Senior Manager, Alliance Finance Business Partner

Are you passionate about involvement in Innovative Business Models? Do you have experience as Finance Business Partner for collaboration agreements within pharma or life-science? And are you naturally curious about R&D and pharma?

If so, now is your chance to join Ascendis Pharma as our new Senior Manager, Alliance Finance Business Partner.

Ascendis Pharma is a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Germany, the United States, UK, Italy, Spain, and France.

We are applying our TransCon® technology to build a leading, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of patients, science, and passion, we use our TransCon® drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs. Today, we have a growing pipeline of prodrug therapies in development, each designed to be a best-in-class therapy.

We are seeking a passionate Senior Manager, Alliance Finance Business Partner to join our growing team. As a key member of the Ascendis Pharma Business Finance team, you will play a crucial role for the financials in collaboration agreements and potentially additional Innovative Business Models. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborate with cross-functional, global teams working together to achieve extraordinary results. We are seeking a new team member to help develop an impactful project. You'll collaborate with passionate individuals to ensure strong Collaboration between alliance partners and Ascendis Pharma.

You will be joining the Business Finance team consisting of colleagues in both Denmark and the US. You will be based in the headquarters in Hellerup and report directly to Jacob Nielsen, Head of Business Finance, who is also based in Hellerup.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Main finance driver for financials related to external collaboration for Development and Commercialization of TransCon® Technology-based Products.
• Involvement in updates for project budgets together with internal stakeholders.
• Manage financials with partners based on collaboration agreements.
• Proactively address financial issues in collaboration with internal stakeholders and partners.
• Internal reporting for alliance management, steer co members, and finance management.

Qualifications and Skills:

You hold a relevant academic degree – preferably a degree within finance. Moreover, you come from a similar position where you have gained deep knowledge about managing financials for external collaborations within pharma.

Furthermore, you have:

• Experience with R&D and pharma.
• Project management skills to drive changes & impact.
• Negotiation skills when interacting with external partners.
• Good communication skills.
• Drive to manage the financials in the collaboration.
• Cross-Functional skills to Partnering with various functions involved in the collaboration.
• Skillful with Financial Systems, Cognos, PowerBI and generating robust analysis.

Key competencies:

You are a strong team player, analytical with a proactive problem-solving mindset, and have a can-do attitude as these aspects are critical to succeed in the role.

You possess an entrepreneurial mindset and can thrive in an informal, open environment where innovation and change are key.  

To succeed in this role, we also expect you to have

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with multiple functional areas in a collaborative, team environment.
• Ability to interact with various management level as well as work at a detailed level.
• A learning mindset, comfortable tackling new challenges.

Travel: 5-10 days per year.

Office: Tuborg Boulevard 12, 2900 Hellerup

Apply now.

Applications will be evaluated when received, so please apply as soon as possible.

All applications must be submitted in English and are treated confidentially.

For more details about the position or the company, please contact Jacob Nielsen, Head of Business Finance on [email protected] or visit our website www.ascendispharma.com