Are you passionate about designing IT solutions that enable Commercial teams to work smarter and more efficiently? Do you have experience working with Market Access solutions in a regulated scale-up environment? Then you may be our new Solution Architect, Commercial IT EU. Ascendis Pharma is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of Patients, Science, and Passion, we are applying our innovative TransCon® technology platform to fulfill our mission of developing new therapies that demonstrate best-in-class potential to address unmet medical needs. At our headquarters in Hellerup, Denmark, research facilities in Heidelberg, Germany, and additional offices across Europe and the United States, we are advancing programs in our Endocrinology Rare Disease and Oncology portfolios. We also collaborate with partners on the development of TransCon-based products in other therapeutic areas and markets. The context This position is part of our Global IT organization, where we have built a product-driven operating model over the past five years. We operate with a strong focus on product management and lifecycle thinking, where long-lived teams take full ownership - from problem discovery to solution delivery and continuous improvement - ensuring we address real business needs. Our structure combines clear leadership intent with empowered teams: each team member is supported by both a People Leader focused on personal development and a Functional Leader guiding strategy and delivery. We foster autonomy and self-organization to enable fast flow, clear accountability, and minimal dependencies. By joining the Commercial IT EU team, you will deliver impactful digital solutions that support the commercial space, including Commercial Excellence, Global Marketing, Market Access, and International Markets (ex-US). You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across markets and play a key role in shaping user-centric solutions that create real business value. We are seeking a passionate Solution Architect to join our Commercial IT EU team in Global IT. You will be responsible for designing, configuring, and evolving business-critical solutions, with a primary focus on the Market Access domain, including the Model N platform (Salesforce). You will help shape the technology landscape of the domain by translating business needs into sustainable solution designs, balancing business value, compliance requirements, and long-term maintainability. You will play a key role in both shaping solutions and ensuring their successful implementation and operation, while also contributing to the introduction of new Commercial technologies over time. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with cross-functional, global teams working together to achieve extraordinary results. You will report directly to People Leader, Jakob Monajemzadeh Thrane, and Functional Leader, Sune Mejlvang, both based in Hellerup. You will be based in Hellerup. Your key responsibilities will be to Design, own, and evolve Market Access solutions, with a primary focus on the Model N platform, including hands-on configuration, continuous optimization, and solution design. Define and evolve the solution architecture for the Market Access domain, ensuring solutions are aligned with business needs, compliant, maintainable, and scalable. Drive the design and implementation of new Commercial IT EU solutions and enhancements, evaluating options and recommending approaches that best support business needs, compliance, and scalability. Ensure solutions are aligned with business needs, scalable, and compliant with regulatory standards. Support stable system operations by guiding incident resolution, changes, and continuous improvements. Manage external vendors and implementation partners to ensure high-quality delivery and alignment with requirements. Act as a bridge between business and IT, translating business needs and processes into effective and sustainable solution designs. Contribute to governance activities, including documentation, standards, and compliance adherence Support testing, validation, and release activities to ensure solutions meet quality and compliance expectations. Qualifications and experience You hold a relevant academic degree – preferably a Master’s degree, with 5+ years of experience from a similar role. Furthermore you have: Experience working with Market Access Experience working with Salesforce Experience working in regulated environments Experience from a start-up or scale-up environment Key competencies: You are a strong team player, analytical, and have a can-do attitude. 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 be able to handle ambiguity well and employ a solution-oriented approach to generate new ways forward together with your team. As the Commercial IT EU Product team continues to evolve, we are looking for a profile who will proactively contribute to product discovery, help shape our ways of working, and play a key role in designing how future Commercial solutions are delivered together with business stakeholders. Travel: 10-15 days per year Office: Tuborg Boulevard 12, 2900 Hellerup Apply now. To ensure your application is reviewed, please submit it through the specified platform - applications sent by email or other channels will not be evaluated. For more details about the position or the company, please contact Jakob Monajemzadeh Thrane, People Leader, jmt@ascendispharma.com. You can learn more about Ascendis by visiting our website, Applications must be submitted in English and will be treated confidentially. Please note: As the summer holiday period approaches, you may experience a longer response time than usual. We truly appreciate your patience and thank you for your understanding. We look forward to reviewing your application as soon as possible. A note to recruiters: We do not allow external search party solicitation. Presentation of candidates without written permission from the Ascendis Pharma HR team (specifically from: Talent Acquisition Partner or Human Resources Director) is not allowed. If this occurs, your ownership of these candidates will not be acknowledged.
Are you passionate about designing IT solutions that enable Commercial teams to work smarter and more efficiently? Do you have experience working with Market Access solutions in a regulated scale-up environment?
Then you may be our new Solution Architect, Commercial IT EU.
Ascendis Pharma is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of Patients, Science, and Passion, we are applying our innovative TransCon® technology platform to fulfill our mission of developing new therapies that demonstrate best-in-class potential to address unmet medical needs.
At our headquarters in Hellerup, Denmark, research facilities in Heidelberg, Germany, and additional offices across Europe and the United States, we are advancing programs in our Endocrinology Rare Disease and Oncology portfolios. We also collaborate with partners on the development of TransCon-based products in other therapeutic areas and markets.
