Thought Leader Liaison /Chicago

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

Job summary

UCB seeks a Thought Leader Liaison to advance the epilepsy portfolio across the Mid-Central region, including Illinois. The role focuses on building strategic KOL partnerships, coordinating with Medical Affairs and Sales, and representing UCB at conferences to drive patient value.

You will engage with regional HCPs, manage advisory boards, and ensure compliant, high-level communication of educational content while traveling up to 60% domestically.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in epilepsy, neurology and/or rare disease sales, marketing, medical, KOL development, or related roles.
• 4+ years engaging with KOLs, building partnerships with physicians and HCPs in epilepsy.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 60%.

Responsibilities

• Inform external stakeholders about UCB’s epilepsy strategy and assets.
• Align strategic priorities across internal teams and stakeholders.
• Increase connectivity between UCB and Epilepsy HCPs and KOLs.
• Engage in high-level discussions with HCPs and route to internal stakeholders.
• Triage ideas, issues and proposals from healthcare professionals.
• Develop regional KOLs to execute on engagement plans.
• Work with cross-functional teams to maximize HCP engagement opportunities.
• Organize overall plan and strategy at national conferences.
• Manage project timelines and budgets.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Outlook

Word

PowerPoint

Teams

Job description

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for

We are looking for aThought Leader Liaison(TLL) who is highly collaborative, has holistic thinking with patient access as an end goal and understands the patient journey to join us in our Epilepsy and Rare Syndromes team for the Mid-Central Region: which include, but not limited to the following states: Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin.

About The Role

The Thought Leader Liaison develops and strengths strategic partnerships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) and internal stakeholders. They ensure optimal KOL engagement at medical meetings and commercial advisory boards and will continue to position UCB as an epilepsy market leader, delivering on the Patient Value Strategy throughout the entire Epilepsy portfolio in their region.

This is a portfolio-wide focus on driving impact within Epilepsy and Rare Syndromes inclusive to Dravet, Lennox-Gastaut communities, and patients suffering from partial onset and cluster seizures.

Who You’ll Work With

• The Marketing, Medical Affairs, Regional Advocacy Group Leads, Sales Leadership and Ecosystem Partnerships teams
• Epilepsy KOLs in the region
• Epilepsy Conferences, Advisory Boards, and Patient Advocacy groups
• Members of the UCB speakers bureau

What You’ll Do

• Ensure external stakeholders understand UCB’s broader Epilepsy strategy across our focus on Science, Patient Service, and Solutions (Assets).
• Help inform and align strategic perspectives and priorities across internal teams.
• Increase connectivity and partnership between UCB and Epilepsy and Rare Syndromes HCPs
• Maintain knowledge of current strategies and priorities across teams (not SMEs) to engage in high-level discussions with HCPs when required, with the intent of creating connection and follow-up to the appropriate key internal stakeholder for in-depth discussions.
• Triage ideas, issues, questions, and proposals from healthcare professionals.
• Engage on issues requiring a senior level perspective to understand and resolve.
• Connect healthcare professionals to UCB internal stakeholders.
• Cultivate relationships with KOLs. Develop regional Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) within the epilepsy community to execute on the overall strategic engagement plan.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to maximize UCB’s HCP engagement opportunities.
• Organizing overall plan and strategy at national conferences.
• Manage project timelines & budgets.
• Operates at the highest level of UCB Compliance and professional standards.
• Interface and collaborate with a variety of external and internal partners in a highly professional manner, serving as the "face" of the company at key conference and events.
• Effectively train and develop members of the speaker bureau when needed to ensure effective and compliant communication of key educational content.
• Develops and maintains a keen understanding of the UCB U.S. Neurology, Epilepsy business strategic vision

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

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher required.
• 7+ years of experience in epilepsy, neurology and/or rare disease sales, marketing, medical, KOL development, or other closely related roles.
• 4+ years of experience engaging in and developing relationships with KOLs, including a proven track record of building effective partnerships with physicians and Healthcare Professionals within the epilepsy space.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 60%.

Preferred

• Proven experience at being able to build processes and execute on strategic plans.
• Experience working successfully with various internal stakeholders.
• Ability to interface with key customers, accounts, physicians, practitioners, industry contacts, and consultants, to accomplish corporate objectives
• Must have proficiency with Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams.
• Home office / corporate / management experience.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the epilepsy market in order to have a consultative relationship with KOLs.

This positions reasonably anticipated base salary range is $164,000.00 -$215,300.00 annually. The actual salary offered will take into account related knowledge, skills, experience and location among other factors and may fall outside the expected range.

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, and 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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