Global Lead – Patient Advocacy and Stakeholder Communications– Neuroscience - M/F

Overview

As Global Lead, you drive patient advocacy and stakeholder communications strategy for the Neuroscience franchise, aligning with corporate affairs to strengthen engagement with patients, caregivers and professional societies. You will develop and execute disease-awareness initiatives, reduce stigma around movement disorders and migraine, and support earlier diagnosis and better outcomes. You’ll collaborate across Global and Country teams to ensure consistent messaging and measurable impact. This role offers a meaningful opportunity to shape patient experience and Ipsen’s reputation in neuroscience.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Corporate Affairs Integration: set global priorities, objectives, plans and KPIs; manage budget and agencies
• Cross-Functional Partnership & Country Collaboration: align with Medical Affairs, Patient Affairs, Market Access, Brand, Communications, Digital; enable local activation
• Strategic Stakeholder Engagement: build relationships with patient groups, societies and external stakeholders; conduct stakeholder mapping and planning
• Integrated Disease Awareness & Communications Driver: lead global disease-awareness campaigns; oversee multichannel communications and activation resources
• Reputation, Issues Management & Governance: monitor external environment, support preparedness and compliant engagement
• Cross-functional coordination of global campaigns across markets and partnerships
• Ensure patient voice informs communications and commercial strategies

Key requirements

• 10+ years in patient advocacy, communications/PR or related roles in pharma/biotech with national outcomes
• Experience contributing to cross-functional brand teams for therapies in chronic conditions
• Proven track record delivering disease awareness campaigns for sizable patient populations
• Global or regional experience with country-level impact
• Strong business acumen linking communications to business and pipeline priorities
• Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills; ability to influence and build trust
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and influencing ability
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Public Health, Communications, or related field
• English language proficiency; additional European languages preferred

• Stakeholder management
• Influence and relationship-building
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Stakeholder mapping and engagement planning
• Campaign development and management (disease-awareness)
• Integrated communications across owned, earned, shared and paid platforms

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