Access & Pricing Strategy Team Lead

Ucb; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UCB is seeking an Access & Pricing Strategy Team Lead to drive payer, access, and pricing strategies across key assets in a hybrid role based in Slough, UK or Brussels. You will lead a team and partner with Asset Payer Heads to translate evidence and market insights into strategic decisions across the asset lifecycle.

You will influence governance, pricing readiness, and cross-functional collaboration with HEOR, policy, and commercial teams, while championing analytics to enhance decision

Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives in global matrix organizations.
• Strong understanding of payer evidence requirements, reimbursement, and pricing.
• Proven people leadership including coaching and capability development.
• Experience using analytics and AI-enabled insights for strategic planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Access & Pricing Strategy Leads with coaching and guidance.
• Partner with Asset Payer Heads to develop global payer access and pricing strategy.
• Lead payer strategy planning, evidence priorities, pricing development and governance.
• Define global access strategies for assigned indications across asset lifecycles.
• Align Patient Evidence and Patient Impact to drive integrated access plans.
• Bring payer insights into leadership discussions and decision forums.
• Collaborate across HEOR, RWE, policy, pricing, commercial and regional teams.
• Champion analytics and AI-enabled insights to strengthen payer planning.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Payer strategy

Market access

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Degree in life sciences / health economics / pharmacy

Job description

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for an Access & Pricing Strategy Team Lead who is strategic, influential, and collaborative to join our Global Patient Evidence organisation, helping shape payer, access, and pricing 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 Team Lead, you will combine strategic asset leadership with people leadership. Acting as a member of the Global Access and Pricing Strategy Leadership Team, and a key partner to Asset Payer Heads, you will help translate payer evidence, policy, pricing, and market access insights into actionable strategic choices that inform critical business decisions throughout the asset lifecycle.

This role sits at the heart of global access strategy, ensuring that payer perspectives are integrated early and consistently into development, evidence generation, pricing, and commercialization planning. In addition to leading strategy for designated asset indications, you will lead and develop a team of Access & Pricing Strategy Leads, strengthening capabilities, ways of working, and strategic excellence across the organization.

Who You’ll Work With

You will work closely with the Head of Global Access and Pricing Strategy, Asset Payer Heads, Patient Evidence, Patient Impact, HEOR, Real-World Evidence, Policy, Pricing, Commercial, Regional and Market Access teams, as well as a broad network of cross-functional stakeholders across the business.

You will act as a connector between functions, ensuring effective collaboration and alignment on payer evidence generation, pricing strategy, reimbursement planning, and launch readiness.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and develop a team of Access & Pricing Strategy Leads, providing coaching, capability building, and strategic guidance.
• Act as a strategic partner to Asset Payer Heads, developing global payer access and pricing strategy, and global deliverables.
• Lead payer strategy planning, evidence generation priorities, pricing strategy development, negotiation readiness activities and key global deliverables.
• Define and operationalize global access and pricing strategies for assigned indications across the asset lifecycle.
• Shape strategic options, risk assessments, and trade‑off discussions to support governance and investment decisions.
• Ensure alignment between Patient Evidence and Patient Impact teams to drive integrated access strategies.
• Bring payer insights and recommendations into key decision‑making forums and leadership discussions.
• Lead cross‑functional collaboration across HEOR, RWE, policy, pricing, commercial, and regional access functions.
• Champion the use of advanced analytics, AI‑enabled insights, and external market intelligence to strengthen payer planning.
• Drive access and pricing excellence through governance, best practices, scalable processes, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strengthen enterprise connectivity and create efficient ways of working that improve decision quality and organizational effectiveness.

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 payer strategy, market access, pricing, health economics, commercial or related pharmaceutical functions.
• Proven experience leading complex cross‑functional initiatives and teams within global matrix organizations.
• Strong understanding of payer evidence requirements, reimbursement processes, pricing strategy, and access planning.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, capability development, and team management.
• Strong strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, influencing, and decision‑making skills.
• Experience leveraging analytics, digital tools, and AI‑enabled insights to support strategic 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, 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.