Thought Leader Liaison / Rare Disease

UCB; Chicago (IL); Híbrido; USD 164.000 - 215.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

UCB is seeking a Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) for a regional, field-based role in the U.S. Rare Disease Organization. The TLL will build relationships with healthcare thought leaders, translate insights, and coordinate compliant engagement to support strategy, education, and patient care.

The position covers multiple states and requires extensive travel (up to 80%), with a hybrid work model and a focus on MG-related knowledge. Base salary range is $164,000–$215,300 annually.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• 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 similar role.
• Willingness to travel 80% of the time, 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.
• Enable compliant collaboration by connecting thought leaders with appropriate UCB partners and coordinating engagement across departments.
• Support priority programs including advisory activities, peer education, congress engagement, and speaker development.
• Prioritize activity to advance RDO strategy and patient value.
• Maintain disciplined execution through planning, documentation, reporting, follow-up, and policy adherence.

Educación

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree in life sciences, business or healthcare

Herramientas

Excel

SharePoint

PowerPoint

Word

Descripción del empleo

Make your mark for patients

Texas Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Illinois, and Missouri.

About The Role

The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) is a field-based role that builds trusted relationships with healthcare thought leaders and connects external experts with UCB's U.S. Rare Disease Organization (RDO). TLL translates insights, coordinates compliant engagement, and partners across functions to support strategy, education, and patient care.

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) who has strong interpersonal and communications skills with command of the medical science surrounding Myasthenia Gravis (MG) for our Rare Disease Organization (RDO) team based in our Thought Leader Liaison opportunity. This role is a regional-based field position covering the following states: Texas Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Illinois, and Missouri.

About The Role

The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) is a field-based role that builds trusted relationships with healthcare thought leaders and connects external experts with UCB's U.S. Rare Disease Organization (RDO). TLL translates insights, coordinates compliant engagement, and partners across functions to support strategy, education, and patient care.

Who You’ll Work With

• Commercial Teams
• Medical Affairs
• Marketing, Market Access
• Patient Services
• Corporate Teams

What You’ll Do

• 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.

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

• Bachelor’s degree
• 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. that will include weekends and evenings
• Must live within 1 hour of major airline airport HUB within the territory
• Experience managing demanding travel and meeting schedules

Preferred Experience

• Master’s degree in life sciences, business or healthcare
• Demonstrated ability to understand and apply knowledge about complex medical and scientific issues such as those related to the diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care of MG
• Strong verbal and written communications skills with a high degree of cultural sensitivity and situational awareness as it relates to engaging with patients, payers, advocates and others living with orphan and rare disease
• Experience of working knowledge of US healthcare ecosystem and underlying relationships between practitioners, providers, payers, patients and government
• Balancing multiple priorities and levels of interactions across teams and disciplines while still adhering to strict budgets and timelines
• Experience working in Myasthenia Gravis or related conditions
• Working familiarity with compliment inhibitors and/or neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) based products
• Established relationships within the orphan / rare disease provider, patient and advocacy community
• Highly skilled at using Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Word

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.

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'll embrace 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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