The context
This position is part of our Global IT organization, where we have built a product-driven operating model over the past five years. We operate with a strong focus on product management and lifecycle thinking, where long-lived teams take full ownership - from problem discovery to solution delivery and continuous improvement - ensuring we address real business needs.
Our structure combines clear leadership intent with empowered teams: each team member is supported by both a People Leader focused on personal development and a Functional Leader guiding strategy and delivery. We foster autonomy and self-organization to enable fast flow, clear accountability, and minimal dependencies.
By joining the Commercial IT EU team, you will deliver impactful digital solutions that support the commercial space, including Commercial Excellence, Global Marketing, Market Access, and International Markets (ex-US).
You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across markets and play a key role in shaping user-centric solutions that create real business value.
We are seeking a passionate Solution Architect to join our Commercial IT EU team in Global IT. You will be responsible for designing, configuring, and evolving business-critical solutions, with a primary focus on the Market Access domain, including the Model N platform (Salesforce). You will help shape the technology landscape of the domain by translating business needs into sustainable solution designs, balancing business value, compliance requirements, and long-term maintainability.
You will play a key role in both shaping solutions and ensuring their successful implementation and operation, while also contributing to the introduction of new Commercial technologies over time.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with cross-functional, global teams working together to achieve extraordinary results.
You will report directly to People Leader, Jakob Monajemzadeh Thrane, and Functional Leader, Sune Mejlvang, both based in Hellerup. You will be based in Hellerup.
Your key responsibilities will be to
- Design, own, and evolve Market Access solutions, with a primary focus on the Model N platform, including hands-on configuration, continuous optimization, and solution design.
- Define and evolve the solution architecture for the Market Access domain, ensuring solutions are aligned with business needs, compliant, maintainable, and scalable.
- Drive the design and implementation of new Commercial IT EU solutions and enhancements, evaluating options and recommending approaches that best support business needs, compliance, and scalability.
- Ensure solutions are aligned with business needs, scalable, and compliant with regulatory standards.
- Support stable system operations by guiding incident resolution, changes, and continuous improvements.
- Manage external vendors and implementation partners to ensure high-quality delivery and alignment with requirements.
- Act as a bridge between business and IT, translating business needs and processes into effective and sustainable solution designs.
- Contribute to governance activities, including documentation, standards, and compliance adherence
- Support testing, validation, and release activities to ensure solutions meet quality and compliance expectations.
Qualifications and experience
You hold a relevant academic degree – preferably a Master’s degree, with 5+ years of experience from a similar role.
Furthermore you have:
- Experience working with Market Access
- Experience working with Salesforce
- Experience working in regulated environments
- Experience from a start-up or scale-up environment
Key competencies:
You are a strong team player, analytical, and have a can-do attitude.
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 be able to handle ambiguity well and employ a solution-oriented approach to generate new ways forward together with your team.
As the Commercial IT EU Product team continues to evolve, we are looking for a profile who will proactively contribute to product discovery, help shape our ways of working, and play a key role in designing how future Commercial solutions are delivered together with business stakeholders.
Travel: 10-15 days per year
Office: Tuborg Boulevard 12, 2900 Hellerup
Apply now.
To ensure your application is reviewed, please submit it through the specified platform - applications sent by email or other channels will not be evaluated.
For more details about the position or the company, please contact Jakob Monajemzadeh Thrane, People Leader, jmt@ascendispharma.com.
You can learn more about Ascendis by visiting our website,
Applications must be submitted in English and will be treated confidentially.
Please note: As the summer holiday period approaches, you may experience a longer response time than usual. We truly appreciate your patience and thank you for your understanding. We look forward to reviewing your application as soon as possible.
A note to recruiters:
We do not allow external search party solicitation. Presentation of candidates without written permission from the Ascendis Pharma HR team (specifically from: Talent Acquisition Partner or Human Resources Director) is not allowed. If this occurs, your ownership of these candidates will not be acknowledged.
Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2007, Ascendis Pharma is applying its innovative platform technology to build a leading, fully integrated biopharma company focused on making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of patients, science and passion, we utilize our innovative TransCon™ technology platform to create new and potentially best-in-class therapies.Today, we’re advancing programs in Endocrinology Rare Disease, Oncology, and Ophthalmology. We currently have five product candidates in clinical development: three in Endocrinology Rare Disease and two in Oncology. In addition, Ascendis recently announced new pre-clinical programs in Ophthalmology. We are a dynamic, growing biopharma company with headquarters in Copenhagen and additional offices and research facilities in Germany (Heidelberg, Munich, and Berlin) and the United States (Palo Alto, California, and Princeton, New Jersey).
Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2007, Ascendis Pharma is applying its innovative platform technology to build a leading, fully integrated biopharma company focused on making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of patients, science and passion, we utilize our innovative TransCon™ technology platform to create new and potentially best-in-class therapies.
Today, we’re advancing programs in Endocrinology Rare Disease, Oncology, and Ophthalmology. We currently have five product candidates in clinical development: three in Endocrinology Rare Disease and two in Oncology. In addition, Ascendis recently announced new pre-clinical programs in Ophthalmology.
We are a dynamic, growing biopharma company with headquarters in Copenhagen and additional offices and research facilities in Germany (Heidelberg, Munich, and Berlin) and the United States (Palo Alto, California, and Princeton, New Jersey).
