Global Medical Project Lead

Ipsen Pharma

London or Paris

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.

Coordination of business activities

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

Contract management

Where support needed, coordination around contracts and budgetary aspects

Coordination new asset integration

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

Transversal activities coordination

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.

Qualifications

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