Access & Pricing Strategy Lead - Neurology (United Kingdom)

UCB; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

UCB is seeking an Access & Pricing Strategy Lead to shape payer, pricing, and access strategies across the product lifecycle. Based in Slough, UK or Brussels, this role partners with Asset Payer Heads and cross-functional teams to translate evidence, policy, and market data into decision-ready recommendations.

The successful candidate will influence without direct authority, drive strategic payer engagements, develop global access plans, and leverage analytics and AI-enabled insights to maximize

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, 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 ability to simplify complexity into actionable recommendations.
• Experience leveraging analytics, digital tools, and AI-enabled insights to support business strategy and planning.

Responsibilities

• 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 strategies.
• Develop 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 recommendations.
• Present 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.

Skills

Market access

Payer strategy

Pricing

Health economics

Outcomes research

Medical affairs

Commercial functions

Analytical thinking

AI-enabled insights

Influence without authority

Education

Degree in Life Sciences, Health Economics, Public Health, Pharmacy, Business, or related discipline

Job description

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 strategies.
• Develop 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 recommendations.
• Present 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 recommendations.
• Experience 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? 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, and 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.

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