Title:
Associate Director, Global Strategic Insights & Forecasting Partner
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 Global Strategic Insights and Forecasting Partner is a key role within the Strategic Business Excellence team driving informed decision-making across the organization through comprehensive market analysis, forecasting and data-driven insights, working in close collaboration with the global functional brand team (Asset Team) to shape current and future business strategy.
The Global Strategic Insights and Forecasting Partner:
Is expected to generate and distill information from a variety of sources such as primary market research, competitive intelligence and market data to identify business issues, develop assumptions and recommend actions.
Will also provide insights and forecasting analytics to all key business planning processes of IPSEN (Annual Brand Planning, Annual Budget and Long-Range-Planning) in collaboration with global Finance partners, divisions and affiliates.
Is expected to work with a wide range of cross-functional stakeholders, especially the members of the Asset Team, including functional areas such as Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Regulatory, Finance, and R&D colleagues.
Will be integral to the day-to-day operational activities surrounding their respective brand and may work in partnership with the New Product Planning Leads ahead of global launches for new indications.
Is expected to identify and coordinate the collation of the best available data to support the commercial evaluation of the business cases submitted by the global Asset Team to the new governance bodies (Portfolio Steering Committee and Portfolio Committee).
Market Research: Propose relevant market research projects to address Asset Team strategic priorities & challenges
Lead the quantitative and qualitative market research activities within the Therapeutic area, including the development and approval of the annual market research plan
Monitor market research project execution and overcome any potential hurdles
In close collaboration with Procurement, improve the calibre and select preferred research vendors, searching for best-in-class partners and innovative methodologies
In coordination with brand teams, communicate and integrate market research results in brand strategies and roll-out results to key countries to drive operational excellence
Performance Analytics: Lead Asset Team situational analysis, performance monitoring and business planning in collaboration with key markets (e.g. driving product positioning, marketing mix, etc.)
Triangulate primary research, secondary data analytics, and competitive intelligence to provide a single source of truth
Implement and monitor Key Performance Indicators
Consolidate data from internal and external sources to allow decision making
Propose improvements to brand performance monitoring activities (data sources, tools, systems)
Liaise with market data providers to ensure best available data is procured to inform brand…