Director New Products Strategy and Innovation
Director New Products Strategy and Innovation
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Job Title: Director New Products Strategy and Innovation
Job Location: London UK
Job Location Type: Hybrid
Job Contract Type: Fulltime
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Summary Of The Position
At Ipsen our vision is to be a leading global midsize 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 collaborations.
In 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 a business
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
To support New Products & Franchise Leadership in Oncology Rare Diseases and Neurosciences across:
New Products & External Innovation Strategy
Education / Certifications:
At Ipsen our vision is to be a leading global midsize 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 collaborations.
In 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 a business
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
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 crossfunctional 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.
- Be the commercial lead across all stages of the business development & external innovation process: screening triage/deepdive 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 indepth 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 crossfunctional 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 crossfunctional team and leadership teams
- 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 crossfunctional team & local country teams in prelaunch 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 longterm commercial vision
Education / Certifications:
- Advanced degree (PhD MD or MS) in Life Sciencesrelated discipline and/or an MBA
- Fluency in spoken and written English knowledge of additional languages such as French would be helpful.
- A minimum of 1 3 5 years’ experience in early commercial or BD roles within a pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry at global level or 2 3 – 5 years of Strategy Consulting experience in life sciences (including work in earlycommercial strategy commercialization LCM BD due diligence etc.)
- Experience in early commercial planning launch planning and disease area strategy either as part of a pharmaceutical/ biopharma or a consultancy company
- Experience in working across a crossfunctional matrix team to meet deliverables on time and budget
- Strong scientific medical and commercial experience in oncology and rare diseases with a proven knowledge of business development and launch activities
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Demonstrated exceptional strategic thinking
- Sense of urgency and experience in delivering parallel workstreams efficiently
- Deep strategic marketing expertise (diseases areas in oncology rare disease & neuroscience positioning targeting segmentation life cycle management)
- Strong business acumen and understanding of global markets
- Excellent analytical skills and strategic thinking
- Competitive landscaping
- Conducting qualitative & quantitative market research
- Strong planning and project management skills
- Excellent business case modelling and presentation skills (Excel & PowerPoint use)
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