Market Research and Insights Lead

UCB; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

UCB in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Market Research & Insights Lead to shape inquiry generation and launch readiness for an investigational cell therapy. You’ll translate complex clinical and operational evidence into clear recommendations and work across Commercial, Medical, and Analytics teams.

Lead external partners, manage vendor relationships, and apply agile, AI-enabled methods while ensuring compliance and safety obligations. Hybrid work is supported.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years in market research, analytics or BI in pharma.
• Strong quantitative, qualitative and interpretative skills; ability to synthesize evidence.
• Proven project leadership and vendor management across complex initiatives.
• Clear storytelling for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build an integrated insights plan for mTLE across development and launch readiness.
• Develop insights into the mTLE care and referral pathways.
• Triangulate primary research with claims, RWE, CI and other data for decision-ready recommendations.
• Advise stakeholders and align priorities across functions.
• Lead external partners while ensuring SOPs, governance and pharmacovigilance obligations.
• Apply agile, test-and-learn approaches and approved AI/tools with human oversight.

Skills

Market research

Analytics

Business intelligence

Project leadership

Stakeholder advisory

Data storytelling

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AI tools

Advanced analytics software

Job description

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a strategic, collaborative, and analytically minded Market Research & Insights Lead to shape insight generation and launch readiness for an investigational regenerative cell therapy in drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE), based in our Atlanta, GA office.

About The Role

You will define and prioritize critical business questions, select the right research and analytics approaches, and integrate primary research with claims, referral, real-world evidence, and secondary data. You will translate complex and evolving clinical, patient, caregiver, and operational evidence into clear recommendations that strengthen regional and global decisions without overstating the evidence.

Who You’ll Work With

You will be part of the Integrated Insights team and work across UCB with Commercial, Medical, Advanced Analytics, RWE, Market Access, Patient Engagement, Competitive Intelligence, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance and Safety colleagues. You will partner with external agencies to generate actionable evidence and insights.

What You’ll Do

• Build an integrated insights plan for mTLE across development, market preparation and launch readiness
• Develop insight into the mTLE care and referral pathway
• Explore high-involvement treatment decisions across patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, payers and patient advocacy groups
• Triangulate primary research with claims, referral, RWE, competitive intelligence and other healthcare data to generate decision-ready recommendations
• Advise and constructively challenge stakeholders, align priorities across UCB and create shared ownership without relying on formal authority
• Apply agile, test-and-learn approaches and approved AI or automation tools while preserving confidentiality, compliance, methodological rigor and human oversight
• Lead external partners and ensure research follows global SOPs, governance requirements and pharmacovigilance obligations

Interested? For this role we’re looking for the following

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 7+ years experience in market research, analytics or business intelligence within the pharmaceutical industry, an agency or a consultancy
• Strong quantitative, qualitative and interpretative skills, with the ability to integrate structured and unstructured evidence and communicate data limitations and uncertainty
• Experience reading and using healthcare data and partnering with advanced analytics specialists on integrated insight projects
• Proven project leadership across multiple complex initiatives, including vendor management and compliant research execution
• Strong stakeholder advisory, critical-thinking and influencing skills across functions, geographies and organizational boundaries
• Clear storytelling for technical and non-technical audiences, with the ability to translate scientific and operational complexity into actionable commercial insight

Preferred Requirements

• Direct experience in cell therapy, gene therapy, regenerative medicine or another advanced therapy modality
• Knowledge of epilepsy, drug-resistant mTLE, epilepsy surgery, neurostimulation, specialist-center pathways and referral dynamics
• Experience supporting pipeline or early-stage assets in a scientifically complex environment with incomplete evidence and changing assumptions
• Experience researching complex patient and caregiver decisions, center readiness, and behavioral or operational barriers to adoption
• Proficiency in leveraging approved AI and automation tools to accelerate research, synthesis, and knowledge management, while exercising sound judgment, critical thinking, and appropriate human oversight to ensure reliable and actionable outputs

This position’s reasonably anticipated base salary range is $148,000 - $195,000. The actual salary offered will take into account related knowledge, skills, experience and location among other factors and may fall outside the expected range.

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.