Medical Solutions Lead, Rare Syndromes (Atlanta, GA)

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a Medical Solutions Lead with excellent business acumen, relationship-building skills, and collaboration, to join us in our Epilepsy and Rare Syndromes Medical Affairs team, in a role based in Atlanta, GA corporate headquarters. This role will focus on Rare Syndromes. Relocation assistance is available.

About the role:

The Medical Solutions Lead is accountable for the planning and implementing the Medical Affairs strategy for the assigned therapeutic area (Rare Epilepsy). It serves as a key member of the therapeutic area cross-functional solution team.

You will drive the execution of medical initiatives and tactics to address local gaps in evidence, medical education, and quality of care initiatives.

Who you'll work with:

• Collaborate and align with the Medical Strategy Lead, the cross-functional solutions team, and the customer-facing teams.
• Engage and Partner with internal and external experts and stakeholders to co-create innovative solutions that address gaps in the local care management landscape that will enhance standards of care for patients.
• Seeks and Collect insights on the local care management landscape for the assigned therapeutic area and consults with external experts (eg: advisory board, consolidated field medical insights, competitive intelligence and industry reports and guidelines)
• Engages with National and international Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) in the respective Area country.
• Inform and contribute to developing patient Engagement initiatives and insights collection with patient organizations/advocacy.

What you'll do

• Drives execution of regional and global initiatives adapted to local context and aligned with ecosystem leads, medical operation, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Initiates excellence leveraging innovation and technology to build solutions and communication plans via local omnichannel strategy tailored to stakeholder audiences, planning, and solution development.
• Data dissemination -strategically supports the publication plan in collaboration with the Regional pubs and global scientific communication & publication teams.
• Authors, reviews, and assists with scientific publications, including abstracts, posters, manuscripts, and encore publications. Generates medical and scientific information materials. Ensures accuracy and appropriateness of promotional and non-promotional materials, symposia, and events.
• Develop local medical solutions and initiatives to address identified gaps in evidence generation, medical education, and quality of care, in line with the ecosystem team and local patient value drives for the assigned therapeutic area.
• Understand the patient journey, moments of meaning, and local care management practices for patients to help inform and tailor solutions according to patient value drivers.
• Identify opportunities and support operations related to local RWE evidence studies, IIS (investigator-initiated studies), and registries.
• Lead and contribute to insight collection initiatives such as advisory board and area-country presence at global and local congresses including adapting global symposia and submitting encore publications at local congresses.
• Ensure compliance with the UCB and local regulations (regulatory, pharma codes, etc) for all medical affairs deliverables.

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

Minimum Qualifications

• MD, PhD, PharmD, and/or advanced practitioner
• Minimum of 3 years in a Medical Affairs role within the pharmaceutical industry
• Minimum of 2 years in Epilepsy or Rare disease or similar and translatable clinical experience
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with promotional materials (e.g., review, develop, and edit)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with medical educational materials (e.g., review, develop, and edit)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a first reviewer on medical information materials, abstracts/posters, and/or manuscripts; experience with the corresponding review committee procedures and policies
• Experience with collecting insights and driving insight(s) into an actionable strategy (i.e., proven track record of contribution to medical affairs strategies)
• Solid peer relationships and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Solid relationships and exposure to external scientific/clinical experts (i.e., HCPs)
• Demonstrated ability to proactively engage both internal and external leaders and serve as a subject matter expert for the assigned therapeutic area
• Solid knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry environment and healthcare systems
• Good understanding of clinical study management, clinical development processes, and real-world evidence-generation plans and practices
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Strong leadership and management skills, preferably with experience in projects managed (e.g., metrics/KPI) and delivered via a matrixed organization

This position's reasonably anticipated base salary range is $141,760-$186.060 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.