Senior Global Pricing Operations Partner (m/f/d)

UCB; Anderlecht; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

UCB is seeking a Senior Global Pricing Operations Partner to lead end-to-end assessment of complex pricing requests and guide affiliates on governance, processes, and tools. You will translate analyses into clear recommendations and drive strategic pricing operations projects in a global, cross-functional environment.

You will develop pricing policies for key brands, ensure high-quality data, monitor price changes, and deliver quarterly impact reports while coaching peers to maintain

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, economics, finance, business or data analytics.
• At least five years’ relevant pricing, market access, health economics or finance experience.
• Strong pharmaceutical pricing expertise, including governance and cross-market implications.
• Proven experience leading complex, high-impact or cross-market pricing cases.
• Strong analytical, project management, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English skills in global, cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

• You are the main global point of contact for operational pricing questions and processes of your assigned affiliates.
• You guide affiliates to build business cases with the necessary analytics, ensure stakeholder alignment and keep all teams on track with decision-making timelines.
• You assess the financial and cross-market implications and risks of pricing requests and elevate them when needed.
• You develop in-market pricing policies for assigned brands.
• You monitor price changes, ensure pricing decisions are documented and up to date in the system, and provide quarterly reports on price changes and their impact.
• You lead strategic projects to improve pricing tools, processes, automation and digital workflows, while coaching Pricing Operations Partners to ensure high-quality analyses and submissions.

Skills

Analytical

Strategic thinking

Collaborative

Pricing governance

Pricing policies

Stakeholder management

Communication

English proficiency

Project management

Cross-market experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or economics

Job description

Senior Global Pricing Operations Partner (m/f/d)

We are looking for a Senior Global Pricing Operations Partner (m/f/d) who is analytical, strategic and collaborative to join us in our Pricing Operations and Analytics team.

About The Role

As Senior Global Pricing Operations Partner, you will lead the end-to-end assessment of complex and strategically important pricing requests. You will guide affiliates and global stakeholders on pricing governance, processes and tools while evaluating financial and cross-market implications. You will develop pricing policies for key brands, ensure high-quality pricing data and translate complex analyses into clear recommendations. In addition, you will lead strategic pricing operations projects, improve digital workflows and support the development of other Pricing Operations Partners.

Who You’ll Work With

You will work in a global, cross-functional environment, partnering closely with affiliates and regional and global stakeholders. This includes country pricing and market access teams, regional Access and Pricing teams, Global Asset Teams (including the Asset Payer Heads), Global Strategic Pricing and Finance. As a key Pricing Operations contact, you will support business-case owners throughout pricing assessments and collaborate with relevant governance stakeholders (Regional and Global Pricing Committees and Pricing Board) on critical pricing decisions. You will also coach Pricing Operations Partners, providing guidance and ensuring consistently high-quality analyses and submissions. You will report to the Global Pricing Operations Team Lead.

What You’ll Do

• You are the main global point of contact for operational pricing questions and processes of your assigned affiliates.
• You guide affiliates to build business cases with the necessary analytics, ensure stakeholder alignment and keep all teams on track with decision-making timelines.
• You assess the financial and cross-market implications and risks of pricing requests and elevate them when needed.
• You develop in-market pricing policies for assigned brands.
• You monitor price changes, ensure pricing decisions are documented and up to date in the system, and provide quarterly reports on price changes and their impact.
• You lead strategic projects to improve pricing tools, processes, automation and digital workflows, while coaching Pricing Operations Partners to ensure high-quality analyses and submissions.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, economics, finance, business or data analytics.
• At least five years’ relevant pricing, market access, health economics or finance experience.
• Strong pharmaceutical pricing expertise, including governance and cross-market implications.
• Proven experience leading complex, high-impact or cross-market pricing cases.
• Strong analytical, project management, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English skills in global, cross-functional environments.

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 expressly 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 laws.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on [e-mail]. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.