Make your mark for patients.

We're here because we want to build the future and transform patients' lives for the better.

At UCB, our people are our experiences and achievements, our passion and drive. That's why we're looking for talented individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences - not just the best and brightest, but those who care about making a meaningful difference in the lives of patients. We promote an environment of diversity, openness, and respect where people can make valuable contributions.

An exciting journey lies ahead. Will you join us in pushing the boundaries of what's possible?

To strengthen our Rare Disease Medical team, we are looking for a talented individual to fill the position of: Global Medical Operations Lead - Rare Diseases to be based either in Boston or Atlanta, US (preferred) or in our HQ in Brussels, Belgium.

The successful candidate will strengthen our operations in Rare Disease Medical Organization with an execution focus. They will use structured approaches from project management, agile operating principles, planning and tracking methodologies, communicating and collaborative skills to deliver on assigned projects either directly with 1) Global Medical Indication Teams (GMITs); and/or 2) Global Evidence Generation Teams (GETs); and/or 3) while supporting key projects on capability enabling, process improvements, systems or tools implementation of medical organization in Global to LOC. Successful candidates will have an exceptional understanding of drug development matrix operations and a fairly good understanding of industry Medical Affairs organizations and capabilities - what they do and how they work together and with other functions.

While reporting to the Head of Rare Medical Strategy, Operations and Digital, this individual will support in one of more of the 3 operational categories below:

1. Global Medical Indication Team (s)(GMIT) Operations: GMITs are core functional medical teams focused per indication in the Rare Medical Organization and are led by the Global Medical Indication Leads (GMIL). You will serve as operations partner and team enabler to ensure cross-functionally aligned execution of medical strategies and tactics. The Operations role will bring forward, to each indication team she/he supports, medical operations best practices that are consistent and structured to not only drive and track successful completion of medical tactics within the Medical Affairs Strategic Plans (MASP) and launch plans but ensure impact by designing and communicating (in partnership with GMIT) regular KPIs and dashboards for each indication leading up to successful launch and post launch LCM of rare assets. The expectations on structure and operating principles are under the direction and in alignment with the Head of MSO and Digital.
2. Global Evidence- Generation Team (GET) Operations: GETs are medically led teams but involve a broader membership from Development, Commercial, Access etc. and these teams ensure an integrated strategic evidence generation plan (ISEG) is developed and executed per indication. You will serve as operational partner and team enabler to ensure cross-functionally aligned development of ISEG with Evidence Generation Leads and Head. The operations role will bring forward, to each GET she/he supports, medical operations best practices that are consistent and structured to not only drive development of ISEG but utilizing best practices in meeting planning, execution and follow-up.
3. Key projects planning and operations: The Rare Disease medical organization at UCB has a vision and mission to ensure we build class leading capabilities and teams with agile and efficient WoW in global, regions and local teams (G2L). This operations role will be a program management best practices expert and will partner with the project lead SME to ensure we utilize best practices that are consistent and structured to quickly and efficiently support the project leads in the execution of the project - within the scope, cost and timeline expected. These projects require a good understanding of drug development and commercialization but in addition must rely on deep understanding of UCB (its transversal capabilities in finance, procurement, IT, compliance, legal etc.), RDO and RD Medical G2L WoW. The impact of these projects is wide and improves effectiveness across many functions.

Additional operational projects may be assigned including patient engagement and advocacy operations, congress planning and execution etc.

You like to work in an environment where you can:

• Facilitate collaborative and data driven decision making and leverage your broad expertise in drug development and deep expertise in medical operations, project and program management
• Ability to take operational ownership of projects within allocated teams or projects with project leads
• Be able to influence people without having direct responsibility over them
• Make a difference in small projects that add up to a big impact or carefully structure complex projects that need to be broken down to smaller ones to have an impactful execution
• Work in diverse and inclusive teams building relationships and partnerships across functions and geographies to deliver high-quality solutions
• Be an operations expert, a thought partner to medical experts and demonstrate passion that truly centers around making a difference in patients' lives

You will contribute by:

• Utilizing structured approaches
• Being a trusted partner
• Working collaboratively
• Being agile
• Being efficient
• Communicating clearly

Interested? For this position you'll need the following education, experience and skills:

Minimum Qualifications:

Position expected at associate director level in biopharmaceutical industry and following education:

• Bachelor's degree or MSc/MS with 7 - 8 years of experience, PharmD or PhD with 3-4 years of experience
• MBA or business degree preferred
• Project Management certification and/or change management experience preferred
• Experience in Rare Diseases is plus but not required
• Knowledge and understanding cross-functional matrix related to pharmaceutical drug development
• IT savvy and analytical always looking to provide innovative solutions to medical team issues - excellent PowerPoint, excel and other data tools/applications. Quick learner of new UCB applications
• Experience in contracting and negotiation and tracking of external partners and agencies is preferred
• Experience budget management and tracking required
• Attention and high level of emphasis to ethics and compliance guidelines and standards
• Willing and able to travel (<20%)

Why you should apply

At UCB, we strive to attract passionate and outstanding talents who thrive on change and are ready to bring real value to patients. Working for us you'll discover a place where you can grow and express your full potential. We place an emphasis on innovation, collaboration and impact.

Through meaningful recognition and a challenging international work atmosphere, we aim to provide an optimal experience by caring about and valuing our employees - just as we do for the patients we serve. Join us!

About UCB in Rare Diseases

We're driven by patient value, not patient numbers.

People with rare diseases often feel forgotten, unheard or misunderstood. The challenges they face can be magnified by isolation, and they may wonder if anyone else cares about what they need. They worry their disease affects too few people for anybody to care.

The greatest needs can't always be measured in numbers. At UCB, we don't just see patients or population sizes, we see people in need. Through decades of serving the neurology and immunology communities, we have improved lives with impactful medicines and by enhancing the social and emotional well-being of patients. As a continuation of our heritage, and a progression of our science, we are expanding our efforts to developing treatments for rare neurological and immunologic diseases where current options offer little hope. We believe our scientific strength in these fields can create genuine value for the patient communities we serve.

Curious to know more? Please visit our website .

UCB and its subsidiaries encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About us.

UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are around 7,600 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

At UCB, everything we do start with a simple question: "How will this create value for people living with severe disease?". We are on a journey to become the patient-preferred biopharma leader by delivering medicines and solutions that improve lives. We want to ensure the creation of patient value, now and into the future, while contributing to a society where a population of 8 billion people and more should be able to live a good life within limited resources of one planet.

Curious to know more? Please visit our website .

UCB and its subsidiaries encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race/color/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity.