Director, Key Opinion Leader Marketing, Rare Disease

Ipsen’s Rare Disease franchise has been expanding through both organic growth and acquisitions. From a marketing standpoint, there is a critical need for excellence in strategic planning and excellence in execution to clearly define how we will best drive education of appropriate healthcare providers, deliver successful launches, and innovate for patients in complex and competitive therapeutic areas.

The Director, Key Opinion Leader Marketing, Rare Disease is a strategic leader within the U.S. Rare Liver Marketing team, responsible for defining and advancing the peer-to-peer engagement strategy across the portfolio. This role serves as the architect of Ipsen's external expert engagement ecosystem, shaping how scientific leaders, advocates, and peer influencers are engaged to advance disease-state education, support earlier diagnosis, inform brand strategy, and drive adoption across existing and future portfolio assets. This role requires deep expertise in external expert engagement, peer-to-peer education, and congress strategy, as well as the scientific acumen, executive presence, and cross-functional leadership necessary to influence senior stakeholders and drive portfolio-wide impact.

This role owns the strategic direction and governance of speaker bureau excellence, KOL engagement, peer to peer education, and congress activation across the U.S. rare disease portfolio. This individual ensures a coordinated and highly credible external engagement approach that elevates Ipsen's scientific leadership and commercial impact.

This is not a field or remote role, it's based in our Cambridge, MA HQ.

WHAT - Main Responsibilities

Peer Engagement Strategy

• Own and evolve the enterprise peer-to-peer engagement strategy across the U.S. Rare Disease portfolio, ensuring alignment with portfolio growth objectives, competitive dynamics, and future launch priorities
• Establish portfolio-level KOL, speaker, and advocate engagement fra