Director, Products Strategy and Innovation

Director, New Products Strategy And Innovation

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 company's success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society!

Job Description:

To support New Products & Franchise Leadership in Oncology, Rare Diseases and Neurosciences across:

• Therapeutic Area & Franchise Strategy Evolution
• Commercial evaluations of new global business opportunities
• Business Development / External Innovation
• Internal Pipeline Commercial Planning

New Products & External Innovation Strategy

• Support New Products Head and work collaboratively with cross-functional team leading strategy process (e.g., business development, external innovation, franchise, R&D, strategy & transformation)
• Conduct analysis across key areas to support the continuous evolution and update of the therapeutic area strategy (e.g., landscaping assessments, benchmarking, analogue analysis etc.) and develop story / slide generation of strategic outputs as they evolve.
• Work with internal Asset Teams as appropriate to capture relevant insights to support external innovation strategy.

Business Development & External Innovation:
Commercial Evaluations

• Be the commercial lead across all stages of the business development & external innovation process: screening, triage/deep-dive and due diligence
• Sourcing & Screening:
  Work in collaboration with external innovation teams in sourcing new assets across oncology and rare diseases based on our strategy
• Asset Triaging: (1) Lead the commercial triage of new business development opportunities, including disease assessment, competitive landscaping, market sizing and risk & opportunity assessment; (2) Representing Franchise on company calls with potential partners
• Due Diligence:
  Lead the commercial evaluation of assets in due diligence
• Conduct in-depth commercial evaluation and be the lead content generator (e.g., current & future landscaping, secondary and primary market research, forecasting, pricing & access assessment, SMM estimation, etc.)
• Be a proactive partner and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams (e.g., business development, external innovation, medical affairs, R&D, regulatory, finance, countries, global pricing & access, business excellence) to support inputs required for commercial modelling launch dates, LOE, duration of treatment, LCM indications etc.
• Ensure streamlined, efficient, and quality content generation across all evaluations aligning with internal processes
• Synthesize findings & present recommendations to cross-functional team and leadership teams

Internal Pipeline:
Early Commercial Planning

• Lead early commercial planning process for internal pipeline products across oncology and rare diseases.
  
  E.g.,
• Indication prioritization, portfolio strategy, LCM planning, business case development
• Facilitate analysis required to support commercialization and/or continued development for new products
• Support the cross-functional team & local country teams in pre-launch activities, playing a pivotal role in the transition of these activities to a fully dedicated Global Brand Team as the asset moves through the lifecycle.
  
  E.g.
• Key deliverables:
  Brand strategy & launch plan, launch readiness review, campaign & core messaging​, global launch sequence​, LCM indications prioritization​ etc.
• Work collaboratively with R&D and other critical functions within the Global Asset Team to ensure efficient execution with a long-term commercial vision

Knowledge, abilities & experience

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