Vice President, Head of Medical Affairs, Neuroscience

About this role

Title: Vice President, Head of Medical Affairs, Neuroscience Company: Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Inc.   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: The Vice President, Head of Medical Affairs, Neuroscience, will be a strategic partner for the assets under his/her responsibility, and will lead a dynamic US-based group overseeing the medical strategy and operational execution of all the multiple functions and therapeutic indications for all marketed products, products in development and provide expertise in business development, as required.  As part of the responsibilities, this person will also oversee all life cycle management activities related to on-going Phase IV studies, as well as to closely interact with the R&D team and global medical teams to support registrational trials or global medical affairs sponsored trials. This individual will lead a team, including medical leads and medical directors, a publication and communications lead and work closely with the National Field Lead to ensure field execution.

Main Responsibilities & Technical Competencies

• Global Asset responsibilities • Provide input and influencing the global therapeutic area and each asset strategy, by providing expertise and ensuring strategic alignment between the US and the Global Medical Neuroscience. • Oversee and ensure alignment with the US medical lead as member of the Asset Team and the Global Neuroscience Medical team • Support the evolution of the global and US business strategy to expand on the increasing number of assets and impact to the overall organization • Accountable for preparing arrival of new assets, from input into business development to contribution to registration studies, when required and preparing the strategy and organizational readiness and team structure ready for launch • Ability to influence internal and externally, manage and navigate complexity and display of leadership skills across the organization

• Direct all the activities in US medical affairs, which include: • Build, update and maintain the US organization for the therapeutic area according to the strategic business needs             • Lead the medical strategy and medical planning for US NA Neuroscience Ipsen products. • Oversight of the Medical Directors for Clinical Studies and Early Access programs in the therapeutic area. • Have in-depth knowledge of Ipsen’s programs in order to support and facilitate integration of evidence portfolio into  literature, medical publications, presentations at scientific meetings, and other forms of external communications. • Coordination and development of appropriate medical plans in collaboration with global medical affairs and other relevant internal partners • Oversight of the Phase IIIb/IV US studies, Investigator Sponsored Studies and R& D studies with US involvement in close collaboration with the global R& D and medical affairs teams • Accountable for the development and communication of appropriate publication plans • Oversight of all publications including posters, abstracts, manuscripts both at the US and global level to ensure appropriate alignment between relevant teams • Work closely with HEOR to ensure development of appropriate HEOR plans, supervision of on-going data generation projects as well as responsible to provide guidance for new projects • Frequent communication with the MSL team via the US MSL Leads. Ensure appropriate and timely training on new data is provided to the team, support answering questions from the team • Lead and oversee the management of appropriate relationships with health care professionals and professional organizations, patient advocacy groups, and educational foundations, and be recognized as the expert face of US Neuroscience Medical • Represent the medical function for review and approval of communication materials according to corporate and government/industry standards and regulations. • Lead the review, approval, and implementation of investigator-initiated study activities. • Support the development and implementation of Ipsen Neuroscience assets across managed access programs.

Knowledge & Experience

Knowledge & Experience (essential): • 12+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience, including 5+ years in Medical Affairs with a focus on Neuroscience including spasticity management and other neurological conditions including migraine; minimum 3 years in the U.S. market. • Extensive expertise in Neuroscience, with deep knowledge of the unique aspects of toxin development and regulatory standards for approval/labelling, drug development and commercialization, and prior business development experience evaluating neurology assets. • Knowledge and expertise in HEOR, scientific publications, Clinical Operations and MSL role remit. • Knowledge of clinical trial design, execution, and biostatistics. • Proven leadership in Medical Affairs, including experience developing medical plan strategies, managing cross-functional teams across global Medical, R&D, Commercial, and Regulatory functions, and providing effective oversight o

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