Director, Products Strategy and Innovation

Position: Director, New Products Strategy and Innovation
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R-21313
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* Title:

** Director, New Products Strategy Innovation
** Company:
** Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Inc.
** 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 company’s success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society!

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* 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 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 in meeting this objective is business development & partnering. In the last three years, we brought in over 20 new assets into our portfolio across various stages of development and across our three key therapeutic areas through licensing, partnering and  2025 and beyond, we plan to continue our strategic focus and execution in creating a balanced & sustainable pipeline across therapeutic areas.

As such we are looking to expand our New Products team to lead the commercial evaluations of external opportunities and support planning around our internal pipeline with overall goal to meet our strategic objectives & vision as business. Provide a brief overview of the position's purpose, its role within the organization, and impact  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…