Title: Clinical Trial Excellence Manager
Company: Ipsen Biopharm Ltd

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.

Summary & Purpose of the Position
The Clinical Trial Excellence Manager, Clinical Development Operations (CDO) plays a key role in enabling the effective, efficient, and data‑driven operation of the global CDO organization. Reporting into the Strategy & Operations function, this role provides end‑to‑end support across resourcing, financial planning and performance metrics. The position acts to execute operational strategies to enable CDO functional operations teams and associated functions e.g. finance, R&D capacity etc.

A central focus of the role is to operationalize, standardized, global operational processes and controls for CDO resourcing, meeting CDO business needs and collaborating with R&D Capacity to ensure no duplication. The Clinical Trial Excellence Manager, under direction from the CDO Strategy and Operations Lead, will coordinate initiatives to improve transparency and predictability of resourcing, including supporting CDO algorithms, models, and planning tools enabling portfolio and capacity decisions.

Main Responsibilities

• CDO Resourcing Support: Operationalise strategic direction and frameworks to establish and maintain global CDO processes for resource forecasting, supply planning, and allocation.
• CDO Finance Support: Support the development, maintenance, and monitoring of operational budgets across CDO, including T&E and Training.
• Data Gathering & Insight Generation: Collect, integrate, and analyse portfolio, resourcing, financial, and operational data to contextualise CDO capacity and funding needs.
• Strategy & Operations Team Support: Support the smooth operation of the Strategy & Operations team, including planning and coordination of leadership team meetings.
• Broader CDO Support: Support broader CDO initiatives such as the preparation of global townhalls, events, and communications.

Knowledge & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in pharmaceutical operations or similar operational experience.
• Working knowledge of strategic and organizational planning.
• Strong organization, time management and project coordination skills.
• Strong analytical/critical thinking and decision-making abilities.
• Sound financial acumen is required.
• Working understanding of ICH-GCP and other applicable worldwide regulations such as GDPR and HIPPA.
• Bachelor’s degree (University/college degree).

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