Impactful Thought Leader Liaison – Rare Diseases

UCB Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

UCB is seeking a Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) for its Rare Disease Organization (RDO) in the United States. This field-based role builds trusted relationships with healthcare thought leaders and translates insights to support strategy, education, and patient care.

The TLL collaborates with Commercial Teams, Medical Affairs, Marketing, Market Access, and Patient Services, with a travel-heavy schedule and hybrid-work flexibility to enable engagement across multiple states.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences or related field.
• 7+ years' experience in specialty pharmaceuticals or biotech.
• 5+ years in field sales, product marketing, thought leader engagement or similar.
• 2+ years Thought Leader Liaison experience or role with significant overlap in responsibilities.
• Ability and willingness to travel 80% of the time required in the field, including weekends and evenings.
• Must live within 1 hour of a major airline airport HUB within the territory.
• Experience managing demanding travel and meeting schedules.

Responsibilities

• Develop purposeful relationships with established and emerging healthcare leaders across priority rare disease communities.
• Generate insights by gathering, documenting, and synthesizing external perspectives to identify opportunities and inform strategy.
• Develop engagement plans for assigned thought leaders, accounts, and congresses, with clear objectives aligned to business priorities and stakeholder needs.
• Enable compliant collaboration by connecting thought leaders with appropriate UCB partners and coordinating engagement across Marketing, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Patient Services, and field teams.
• Support priority programs including advisory activities, peer education, congress engagement, speaker development, and other approved initiatives.
• Prioritize activity by focusing time and resources on engagements that advance RDO strategy, patient value, and effective ways of working.
• Maintain disciplined execution through timely planning, documentation, reporting, follow-up, and adherence to UCB policies and applicable industry standards.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Excel

SharePoint

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

UCB is seeking a Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) for its Rare Disease Organization (RDO) in the United States. This field-based role builds trusted relationships with healthcare thought leaders and translates insights to support strategy, education, and patient care.

The TLL collaborates with Commercial Teams, Medical Affairs, Marketing, Market Access, and Patient Services, with a travel-heavy schedule and hybrid-work flexibility to enable engagement across multiple states.