Ipsen-posted 2 months ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Paris, TX
1,001-5,000 employees
Chemical Manufacturing

The Manager, Asset Operations - Sub Team Planner (STP) is to work as the main point of operational support to the Asset Sub Teams. Fully embedded in the Asset Centric Model, they serve as the strategic planning anchor for the Asset Sub Teams, ensuring that operational execution is fully aligned with the asset strategy. Acting as the right hand to the Sub Team Lead, the STP is responsible for designing, maintaining, and driving the execution of integrated sub team plans, ensuring that all deliverables are anticipated, sequenced, and tracked with precision. This role requires a proactive and structured planning mindset, capable of translating strategic objectives into actionable roadmaps, identifying critical paths, and managing interdependencies across functions. The STP ensures that sub team contributions are delivered on time, within budget, and with full transparency to the Asset Core Team. They also play a key role in scenario planning, risk mitigation, and resource forecasting, enabling informed decision-making and agile course correction. In addition to asset-specific responsibilities, the STP may lead or contribute to transversal initiatives within GPO, with a focus on planning excellence, operational efficiency, and process optimization.

  • Work in partnership with the Sub Team Lead, and Sub Team Functions' representatives to create and maintain sub team's operational roadmap derived from overall asset strategy execution.
  • Create an environment that fosters personal investment and excellence and nurtures commitment to common goals.
  • Facilitate the process for evaluation of alternative options (scenarios) to deliver sub team objectives.
  • Lead the development and continuous refinement of the Integrated Sub Team Plan, ensuring it reflects strategic priorities, functional inputs, and interdependencies.
  • Establish robust planning processes, including milestone mapping, scenario planning, and assumption validation.
  • Drive planning discipline across the sub team, ensuring that timelines, deliverables, and resource needs are clearly defined, tracked, and communicated.
  • Champion planning tools and methodologies, ensuring consistent use across sub teams.
  • Facilitate planning workshops and alignment sessions, bringing together cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Ensure connection and alignment between sub team plan and global integrated asset plan.
  • Create and maintain the Sub Team Assumptions slide as a key input to the sub team plan.
  • Define the interdependent deliverables and ensure that quality, risk, cost, time are managed within the overall approved plan.
  • Drive milestone decision point planning and associated deliverables across functions.
  • Closely and proactively monitor the execution of sub-team plan, measures results, communicates deviations/discrepancies.
  • Serve as the central operational point of contact for team members and Sub Team Lead.
  • Apply a comprehensive risk management methodology using available tools and template.
  • Partner with the Sub team Lead and the sub team function representatives to ensure that budget and resource management are established.
  • Perform 'lessons learned' workshops to identify sub team's learning to be applied across the asset teams.
  • Effectively communicates asset roadmap expectations to sub team members.
  • Prepare and manage governance interactions in partnership with the AOL.
  • 1-3 years' experience in the Pharmaceutical / Biotech industry and understanding of the drug development process.
  • Expertise in planning tools, planning methodologies, and cross-functional planning coordination.
  • Experience in leading operations in cross-functional teams.
  • Agility, proactivity, problem solving & leadership skills.
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
  • Financial acumen to understand/manage program budgets.
  • Experience in facilitating project team meetings and ensuring alignment with stakeholders.
  • Ability to effectively prioritize, multitask and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong customer and patient focus.
  • Demonstrate an appropriate level of technical understanding of the various functions to ensure effective cross-functional communication.
  • Certification in Project Management, MBA and/or PhD is a plus.
  • French language skills are a plus.
  • Hybrid model: 60% on site & 40% remote per month.
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