Global Medical Project Lead

Are you ready to lead and innovate in a dynamic, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company?

Ipsen is a growing global specialty-driven biopharmaceutical company focused on innovation and specialty care. We aim to make a sustainable difference by significantly improving patients’ health and quality of life, providing effective therapeutic solutions for unmet medical needs through differentiated and innovative medicines in Oncology, Neurosciences, and Rare Diseases.

Why Ipsen?

Patient-Focused: The patient is at the heart of everything we do, and improving their outcomes is the deliverable of every strategy.

Employee Care: We care for our employees, who are the ambassadors making a real difference.

Bold Leadership: We attract and develop bold, agile, entrepreneurial individuals who take full ownership of their decisions.

Growth Opportunities: We offer a wealth of fulfilling challenges and growth opportunities in a fast-moving, game-changing organization.

About The Role

The Global Medical Project Lead is responsible for high quality support of project set-up, implementation and coordination of existing and new projects sitting under responsibility of the global medical organization.

Key Responsibilities

Project lead

• Develop project plans based on the business needs, including project milestones. Monitor the project execution ensuring delivery in the agreed timeline and quality.
• Implement project management methodology and promotes best practices
• Work in a structured manner to identify project stakeholders, key milestones and ensures delivery within the timeframe for each of the tasks and for the overall project.
• Participate in the project designing and planning of all operational activities related to the project, leads the set-up of the project plan
• Maintain project scope, timelines, and budget
• Identify project risks and issues linked to project delivery and develops mitigation strategies to minimise impact, escalating when necessary
• Develop metrics and tracks KPIs and KIIs where appropriate for projects.
• Involve all stakeholders to maximise the impact of projects, including Medical functions as well as cross-functional teams.
  
  

• Responsible for coordinating all business activities related to the project
• Responsible on all aspects around meeting organization and execution related to the project in scope
• Responsible for clear communication and/or training to the relevant stakeholders
  
  

• Where support needed, coordination around contracts and budgetary aspects
  
  

• Develop the Integration project plan in collaboration with the medical workstream lead
• Monitor the execution of the plan and identify action plans with functional leads
• Communicate when delays to execution occur
  
  

• Meeting management for each project under the scope (agenda, speaker coordination, minutes, follow-up actions)
• Be the Medical Sharepoint technical expert
• Contribute to MLT important presentation design, improvement
• Establish and maintain a strong partnership with Medical Affairs colleagues and cross-functional partners at local and global level
• In close alliance with the Chief of Staff to the CMO coordinate global medical transformation projects and communicate deviations/discrepancies to the Medical Transformation Lead, and proactively offer solutions to help progress on specific deliverables.
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree required ideally in Life Sciences; advanced degree preferred
• Certification in Project Management
• Strong project management experience
• Previous experience in pharmaceutical industry is preferred, experience in medical affairs is a plus
• Experience with budget and forecasting management
• Proficient with PowerPoint, Excel, and Microsoft and any modern IT and office software
• Multi-task performance in a fast-paced environment is required
• Regular work travelling
• Fluency in English