Ipsen Innovation (SAS) Posted July 24, 2026

Senior Manager, Lead QA Operations Service Provider

Paris, France Full time
Quality Manager

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About this opportunity

Title:

Senior Manager, Lead QA Operations Service Provider

Company:

Ipsen Innovation (SAS)

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:

Are you a quality expert with experience in clinical development and service provider oversight?

At Ipsen, we’re looking for a strategic QA expert to help shape quality excellence across our global clinical and medical operations. The Senior Manager, Lead QA Operations Service Provider , will lead quality oversight of service providers supporting clinical studies, drive compliance and continuous improvement, and partner closely with teams across R&D, Global Medical Affairs, and Procurement.

This is a highly collaborative role with broad visibility across key quality and business stakeholders.

What you’ll do

Lead the qualification, and oversight of service providers supporting clinical studies

Ensure quality agreements, compliance activities, and risk-based quality oversight processes are in place and effective

Monitor service provider quality performance, drive continuous improvement, and escalate quality issues where needed

Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to provide QA expertise and support inspection and inspection/audit readiness

Contribute to strong quality systems, team leadership, and a culture of excellence

What you’ll bring

Strong experience in pharmaceutical quality within R&D and/or Medical Affairs

Solid knowledge of Good Clinical Practice and clinical study environments

Experience overseeing external service providers in a regulated setting

Strong analytical skills and the ability to assess risk, investigate issues, and support effective CAPAs

A scientific degree

Fluent English

Join Ipsen and bring your quality expertise to a high-impact role shaping excellence across global clinical and medical operations.

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Job details

Seniority
Manager
Function
Quality
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Paris, France
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Quality role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 236 comparable Manager Quality roles across 64 biopharma companies.

236Comparable roles tracked
216Currently active
64Companies hiring similar roles
28Countries represented

Salary context

70 of 236 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Associate Quality Metrologist · Merck KGaA $27/hr – $46/hr (≈ $56,160–$95,680/yr)
Peer group range $75,920 – $219,500 (median $165,300)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 236 comparable roles

United States108
China23
India17
Ireland15
Japan13
Belgium7

+ 22 more countries

Seniority mix

236 of 236 peers have a known seniority level

Manager161
Associate Director46
Associate29

Therapeutic area mix

0 of 236 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.

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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

60%
Manager Post Market Quality Assurance F/M
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Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
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Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.