Therapeutic Area Knowledge Transfer Director, Rare Diseases

Ipsen is a dynamic and 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 and providing them with effective therapeutic solutions for unmet medical needs through differentiated and innovative medicines in Oncology, Neurosciences and Rare Diseases.

The patient is at the heart of everything we do, and we also care for our employees because they are the ambassadors who truly make the difference. We attract and develop bold, agile, entrepreneurial individuals who take full ownership of their decisions; leaders drawn by a purpose to make a direct impact through their work in people’s lives.

We offer employees a wealth of fulfilling challenges growth opportunities, and the chance to contribute within a fast-moving organisation, an organisation that is genuinely game-changing.

The Therapeutic Area Knowledge Transfer Director, Rare Diseases is a key member the Rare Diseases and Global Medical Excellence teams, reporting to the Head of Training and Capabilities.

As the Therapeutic Area Knowledge Transfer Associate Director, Rare Diseases you will:

• be responsible for the design and delivery of all aspects of therapy area (TA) scientific training and knowledge assessment for a suite of rare disease products.
• Have a thorough knowledge of the TA and work very closely with the TA Medical Directors (MD), to ensure full alignment with Asset Medical strategy and TA advances
• Transfer to affiliate medical should be coordinated with ‘region/cluster’ MDs and affiliate MDs to ensure transparency and alignment with geographic needs
  
  

In This Role Your Primary Focus Will Be

Strategic design and oversight of therapeutic area scientific training for all medical functions

• Strategic oversight of coordination and delivery of training related to clinical fluency, and scientific expertise for all medical functions.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners/providers, in assessing therapeutic area and scientific knowledge
  
  

Leadership of training execution and monitoring

• Ensure the sustainability of training with the development of training updates and revisions provided in a timely manner and in relation to new scientific updates
  
  

Ensure internal cross‐functional collaborations as a scientific partner

• Assess training needs across GMA, LMA on a periodic basis and ensure appropriate training is timely delivered
• Identify local training needs, implement solutions and assess outcomes
• Collaborate to develop synergy with the wider LD community including the Strategic Business Excellence team in the training approach for all scientific related projects and co-create training materials where appropriate.
  
  

Compliance and Collaboration

To be considered for this role you will have a relevant qualification ideally with a post-graduate Degree e.g. MSc, PhD, MD, PharmD, MBA coupled with a proven track record in Medical Affairs or Significant Experience within a Medical Communications Agency working within Specialty Care. Prior experience in data analysis and statistics for purpose of understanding clinical study results and in developing and delivering