Business Operations Expert for R&D and Medical
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Title:
Business Operations Expert for R&D and Medical
Company:
Ipsen Pharma (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:
The IT R&D and Medical Operations Expert (BOE) plays a critical role by ensuring the operations for digital applications and technology solutions within the organization of R&D and Medical business domain. This position is accountable for managing support, operations for all the applications in this domain within an outsourcing context and multi-application providers, including Maintenance and Support of the business applications. The focus is on maintaining, optimizing and supporting various applications, systems and platforms.
The BOE will be responsible for operations & evolutions of all the perimeters with our partners, ensuring business users satisfaction and driving the maximum value for the Business. The BOE will also drive a strong culture of proactivity by anticipating operational risks, leveraging data-driven insights, initiating continuous improvement actions to enhance service stability, performance and business value.
WHAT - Main Responsibilities & Technical Competencies
Business processes understanding
Excellent understanding of Business organization’s goals and objectives, processes (Building Facilities) and operations, understand complex data integration between applications in the business domain (Internal & External interfaces).
Contribute to the analysis of business problems and the translation of business requirements into technical solutions and processes to deliver business operations
Analyse business operations to determine opportunities to optimize, improve business support and services, automate processes and data flows
Support development of Business Digital and Tech roadmap
Business stakeholder management
Participates in technical and business discussions to define service delivery objectives and align with business objectives
Performs risk analysis and mitigation, coordination with IT Business Partners for demand management and resource planning
Develops and manages strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels (IT, Business, external partners)
Works closely with the business functions to establish service delivery requirements and identify the most appropriate solutions
Business services Delivery, continuous improvement, control, monitoring and governance
Manage the Global application landscape for R&D (Patient Safety, Labs, Medical, (30 SaaS/OnPremise applications).
Ensures overall operations meet business expectations, internal standards, Manage the outsourcing contract (KPI’s and SLA’s) and provide support expertise
Define the Continuous improvements plan for the R&D and Medical perimeter with all stakeholders (External providers, outsourcers and IPSEN GDIT and Business)
Manage release lifecycle for the applications and plan the roadmaps
Communicates updates to the relevant stakeholders, instances at defined intervals
Ensure service transition of applications from build to operations.
Improve the services delivered in the contract to support new business requirements
Manage partners operational governance (Weekly, Monthly service review and CAB meetings) with the outsourcer
Manage partners support contract for all applications perimeter for Commercial, Marketing, GPPS and Ethic.
Vendor relationship and contract management
Monitor the contract lifecycle and services
Ensures partners meet their service delivery commitments
Actively pursues opportunities for improving the vendor partnership, contract terms, introduction of innovative services and efficiencies
Manage all providers governance
Business innovation and continuous improvement opportunities
Identifies and communicates potential opportunities for Business innovation to IT domains.
Recommends business process and system changes to innovate and improve efficiency and business outcomes.
Defines innovation initiatives with IT Business Partners and leads these collaborative initiatives to drive efficiencies and obtain synergies
HOW - Behavioural Competencies Required
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HOW - Knowledge & Experience
Knowledge & Experience (essential):
Proven experience in Service Delivery Management, including outsourcing/vendor management, SLAs, KPIs, and performance governance for Commercial and Product business applications
8+ years of experience on IT application management within R&D and Medical domains
8+ years of experience in SaaS applications technical support, including Vendor management, incident, problem, change management, release upgrade and evolutions.
Knowledge of data privacy, compliance standards, pharma regulation and security best practices
Demonstrated experience working in a global organization, preferably within the biopharmaceutical industry (5+ years)
Experience system integration (Data interfaces between applications)
Knowledge on business acumen for commercial & Pharmaceutical product domain within pharmaceutical industries
Expertise on R&D : Monolix (Lixoft), Pirana (Certera) and NonMem (IconPLC).
Expertise on Medical applications : ArisGlobal, RxLogic, Anju IRMS, Veeva PromoMats and Veeva Platform.
Experience in observability, automation, AIOps or test automation is an advantage.
Strong business acumen and ability to convert operational data into risks, priorities and decisions.
Education / Certifications (essential):
Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from an accredited institution in IT or project management.
Master’s degree from an accredited institution preferred
ITIL certification or equivalent service management experience is preferred.
Language(s) :
French
Language(s) (preferred):
English (Fluent)
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