Associate Director, Business Analytics and Strategic Planning

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Associate Director, Business Analytics and Strategic Planning

Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Canada Inc.

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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The role is responsible for leading the Commercial business processes associated with Strategic Planning, Forecasting, Business Reporting, Market Analytics and Launch Excellence .The vision for this role is to build and lead an organizational center of excellence that focuses on driving innovation and enhancing the speed and quality of corporate decision making through the generation of patient, customer, and market insights.

The Business Analytics & Strategic Planning role will also have responsibilities as Chief of Staff for the Ipsen Canada Leadership Team. These responsibilities include managing the ICLT meeting agendas and logistics, capturing meeting actions, and monitoring progress against the approved actions. In addition, the role will also be responsible for planning and facilitating the annual ICLT strategic planning activities and will lead ad hoc corporate projects that are deemed to be strategically critical to the business.

Successfully executing this mandate requires an individual with strong business acumen built upon extensive pharmaceutical commercial experience and an advanced understanding of pharmaceutical planning, forecasting and analytics. This will be supported by a consistent track record of integrating disparate pieces of information to identify trends, outlining the relevant business implications, and distilling the findings into clear business recommendations. In addition, it will also be important to demonstrate exceptional influence and impact skills to driving consensus and alignment regarding these recommendations at all levels of the organization.

Within Ipsen Canada, this role will be viewed as a critical business resource that will work in close partnership with the Commercial Business Units and the Ipsen Canada Leadership Team to meeting planning milestones, monitor business performance and proactively identify opportunities and risks.

• Chief of Staff for the Ipsen Canada Leadership Team (ICLT)
• Leading Corporate strategic planning activities and monitor progress versus plan objectives
• Leading Enterprise-wide corporate projects that are deemed to be strategically critical to the business
• Leading local development of forecasts and analytics ensuring tight integration with Global Commercial requirements and local financial planning deliverables
• Leading the commercial assessment of Ipsen new product and business development opportunities
• Leading the development and ongoing management of the Ipsen Canada Launch Excellence capability
• Leveraging primary and secondary research insights and team brand inputs to build accurate, actionable, and evidenced…