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Director, Clinical & Medical Strategic Planning & Management

The remit of the Director, Clinical & Medical Strategic Planning & Management is to maximize productivity and efficiency of team members across Endocrine & Rare Disease Medical Sciences (ERDMS) by providing structure, visibility, and decision-making support. As a member of the ERDMS leadership team, this team member will facilitate efforts in the design and execution of clinical development plans, and medical evidence generation plans, in alignment with Ascendis Pharma's purpose, values, vision, and priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate the formulation of clinical development and medical evidence generation plans
• Ensure strategic alignment with goals and priorities of the Ascendis organization
• Provide a comprehensive view of endocrine portfolio, including a broad perspective of the pipeline and life cycle management activities
• Create roadmaps and ensure they are contemporary and visible
• Balance dependencies
• Manage competing demands for resources
• Continuously evaluate performance across the portfolio and programs
• Facilitate execution of the plans to generate impactful evidence
• Support ERDMS teams by maintaining clarity of priorities e.g. when selecting endpoints
• Support teams in making informed decisions, which have been discussed cross-functionally
• Assist teams in finding time and space to come together in effective ways
• Foster readiness (colleagues come prepared) and productive collaboration
• Promote ways of working that keep the teams organized, and thus permit subject matter experts the time to think and strategize
• Promote communication and information-sharing
• Oversee collaboration within and across functions
• Schedule discussions for interpreting data
• Plan the flow of data presentations
• Create tools and visuals for internal sharing of important clinical & medical messages and narratives
• Cultivate a culture of proactivity i.e. help teams "see beyond the horizon"
• Promote a sense of accountability
• Lay strong foundations for the organization's short- and long-term successes