Strategy & Transformation Senior Manager M/F/N

Title:

Strategy & Transformation Senior Manager M/F/N

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!

For more information, visit us at https://www.ipsen.com/ and follow our latest news on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Job Description:

Faithful to its heritage, IPSEN remains a nimble company at human scale, where entrepreneur mindset is very much encouraged and rewarded.

IPSEN ambition is to develop a valuable and sustainable portfolio, delivering at least one new molecular entity or meaningful indication/registration every year. To achieve this ambition, IPSEN focuses on innovative and differentiated assets and bolsters external sourcing model/ business development to expand its innovative Specialty Care pipeline.

The role:

• Support Executive Leadership Team / Senior Management in decision-making and arbitration related to the overall strategy of the Group

• Support Group transformation by bringing a cross-functional and independent view

• Lead/support strategic & transformation projects either as project managers or as contributors

• Orchestrate the Group’s long-term strategic plans across Group divisions and functions

• Produce strategic analysis/benchmarks on a broad range of metrics and KPIs

• Role model the cultural transformation of IPSEN into a leading global Biotech focused on innovation and specialty care

Main responsibilities and tasks:

• Support strategic and/for Group Transformation projects:

  • Lead/support Group transformation (e.g. R&D transformation, due diligence excellence, cultural transformation…) or functional / business line strategic projects (e.g. on a product/therapeutic area, on a geography, on a value chain area…) either as a project manager or as a contributor 

  • Support the execution of strategic projects by acting as PMOs

  • Monitor the delivery of third-party contractors in a timely and cost-effective manner

  • Participate actively to the alignment of internal stakeholders

  • Identify remediations and leverage their IPSEN network

• Orchestrate the planning sequence:

  • Orchestrate the Group long-term planning sequence (approach, deliverables, modelling, risk escalation) 

  • Be responsible for the coordination with Finance on the mid-term group planning sequence

  • Design and conduct analyses on mid- and long-term Group plans (P&L analysis, financial indicators, sensitivities, upsides / downsides…)

Team members are exposed on a regular basis to EVPs/SVPs levels. Though benefiting from the support of the Directors and VPs, they need to be capable of interacting autonomously at that level. Also, managers need to be capable of engaging with Project Leaders from third party contractors, in particular from Strategy & Management Consulting firms

Requirements

Experience/educational background

• Business school and/or PhD and/or PharmD and/or MD Minimum of 4-8 years of previous work experience in life sciences and/or strategy consulting

• Ideally: Consulting and knowledge of healthcare environment

Skills & Attributes

• Fluent in English

• Leadership skills required to influence outcomes, communicate with all levels of the organization, and facilitate development of solutions to address critical business needs

• Interpersonal and facilitation skills necessary to drive alignment

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to interface with technical, scientific, and management internal user groups

• Proven ability to scope, develop, and manage projects

Required competencies

• Strategy & Analytics

• Financial analysis & Accounting

• Project Management

• Mastery of PowerPoint and Excel

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Dans le cadre de ses recrutements IPSEN s’engage au respect de l’égalité de traitement des candidats, indépendamment du sexe, de l’âge, de l'orientation sexuelle, de l'origine ethnique, de la couleur de la peau, de la nationalité, du handicap ou de l'appartenance à un syndicat.