Global Pricing Director

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 Global Market Access and External Engagement team, based in the UK, Belgium or EU5, we are looking for a talented individual to fill the position of:

Global Pricing Lead (Director)

The Global Pricing Leadwill be based in Belgium, UK, Germany, France, Spain or Italy and play a key role in the Global Patient Access practice. You will be responsible for developing and delivering the global pricing strategy of a Phase III asset in preparation for launch, and contributing to global operational pricing activities such as launch sequence optimisation, escalating of pricing business cases to global pricing committee and to the optimisation of current global pricing tools and processes.

You like to work in an environment where you can:

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  Bring Payer insight, strategic thinking and technical expertise to all aspects of pricing strategy development
• Collaborate with key functional Asset Leads such as commercial, access, medica, and the overall Payer Value Strategy Lead to ensure the pricing strategy is built around a compelling value proposition
• Create a value proposition specific for a well-defined patient subpopulation, equipped with appropriate future evidence generation plans
• Future proof the Global pricing strategy by researching insightful analysis of emerging trends in major payer systems around the world
• Lead the operation of the Global Pricing Strategy, establishing an optimal launch sequence and supporting the local affiliates with the launch price business cases
• Maintain pricing governance, maintaining SOPs, optimising different global pricing tools such as pricing databases and dashboards, and contribute to ad-hoc pricing projects

You will contribute by:

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  Providing proactive leadership and orchestration of the complete global pricing strategy
• Aligning access and pricing assumptions with the target product profile
• Coordinating and driving strategic acquisition of payer insights
• Adapting asset strategies according to evolving healthcare ecosystems in the US, EU, China
• Coordinating and leveraging relevant Health Economic analyses
• Designing and driving relevant and savvy pricing research
• Developing a modern and innovative value- based pricing strategy
• Contributing to UCB’s pricing forecast in line with UCB’s strategic framework
• Establishing optimal launch sequence
• Acting as a key partner and trusted partner to the Asset Team and cross functional leaders

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

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  Strong experience of hands on experience in designing global price and access strategies, overseeing access and health economics
• Extensive knowledge of the US and EU5 healthcare systems
• Experience working within a pharmaceutical environment
• Strong leadership qualities and communication skills
• Ability to problem solve and assimilate data quickly
• Experience working within a multi-disciplinary matrix environment
• Holistic and big picture thinking across assets, geographies and over a 10-year horizon
• Existing relations and network within access

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.

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.