Access & Pricing Strategy Lead - Neurology (United Kingdom)

UCB S.A.; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

UCB is seeking an Access & Pricing Strategy Lead to shape payer and pricing strategies across global assets. Based in Slough, UK or Brussels, Belgium, you will influence without direct authority, partnering with Asset Payer Heads and cross-functional teams to translate payer insights into strategic deliverables.

You'll drive development of payer strategies, evidence plans, pricing approaches, and global deliverables, ensuring access considerations are embedded early in development.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in market access, payer strategy, pricing, health economics, outcomes research, medical affairs, commercial or related pharmaceutical functions.
• Strong understanding of payer evidence requirements and reimbursement processes.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders in global matrix organizations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Asset Payer Heads to co-create global payer, access, and pricing strategies and deliverables.
• Lead development and execution of payer strategies, evidence plans, pricing approaches, and negotiation readiness.
• Shape asset payer potential by guiding clinical development plans and identifying payer risks.
• Define global access strategies and clarify strategic trade-offs and decision points.
• Lead strategic payer engagements and translate external insights into actionable recommendations.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities across Market Access, Pricing, HEOR, RWE, Policy, and regional teams.
• Build alignment across stakeholders and drive decisions through influence and leadership.
• Leverage analytics and external market intelligence to anticipate access risks and opportunities.
• Foster collaboration and capability building across the Access & Pricing community.

Skills

Market access

Payer strategy

Pricing

Stakeholder influence

Education

Degree in Life Sciences or related

Job description

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for an Access & Pricing Strategy Lead who is strategic, influential, and collaborative to join our Global Patient Evidence organisation, helping shape integrated payer, pricing, and access strategies that maximize patient access and long-term value across UCB's portfolio based in Slough, UK or Brussels, Belgium.

About the Role

As Access & Pricing Strategy Lead, you will play a critical role in translating payer, policy, evidence, pricing, and access considerations into actionable strategic choices and global deliverables that support asset success throughout the product lifecycle. Acting as a strategic partner to Asset Payer Heads, you will help shape payer strategies, influence key development and commercialization decisions, and ensure payer perspectives are embedded early and consistently. Working within a complex global environment, you will lead through influence rather than formal authority, aligning diverse stakeholders around shared priorities while driving decision-ready recommendations and high-quality execution. This role offers a unique opportunity to sit at the intersection of payer strategy, market access, evidence generation, pricing, and portfolio decision-making.

Who You'll Work With

You will collaborate closely with Asset Payer Heads, HEOR, Real-World Evidence, Pricing, Policy, Market Access, Patient Impact, Commercial Planning, regional and local market access teams, and a broad network of cross-functional stakeholders. You will act as a key connector across the organization, ensuring payer insights and access considerations are integrated into strategic planning and decision-making.

What You'll Do

• Partner with Asset Payer Heads to co-create global payer, access, and pricing strategies and global deliverables.
• Lead the development and execution of payer strategies, evidence generation plans, pricing approaches, negotiation readiness activities, and key global deliverables.
• Maximize asset payer potential by shaping clinical development plans and identifying payer risks and mitigation and oversee competitive evidence generation strategies that support payer and reimbursement objectives.
• Define global access strategies and provide clarity on strategic trade-offs, dependencies, and decision points.
• Lead strategic payer engagements and translate external insights into actionable business payer perspectives and strategic recommendations within leadership and governance forums.
• Define payer workstreams, budgets, resource requirements, and long-range planning priorities.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities across Market Access, Pricing, HEOR, RWE, Policy, Commercial, and regional teams.
• Build alignment across stakeholders and drive decisions through influence, credibility, and strategic leadership.
• Leverage advanced analytics, AI-enabled insights, and external market intelligence to anticipate future access risks and opportunities.
• Foster collaboration, continuous learning, and capability building across the Access & Pricing community.

Interested? For this role we’re looking for:

• Degree in Life Sciences, Health Economics, Public Health, Pharmacy, Business, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in market access, payer strategy, pricing, health economics, outcomes research, medical affairs, commercial or related pharmaceutical functions.
• Strong understanding of payer evidence requirements, reimbursement processes, pricing strategy, and market access planning.
• Proven ability to work effectively in complex global matrix organizations and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and decision-making skills, with the ability to simplify complexity into actionable leveraging analytics, digital tools, and AI-enabled insights to support business strategy and planning.

Are you ready to ‘go beyond’ to create value and make your mark for patients?

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.

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