

Qualifications

• MD preferred, PhD considered
• Experience in Rare Diseases desirable.
• High thinking dexterity and social agility with a true mission and values orientation.
• Experience in assessment of new and novel assets a distinct advantage.

Ipsen is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered. If you feel that this could be the right next step for you, we would be delighted to engage with your application.

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Dans le cadre de ses recrutements IPSEN s’engage au respect de l’égalité de traitement des candidats, indépendamment du sexe, de l’âge, de l'orientation sexuelle, de l'origine ethnique, de la couleur de la peau, de la nationalité, du handicap ou de l'appartenance à un syndicat.