Associate Director, Omnichannel Capabilities & Enablement

Title:

Associate Director, Omnichannel Capabilities & Enablement

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 Associate Director, Omnichannel Capabilities & Enablement is responsible for developing customer engagement strategies that enable successful brand launches while advancing omnichannel capabilities across the organization. This role partners closely with Brand, Marketing, Sales, Medical, Market Access, Commercial Operations, Analytics, and Digital teams to design integrated customer engagement approaches that drive launch readiness, customer adoption, and long-term brand growth.

This role serves as a strategic thought partner to launch teams, translating brand objectives into omnichannel engagement strategies, customer journeys, channel plans, and measurement frameworks. Beyond supporting individual launches, the role establishes and institutionalizes omnichannel best practices, standards, and ways of working that elevate customer engagement excellence across the enterprise.

Main Responsibilities & Technical Competencies

Omnichannel Capabilities Planning

Partner with cross-functional brand teams to develop customer engagement strategies that support successful product launches.

Help translate brand objectives, customer insights, and market dynamics into integrated omnichannel engagement plans, and lead roadmap planning and pull-through of omnichannel engagement capabilities.

Work with brand teams and agency partners to design engagement approaches across customer segments, channels, and stages of the customer journey.

Ensure omnichannel strategies align with launch objectives, customer needs, and commercial priorities.

Identify opportunities to leverage innovation, personalization, and data-driven engagement to accelerate adoption.

Customer Engagement Design

Partner with brand teams to design customer journey and engagement frameworks that create seamless experiences across personal and non-personal channels.

Work with brand teams and agency partners to align Business Operations standards and capability roadmaps, and consult on ways to optimize interactions across field, digital, media, CRM, events, and emerging engagement channels.

Incorporate customer insights, behavioral data, and analytics into engagement planning.

Champion customer-centric approaches that improve experience and engagement effectiveness.

Launch Excellence & Capability Building

Establish repeatable launch planning methodologies, engagement frameworks, and omnichannel playbooks.

Create standards and best practices that can be scaled across future launches and brands.

Partner with stakeholders to identify lessons learned and continuously improve launch approaches.

Support organizational readiness by embedding best practices, governance, and capability development.

Omnichannel Innovation & Best Practices

Serve as a center of excellence for omnichannel engagement strategy and launch planning.

Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, and evolving customer expectations to inform future engagement models.

Lead initiatives to advance organizational omnichannel maturity and effectiveness.

Drive adoption of innovative engagement approaches and measurement practices.

Measurement & Optimization

Define success metrics and performance indicators for launch engagement strategies.

Partner with analytics teams to assess engagement effectiveness and customer response.

Apply insights and learnings to optimize launch performance and future engagement strategies.

Develop frameworks for continuous improvement and organizational learning.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Collaborate closely with Brand Marketing, Sales, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Analytics, Commercial Operations, Digital, and Technology teams.

Facilitate alignment among stakeholders and ensure engagement strategies are integrated across functions.

Influence decision-making through strategic recommendations, customer insights, and performance data.

Present strategies, recommendations, and outcomes to senior leadership.

Success Measures

Successful development and execution of a capability roadmap and scalable customer engagement architecture.

Greater efficiency of omnichannel capabilities across brands through infrastructure reuse and reduced time to launch readiness.

Successful implementation of next-best-action strategies and tactics, and use of closed-loop measurement modeling.

Increased effectiveness of omnichannel customer engagement programs.

Creation and adoption of scalable launch and engagement best practices across brands.

Improved organizational omnichannel maturity and capability development.

Strong stakeholder satisfaction and cross-functional collaboration.

Continuous improvement through measurement, insights, and application of launch learnings.

Knowledge & Experience

Knowledge & Experience (essential):

12+ years of experience in omnichannel strategy, customer engagement capability building, martech platform orchestration, consent/privacy data management, customer segmentation, journey personalization, and omnichannel thought leadership across internal and external teams.

Experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or other complex product launches.

Demonstrated success leading cross-functional strategic initiatives.

Strong understanding of customer engagement principles, customer journeys, and omnichannel ecosystems.

Excellent communication, influence, and project management skills.

Knowledge & Experience (preferred):

Experience with martech and orchestration platforms, data and consent management, audience and segmentation operations, and building scalable capabilities or centers of excellence.

Experience developing repeatable launch methodologies, engagement frameworks, omnichannel playbooks, and measurement practices.

Experience partnering with brand teams, analytics, digital, technology, sales, medical, market access, and commercial operations stakeholders.

Education / Certifications (essential):

Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Life Sciences, or a related field.

Education / Certifications (preferred):

Relevant omnichannel, digital marketing, analytics, martech, or project management certifications.

Language(s) (essential):

Fluent in English.

Ability to Travel: up to 20%

The annual base salary range for this position is $143,000-$210,000.

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentives program.

At Ipsen we are proud to offer a comprehensive employee benefits package, including 401(k) with company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, as well as flexible spending accounts. Ipsen also provides parental leave, paid time off, a discretionary winter shutdown, well-being allowance, commuter benefits, and much more.

The pay range displayed above is the range of base pay compensation within which Ipsen expects to pay for this role at the time of this posting. Individual compensation within this range depends on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, prior education and experience, job-related knowledge and demonstrated skills.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels heard, valued, and supported; where we embrace “The Real Us”. The value we place on different perspectives and experiences drives our commitment to inclusion and equal opportunities. When we include diverse ways of thinking, we make more thoughtful decisions and discover more innovative solutions. Together we strive to better understand the communities we serve. This means we also want to help you perform at your best when applying for a role with us. If you require any adjustments or support during the application process, please let the recruitment team know. This information will be handled with care and will not affect the outcome of your application. Ipsen is an equal opportunity employer that strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.