Business Analytics Lead

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 Insights-to-Impact(I2I)R&Dteam, we are looking for a talented individual to fill the position of:Business Analytics Lead.The job location can be in Belgium (Brussels), UK (Slough/London), Germany (Monheim/ Düsseldorf).

The I2I R&Dteam acts as independent sparring partner to the R&D teams, providing Insights and a transversal resource reallocation challenge, while performing business planning.

As a Business Analytics Lead, you are the thought-partner of our colleagues in R&D in the domain of Advanced Analytics, i.e., building the bridge between business priorities/needs and Advanced Analytics use cases.

You will contribute by:

• Partnering with a large number of stakeholders in the Research & Development domain (Project teams, clinical operations, discovery, ...) to define Analytics projects and deliver insights to support decision making, and steering R&D investments.
• Developing roadmaps: Connecting the dots and triggering discussions with business partners to define potential projects (understand business questions and needs, identify relevant Analytics use cases, drive working sessions with business partners, …).
• Building business cases: Developing and testing the business case for (Advanced) Analytics projects and ensure impact tracking.
• Drive impact: Engaging with respective stakeholders to help converting the Analytics Insights into impact (decisions, committed action plans, …), and steering R&D investments.
• Ensuring projectdelivery: Overseeing the delivery of the Analytics projects, work closely together with UCB teams & external vendors on key analyses to be performed, and distill the key business implications and “so-what’s”.
• Being the transversal connector of Analytics topics between the R&D domains, as well as with other Analytics teams (Go-to-market and Supply & Technology Solutions).
• Driving cultural and mindset change within UCB to increase knowledge and adoption of Advanced Analytics.

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

• Extensive experience with the pharma industry is required: understanding key challenges, business questions and needs (especially in the R&D domain), with an overall 5-10 years of professional experience.
• Ability to think strategic and holistic, connecting the dots between variety of insights, and synthesizing the key implications / so-what’s.
• Proven experience with Advanced Analytics (i.e., understand the various techniques, and what it can deliver). Consulting experience in the domain of Analytics is a plus.
• Ability to identify priorities, deadlines, and expectations on multiple tasks and execute tasks accordingly with a high degree of quality while managing to tight deadlines and changing business needs.
• Skills in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships and being known to articulate complex concepts in clear, brief and easy to understand manner.
• Strong influencing and communication skills, and ability to work in a highly networked and matrix organization.

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.