Global Access & Pricing Strategy Lead – Immunology

UCB; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Reasonable accommodation process

Job summary

UCB is seeking an Access & Pricing Strategy Team Lead in Slough, UK or Brussels, Belgium. You will lead a team, partner with Asset Payer Heads, and shape global pricing and access strategies across asset lifecycles.

You will influence governance, prioritise evidence generation, and align stakeholders across HEOR, policy, pricing, and commercial teams to deliver optimal market access outcomes.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Payer strategy

Cross-Functional collaboration

Analytics & AI insights

Stakeholder engagement

People management

Education

Degree in life sciences/health economics

Job description

UCB is seeking an Access & Pricing Strategy Team Lead in Slough, UK or Brussels, Belgium. You will lead a team, partner with Asset Payer Heads, and shape global pricing and access strategies across asset lifecycles.

You will influence governance, prioritise evidence generation, and align stakeholders across HEOR, policy, pricing, and commercial teams to deliver optimal market access outcomes.