Jobs at Ascendis Pharma

Own the vision, roadmap, priorities, and backlog for Product Supply IT solutions. Partner with stakeholders and cross-functional Agile teams to translate business needs into digital outcomes, improve product capabilities, support stable daily operations, resolve incidents, and manage relevant vendors and contracts. The role requires strong facilitation, communication, stakeholder alignment, and understanding of product supply, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, or ERP processes.

Provides proactive executive and operational support to the Chief Regulatory & Safety Officer and GRAPS Leadership Team. Responsibilities include complex calendar and travel management, meeting and governance coordination, briefing materials, action tracking, expenses, events, vendor and purchasing coordination, onboarding, executive communications, records management, and confidential stakeholder support across global time zones.

Develop and maintain global scientific training curricula for Medical Affairs teams, facilitate in-person and virtual learning sessions, assess training effectiveness, support employee onboarding and fellowship programs, and apply innovative learning technologies. The role collaborates with scientific subject matter experts, adapts content for diverse cultures and audiences, and promotes continuous learning across the organization.

Supports scientists and laboratory staff by troubleshooting laboratory hardware and software, configuring workstations and instrument-connected devices, managing specialized applications and licenses, and documenting IT solutions. Collaborates with global IT teams, subject matter experts, and service providers to maintain secure, stable, and compliant laboratory environments.

Supports finance operations by processing invoices, auditing expenses, managing accruals, maintaining expense management processes, creating and maintaining purchase orders, and administering corporate credit cards. Provides training, mailbox support, error resolution, and policy compliance assistance while collaborating with multiple business functions.

Lead full-cycle recruitment for a global biopharma: source, screen, interview, advise hiring managers, manage vendors, and ensure excellent candidate experience. Improve TA processes and support global stakeholders, occasionally across time zones.

Designs and develops data products that translate business needs into actionable insights across the drug development domain. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, transforming complex data, building end-to-end analytics solutions, creating prototypes, and ensuring governance, compliance, and data quality. The role partners with global stakeholders and requires hands-on experience with DevOps, Databricks, dbt, Python, T-SQL, and Power BI.

Manages global and regional clinical trials from planning through completion, ensuring timelines, quality, ICH-GCP compliance, data integrity, and regulatory readiness. Responsibilities include site and investigator relationships, monitoring oversight, protocol deviation management, study team training, TMF and CTMS maintenance, vendor management, IRB submissions, audit preparation, clinical data review, and coordination with CRAs, data management, and clinical vendors.

Leads the pharmacovigilance Individual Case Safety Report management team, overseeing case processing, follow-up, regulatory submissions, vendor performance, quality, compliance, data integrity, CAPA, training, and process improvement. Advises cross-functional teams on drug safety, supports inspections and audits, collaborates on safety databases and reporting agreements, and manages team strategy, budgets, staffing, and organizational development.

Manage ICSR processing and workflow ensuring timely reporting and database integrity per ICH-GCP, GVP, FDA/EU regulations. Oversee and quality-check vendor-processed ICSRs, triage adverse events, support CTV/SAE reconciliation, update SOPs and training, liaise cross-functionally, and drive process improvements. Hybrid role based in Palo Alto with up to 20% travel.

Design, configure and evolve Market Access solutions (primary focus on Model N/Salesforce). Define solution architecture, ensure compliance and scalability, support implementation, testing, validation and stable operations, manage vendors, and translate business needs into sustainable IT solutions for Commercial teams.

Lead identification and assessment of new drug opportunities through deep biological, clinical, market, patent, and competitive analyses. Prepare high-quality reports and pitch decks, advise cross-functional teams, establish processes/templates, and track scientific and regulatory developments to support strategic decision-making.

Leads the Group Accounting & Reporting team, overseeing technical accounting, IFRS-compliant quarterly and annual external reporting, SEC compliance, accounting policies, complex transactions, and global reporting procedures. Partners with Finance and other departments on technical accounting matters while improving efficiency through AI and automation. The role also develops the team and supports reporting across a global biopharmaceutical organization.

Supports international pricing and market access strategies for Ascendis Pharma’s endocrinology portfolio. Responsibilities include competitor pricing analysis, reimbursement dossier and evidence package preparation, pricing and access data validation, launch strategy support, payer value analysis, stakeholder coordination, and external vendor management. The role collaborates with global pricing, market access, HEOR, medical affairs, marketing, distributors, and regional partners across international markets.

Support the Marketing team in brand planning and product launch activities for endocrinology and rare disease therapies. Conduct market research, competitive and customer insight analyses; help create promotional, educational and awareness materials; assist congress and stakeholder event execution; monitor campaign performance; support patient engagement initiatives; coordinate cross-functional project activities and prepare presentations, reports and dashboards.

Lead pharmacovigilance strategy and safety activities for assigned endocrinology products. Oversee signal detection, risk management, safety reporting, labeling input, regulatory submissions, audits/inspections, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure global compliance and patient safety across development and marketed programs.

Serve as a technical Business Analyst for the D365 Platform, defining and structuring platform requirements, supporting Power Platform and Azure governance, coordinating delivery with internal teams and partners, aiding Azure DevOps deployments, and assisting D365 F&O operations and access management within a regulated biotech environment.

Designs, oversees, and analyzes late-phase clinical trials in endocrinology and oncology. Produces and reviews clinical protocols, reports, regulatory documents, and site materials. Monitors safety and efficacy data, supports site and subject retention, collaborates cross-functionally, advises investigators and KOLs, and contributes to regulatory submissions and scientific communications. Travels up to 20% for meetings.

Lead U.S. KOL engagement and congress strategy for the endocrine portfolio, managing peer-to-peer education, speaker bureau, and advisory programs. Build and coach a Thought Leader Liaison team, partner cross-functionally to integrate insights into brand strategy, own budget/forecasting and compliance, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of programs. Report to VP of Marketing and support commercial leadership.

Design, build and operate data solutions on Azure; blend data from multiple sources; advise business on data practices; participate in business-oriented data projects; collaborate with product teams and owners to deliver analytics-ready data platforms.