Senior Director, Head of Rare Disease Asset Operations

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** Senior Director, Head of Rare Disease Asset Operations
** 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 company’s success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society!

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* Job Title:

Senior Director of Operations - Asset Operations Lead (AOL)
Division / Function:
** R&D Operations
** Manager (Name, Job Title):
** R&D Project Management Office Head
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* Location:

Paris, FR / Paddington, UK / Cambridge, US
** Summary / purpose of the position
** Ipsen’s goal is to launch one significant product or indication per year, every year, which will be facilitated by transforming R&D, Franchise and Industrial into an even higher performing organization (asset centric model) with the ultimate goal of leaving no patient behind.

The main mission of the AOL is to implement the asset roadmap by driving the cross functional asset team and to be the right hand to the Asset Lead across the product lifecycle.

He/she is responsible for the implementation of the asset strategy, tactics and plans endorsed by the governance bodies to ensure the delivery of commercially viable products. He/she ensures that all steps of the development plan are anticipated, planned, coordinated and followed-up to result in the most efficient process. He/she monitors and tracks expenditure against budgets and support resource management against agreed strategic objectives for the program.

He/she is responsible for ensuring coherent and consistent communication between project functions and for ensuring key issues are reported to the executives in due time and to work with senior team members on issue resolution.

When required by the asset team structure, he/she will be supported by Global Project Managers supporting cross-functional work streams.
** Main responsibilities / job expectations**
* ** Program Leadership
*** Work in partnership with the Asset Lead and Franchise Heads to develop and implement overall asset strategy to deliver sustainable product growth in the 5-10-year timeframe
* Drive development of the global program level goals that contribute to the overall objectives for the IPSEN portfolio
* Create a climate that fosters personal investment and excellence and nurtures commitment to common goals
* Facilitate the process for evaluation of alternative development options to deliver programs
• Facilitate win/win solutions for program/team conflicts with big picture in mind. Promote ideas persuasively and build on the ideas of others
* ** Program Management
*** Align Integrated Development Plan across functional lines
* Drive cross functional asset team to prepare Target Product Profiles and global plans to deliver differentiated products under the scientific, medical and commercial leadership of the Asset Lead.
* Partner with functional leads to ‘pressure-test’ assumptions and integrate function planning across development into the overall program plan, (e.g. CMC, Regulatory, Clinical, Biostatistics, Technical Operations, Commercial, Medical Affairs, Safety, etc.).
* Define the interdependent deliverables and ensures that quality, risk, cost, time are managed within the overall approved plan to drive delivery of asset roadmap milestones and objectives on time and on budget.
* Ensure that the plan is realistic for all R&D functions as well as for Tech Ops, BD, Alliance,…