Account Experience Specialist, Miami, FL

UCB; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

UCB is seeking an Account Experience Specialist to join the Rare Syndromes-U.S. Epilepsy Team for the Miami, FL geography.

You will be the primary in-office liaison for REMS education and onboarding, facilitating the progression of patients to active therapy and serving as the link between accounts and our external specialty pharmacy partner. Your responsibilities include educating providers and staff, building partnerships to navigate the REMS process, addressing barriers to therapy initiation,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required (BA/BS).
• At least 2 years of biotechnology account management or sales experience.
• Experience with REMS, CNS or rare/orphan drugs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Educate and support REMS education for the REMS and ONWARD patient service programs.
• Build partnerships with HCP offices to navigate the REMS process.
• Resolve procedural barriers delaying therapy initiation.
• Coordinate care with internal and external teams for local onboarding and activation.
• Conduct patient case reviews with local HCPs, staff, and specialty pharmacies.
• Deliver training to neurology and ECHO offices (in-person and virtual).
• Provide regular feedback to improve ONWARD and REMS processes.

Skills

Biotech account management

Sales experience

CNS/neuroscience knowledge

Epilepsy product knowledge

Relationship building

Communication

Problem solving

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree (BA/BS)

Master's degree

Job description

Make your mark for patients

We seek an energetic and accomplished Account Experience Specialist (AES) to join our Rare Syndromes-U.S. Epilepsy Team for the Miami, FL geography.

As an AES, you will be the primary in-office liaison for Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) education and onboarding. You'll facilitate the procedural progression of patients to active therapy, acting as the key link between accounts and our external specialty pharmacy (SP) partner. Your responsibilities will include conducting patient case reviews, manage outstanding requests, and ensuring compliance with REMS procedural requirements in a geography that includes Miami and southern Florida (including Tampa), and Puerto Rico.

What You'll Do:

• Educate and Support: Provide clinical and procedural education for the REMS and ONWARD patient service programs to ensure understanding among healthcare providers (HCPs), office staff, and caregivers/patients.
• Build Partnerships: Establish and expand stakeholder relationships, helping HCP offices navigate the post-referral REMS process to ensure compliance and patient safety.
• Resolve Issues: Proactively address procedural barriers and issues delaying therapy initiation, collaborating with broader teams to diagnose and resolve problems.
• Coordinate Care: Work with internal and external teams to strategically coordinate care at the local level, ensuring a smooth patient onboarding and treatment activation experience.
• Conduct Reviews: Perform patient case reviews with local HCPs, office staff, field teams, and specialty pharmacies to mitigate delays and enhance the ONWARD patient support program.
• Deliver Training: Present and train stakeholders (neurology and ECHO offices) both in-person and via audio conferences, preparing materials, answering questions, and conducting follow-ups as needed.
• Provide Feedback: Offer regular feedback to internal teams to improve ONWARD and REMS processes, elevating the patient journey.
• Travel: Be prepared to travel up to 80%, including overnight stays as necessary.

Who You'll Work With:

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners, including Key Account Managers, specialty pharmacy partners, medical science liaisons, and others.
• Play a key role in strategic account management, addressing and solving stakeholder and caregiver needs in real-time.

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

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required (BA/BS)
• Minimum of 2 years of Biotechnology/Biopharmaceutical account management or sales experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or other advanced degree
• Proven, documented track record of delivering consistent qualitative and quantitative results
• 2 years of rare/orphan drug experience is highly preferred or significant account management or sales experience in CNS/neuroscience
• Promoting products specific to CNS/neuroscience, including epilepsy
• Strong relationship building and clinical experience with the ability to clearly communicate complex processes
• Demonstrated ability to quickly identify and resolve issues and conflict to enhance customer experience
• New product launch experience
• Specialty pharmacy and/or REMS experience
• Previous experience in other functions within the biopharmaceutical industry a plus (e.g. managed care, marketing, field sales, case management)

Salary range:

This position’s anticipated base salary range is $95,000 - $124,000 per year. The actual salary offered may also vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity, among other factors.

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 explicitly 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 federal, state, or local law. UCB invites you to voluntarily self-identify during the application process. Provision of self-identification information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your application for employment, your employment with UCB, or otherwise subject you to any adverse treatment. Any information you provide will be considered confidential and will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders, and regulations.

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