BD Strategy Operations & Excellence Lead

Title:

BD Strategy Operations & Excellence Lead

Company:

Ipsen Pharma (SAS)

About Ipsen:

Ipsen is a mid-sized global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on transformative medicines in three therapeutic areas: Oncology Rare Disease and Neuroscience. Supported by nearly 100 years of development experience with global hubs in the U.S. France and the U.K we tackle areas of high unmet medical need through research and innovation.

Our passionate teams in more than 40 countries are focused on what matters and endeavor every day to bring medicines to patients in 88 countries. We build a workplace that champions human-centric leadership and fosters a culture of collaboration excellence and impact. At Ipsen every individual is empowered to be their true selves grow and thrive alongside the companys success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth creating real impact on patients and society!

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Job Description:

The Ipsen Global Partnering department includes the Business Development and Strategic Alliances Group activities. The department mission is to strengthen Ipsen products pipeline by identifying engaging and leading key partnerships and alliances with other pharmaceutical/biotech companies to drive innovation and fuel Ipsen growth in Oncology Rare Disease and Neuroscience.

The Strategy & Operations department aims at supporting at best GPEI & Friends team (i.e. Global Partnering External Innovation and all departments involved in BD / M&A activities within Ipsen) by bringing structure excellence and transversality in the management of deals and partners for Ipsen.

The BD Strategy Operations & Excellence Lead will be part of the Ipsen Global Partnering team and will report to the VP Strategy & Operations Head Global Partnering.

This role has a global scope with cross-functional /enterprise-wide impact.

In this role the selected candidate will be accountable for continuing the Ipsen Global Partnering transformation towards excellence and ensuring the successful delivery of key corporate objectives related to GPEI.

Specifically the BD Strategy Operations & Excellence Lead will drive autonomously the GPEI Operations pillar as well as the VC management and drive ad hoc strategic projects (transformation initiatives operational business improvement initiatives highly strategic presentation).

To be successful the incumbent will have to collaborate with key cross-functional stakeholders within Ipsen such as R&D Legal Value & Access Finance HR Business Operations

He/She will:

• Lead and own the operating model and lead with autonomy GPEI Operations

• Evolve and maintain the operational processes related to deal making and alliances management document them and upgrade them according to teams and Ipsens needs (inc. maintenance of Deal Process playbook)

• Define and govern performance management framework KPIs and executive dashboards. Track compliance with the use of the partnering database

• Lead process track deliverables highlight risks to timeline execution and prepare core communications for Leadership.

• Drive strategic transformation notably by leading key projects (e.g. Global and cross-functional) as needed.

• Provide strategic challenge and risk-based recommendations to support leadership decisions

• Adapt in an agile way to keep in perspective the big picture and effective implementation of plans and strategies

• Work with EVPs and VPs to develop align and monitor Strategic Priorities and Roadmap

• Create decision frameworks for prioritization of initiatives resources and governance topics.

• Translate analysis into clear options for decision notably by identifying strategic risks trade-offs and options and propose mitigation scenarios as well as anticipating key leadership questions

• Lead strategic cross-functional workstreams without formal authority ensuring alignment across different involved partners: GP EI DD&I NPPS M&A Finance Legal

• Act as a catalyst for alignment between senior stakeholders functions and external partners.

• Autonomously collaborate with senior leaders and colleagues across the group.

The incumbent is exposed on a regular basis to EVPs/SVPs levels hence needs to be capable of interacting autonomously at that level.

Technical Competencies:

• Strategic thinking including but not limited to complex problems solving structured analytical reasoning organizational skills good planning prioritization and time management

• Executive-level strategic problem solving

• Result-oriented and bold mindset creativity and out of the box thinking. Ability to identify risks build and implement mitigation plan proactively

• Enterprise-level stakeholder management

• Strong executive communication and storylining

• Project Leadership

• Business development acumen and/or Financial analyst experience

• Scientific and/or pharmaceutical operations knowledges

• Team-spirit and collaborative mindset tackling challenges as a group with the ability to work alone to produce deliverables as part of a larger team
• AI-enabled productivity and analytics mindset

Knowledge & Experience (essential):

Business school and / or Scientific degree (PhD PharmD MD...) or similar relevant degree(s)

10 years of relevant work experience in life sciences including at least 3 to 5 years of successful experience in strategy consulting

Consulting experience and knowledge of healthcare environment ideally including a general understanding of

drug development regulatory processes commercial medical and market access dynamics

Outstanding track record of success in past professional and academic endeavours

Skills & Attributes:

Strong social agility required to influence outcomes working with all levels of the organization particularly

senior leadership

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with comfort preparing research to facilitate development of

solutions that address critical business needs

Communication and interpersonal and facilitation skills necessary to drive alignment including experience of

preparing and delivering presentations

Ability to interface with technical and scientific experts colleagues across functions and company senior

leadership

Proven ability to scope lead develop and manage projects

Experience of People Management (consulting or other) and playing active role in coaching and upskilling team

Members (transversally and/or hierarchically)

Language(s) (essential):

• English (excellent written and spoken)

Language(s) (preferred):

• French

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