Regional Rare Disease Lead - London & South East England

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a Regional Rare Disease Lead to join us in our UK & Ireland Rare Disease team, to be field based covering London & South East England.

About The Role

The Regional Rare Disease Lead represents UCB in the communities we serve as we strive toward transforming the lives of those living with Rare Diseases. Playing an integral role in identifying and building collaborative relationships with all relevant healthcare professional stakeholders, the Regional Rare Disease Lead embraces and executes commercial strategies built on a solid scientific foundation, enabling access for all rare patients we can serve.

Who You’ll Work With

You will report into the Ecosystem Lead – Rare Disease

What You’ll Do

• Consistently and pro-actively operates with the highest level of ethics and integrity serving rare disease patients and in line with local requirements.
• Externally focused and creates value for patients based on insights
• Maintains in-depth understanding of assigned territory in terms of stakeholder needs, patient pathways and ecosystem collaborations
• Executes strategic business/accounts plans including the network/regional patient journey and reflects a thorough understanding of the territory stakeholders involved in the patient pathways
• Delivers/communicates balanced information on new therapies in rare disease areas
• Masters targeted disease states, which include a deep understanding of patient journeys, standards of care, treatment drivers, clinical data (efficacy & safety) on UCB products and competitors
• Advocate for Rare Disease patients and serve as the authority on the various tools and resources UCB offers to support physicians, pharmacists, nurses and other health care providers
  
  

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

• Bachelor’s degree
• High levels of curiosity to understand "the why" and timely execution towards serving rare disease patients
• External impact focused and solution oriented agile team player
• Several years of field-based experience in sales, account management in biopharmaceuticals (research-driven) within a competitive specialty market segment ideally with a strong neurology and rare disease focus.
• Experience/involvement in successful product launches
• Demonstrated ability to maximize impact of multichannel/digital tools and strategy/tactics with territory healthcare professionals that drive impactful results
• Command of key medical, scientific, and healthcare concepts, data analysis, language, and practices related to neurology and rare diseases
  
  

Are you ready to ‘go beyond’ to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!

About Us

UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are around 8,500 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

Why work with us?

At UCB, we don’t just complete tasks, we create value. We aren’t afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equitable opportunities to do their best work. We ‘go beyond’ to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that’s on our patients, our employees, or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential.

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.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on EMEA-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com . Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.