Head of Global Advanced Analytics - Patient Solutions

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for Head of Global Advanced Analytics - Patient Solutions who is influential, emotionally intelligent, and innovative to join us in our Global Integrated Insights and Analytics team. This position can be remote/virtual and is designed to specifically support Eastern time zones (standard hours of operations 8:30am ET to 5:00pm EST). Role will require up to 20% travel to existing UCB sites.

About the role

You will deliver data-driven actionable insights that create patient value and ensure the right allocation of resources for insight generation. This role leads an analytics team focused on commercial assessments and viabilities for our early pharma assets within the Global Advanced Analytics Engine (the center of excellence and delivery for strategic, tactical, and operational guidance, expertise, and execution capacity), providing knowledge and actionable insights to drive objective, evidence-based decision-making to support our pipeline drugs, helping create strategic insights for commercial planning.

Who you'll work with

You will lead a team of up to eight direct reports and will also work with other teams including new product planning, real world evidence, translational medicine, clinical trial operations and recruitment, and clinical strategy teams. You will also work with Commercial teams, finance and science and technology Services. Externally, you may work with data insights contractors/vendors.

What you'll do

• Drive early patient solutions strategic objectives by supporting fact-based decision making through data and analytics projects.
• Ensure that the right seats at the relevant tables are "earned" to secure the advanced analytics function involvement in the right discussions with the right stakeholders.
• Evolve the adoption and usage of (secondary) data and advanced analytics by demonstrating its impact and evolve UCB to become a reference in the industry.
• Drive an enhanced communication capabilities within your team where people obtain a deep business understanding.
• Translate business questions into tangible solutions and outcomes.
• Drive deep partnership with the Hub insights teams.
• Foster the ideation and creation of new analytics capabilities and models where driving impact for UCB.

• Be the corporate leader of data-driven insights to support tactical business opportunities, and be a champion for a data-driven, decision-making culture.
• Will be a member of the Global Advanced Analytics leadership team.

Interested? For this role we're looking for the following education, experience, and skills

• Master/Doctor's degree in quantitative area is preferred, Bachelor's is required.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in acting as a bridge between functional and technical teams, challenging each team on their assumptions.
• Strong experience working in early patient solutions within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Thrive working in a fast-paced, innovative environment while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, and efficient.
• You must also be able to interpret model results and identify potential model errors (e.g., overfitting, model bias, correlation vs causation).
• You are driven by impact and posses strong creativity in piercing through disparate data sets to solve business questions.
• Ability to tailor your communication style to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• You can create creative solutions to technical and organizational roadblocks that can immerge.
• You have an agile mindset and love to test-and-learn.
  

This positions reasonably anticipated base salary range is $177,200 - $232,575 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 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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent, and adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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