Advanced Analytics Business Translator

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?

Location can be: Belgium, UK, Germany, France, Italy or Spain.

To strengthen our Global Analytics & Data Foundation team, based in our HQ officesin Brussels, Belgium, we are looking for a talented individual to fill the position of: Advanced Analytics Business Translator.

As an Advanced Analytics Business Translator you will you help to ensure that UCB achieves its strategic objectives (as resource allocation, commercial success and new launches) by supporting fact based decision making through analytics projects.

You like to work in anenvironmentwhere you can:

• Play an essential role in creating a bridge between the technical expertise of data engineers and data scientists/insight finders and the business understanding of different areas across UCB
• Help to ensure that the insights generated through analytics are contextualized and translated into impact at scale for different areas across UCB
• Be claimed as your own by both technical and business teams. This means that business translators are equal parts technical and functional in their expertise and interests

You willcontributeby:

• Drawing on your domain knowledge to help business leaders identify and prioritize high impact business problems
• Using your working knowledge of AI and analytics to translate the business problems to the data professionals who will create the models and analytics solutions
• Ensuring that the solution produces insights that the business can interpret and execute on, and communicate these insights to business users to drive adoption and ensure discussions on the implementation, supporting, if needed the potential corrective actions.
• Advocating and driving a culture of data-driven and fact-based decision making

Interested? For this position you’ll need the followingeducation, experienceandskills:

• Domain knowledge
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry is a strong plus.
• Mastering project management skills is a must. As a translator, you should be able to guide an analytics project from ideation through production and adoption. This means you have an understanding of the life cycle of an analytics project and are aware of the common pitfalls
• You can build bridges between the functional and technical teams, while challenging each team on their assumptions
• As a translator, you possess strong quantitative skills and you are a structured problem solver
• You don’t necessarily need to be able to build analytics models yourself, but you need to be knowledgeable of what types of models are available and to what business problems they can be applied
• You need to be able to challenge the data engineers and data scientist and possess an 80/20 mindset to push for fast model iterations
• As a translator, you must also be able to interpret model results and identify potential model errors (e.g., overfitting, model bias, correlation vs causation)
• You have an agile mindset and love to test-and-learn
• You are a crisp communicator and can tailor your communication style to technical and non-technical audiences alike. This means you can build a storyline to communicate the analyses to business leaders
• You have an intrapreneurial spirit and can create creative solutions to technical and organizational roadblocks that can immerge
• You are driven by impact

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 motivating 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.

If you believe you are the perfect match to join us on our pioneering adventure, then we invite you to apply and tell us more about your profile and motivation.

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.