Head of Medical Strategy Dermatology

Make your mark for patients

About the role:

The Head of Dermatology Medical Strategy provides medical expertise to the Dermatology commercial and medical teams and provides clinical and scientific guidance to the Medical Affairs team ensuring the successful implementation of the medical portion of the business unit's plan for its products in the dermatology space.

Who you'll work with:

• Develops partnerships with key opinion leaders to help determine existing data gaps and appropriate data mining programs for Dermatology products with indications in therapeutic areas; developing this feedback into an exploratory data analysis plan, approved by the Head of Medical Immunology and implemented.
• Ensures adherence by the team to regulatory and compliance policies and procedures within the therapeutic area and US Medical Affairs.
• Builds, maintains, and nurtures authentic scientific/medical engagement with National and Regional key opinion leaders.
• Assesses the need for planning and running medical advisory boards within appropriate dermatology customer base.

What you'll do:

• Derives strategic medical plans for both marketed Dermatology assets as part of an integrated strategic plan for an asset portfolio approach.
• Develops and leads execution of medical launch preparation plans for pipeline products in dermatology.
• Brainstorms science-related data needs and their communication channels and platforms.
• Assesses the need for and ensures execution of key exploratory data analysis projects (via liaison with Medical Affairs members of Asset Teams, Medical Affairs members of other regions, and biostatistics).
• Medical review of Grants and IIS proposals in the dermatology area.
• Knowledge management - maintains expertise in dermatology by collecting competitive intelligence and disease state expertise from both literature and KOLs (personally and via liaison with the MSL team).
• Data dissemination - in collaboration with the Medical Information team and Publication Manager, manages the annual publication plan in Dermatology.
• Ensures appropriate focus, timely preparation, review and submission of publications at scientific congresses.
• Oversees quality assurance and review of medical materials including brand promotional materials and medical education resources.
• Provides input to global R&D to best represent patient unmet needs in development programs including pipeline assets.
• Education and training - oversees development of training materials and programs to ensure brand teams, sales training department, and the medical teams have appropriate levels of expertise in relevant disease states and with relevant products.
• Accountability as a scientific/medical expert in the dermatology specialty and UCB products as well as their therapeutic category indications.
• Reviews topics for CME events related to relevant therapeutic areas and provides professional input for symposia development and key congresses in accordance with Company educational programs and scientific communications and publications policies.
• Significant travel (approximately 40%, including international) required.

Interested? For this role we're looking for the following

Minimum requirements:

• Doctorate degree is a minimum requirement
• Leadership and management along with employee development expertise is required
• 10+ years of medical affairs experience in biopharmaceuticals

Preferred requirements:

• Any additional scientific/medical training or industry experience in immuno-dermatology related conditions is a plus.

• Will consider MD/dermatologist who is interested in transitioning to industry career.
• Able to build strategic working relationships with both diverse internal and external medical and scientific experts, as well as brand team members
• Ability to think strategically based on both business and scientific principles
• Strong project management skills, including projects managed via a matrix organization
• Self-motivated, proactive problem solver
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills

This positions reasonably anticipated base salary range is $213,000 to $280,000 per year. The actual salary offered will take into account internal equity and may also vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

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 over 9.000 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 equal 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.

At UCB, we've embraced a hybrid-first approach to work, bringing teams together in local hubs to foster collaborative curiosity. Unless explicitly stated in the description or precluded by the nature of the position, roles are hybrid with 40% of your time spent in the office.

UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. UCB invites you to voluntarily self-identify during the application process. Provision of self-identification information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your application for employment, your employment with UCB, or otherwise subject you to any adverse treatment. Any information you provide will be considered confidential and will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders, and regulations.

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