About this role
Make your mark for patients
About the role:
The Head of Medical Affairs, Immunology serves as the senior U.S. medical leader responsible for defining and executing the medical strategy across the Immunology portfolio. This role provides strategic leadership across Dermatology, Rheumatology, and emerging indications, ensuring scientific excellence, evidence generation, external engagement, launch readiness, and lifecycle management activities support improved patient outcomes and organizational objectives.
As a member of the Immunology Leadership Team, the Head of Medical Affairs partners closely with Commercial, Market Access, Clinical Development, Regulatory, and Global Medical Affairs leaders to shape portfolio strategy, influence pipeline decisions, and drive execution of integrated medical plans. The role leads a high-performing Medical Affairs organization while ensuring the highest standards of scientific integrity, compliance, governance, and operational excellence.
What you’ll do:
- Define and execute a comprehensive U.S. Immunology Medical strategy aligned to enterprise and global asset strategies
- Provide medical leadership in launch readiness and lifecycle management
- Oversee scientific exchange and KOL engagement strategy across Dermatology, Rheumatology, and emerging indications
- Partner with Commercial, Market Access, R&D, and Global Medical Affairs leadership to ensure alignment of evidence generation and patient-centric strategies
- Represent both the external scientific/clinical landscape and internal immunology medical affairs impact to senior UCB leadership
- Serving as a US lead representative for providing insight, feedback and direction to global committees and governance affecting asset pre-launch and launch strategies, medical affairs policies, evidence generation strategy and execution, and talent development within medical affairs.
- Maintain inspection readiness and lead responses to audits and regulatory inquiries
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Medical Affairs leaders and field medical teams
- Represent UCB externally in scientific, regulatory, media and advocacy forums
- Drive medical innovation through advanced analytics, digital engagement models, and emerging capabilities that enhance scientific exchange and evidence dissemination.
- Own medical affairs budget planning, forecasting, and resource allocation
- Ensuring yearly medical affairs plans aligned with the Integrated Strategic Plan and global and regional medical critical success factors
- Build and maintain relationships with national and international scientific leaders, professional societies, patient advocacy groups, and healthcare system stakeholders.
Interested? For this position you’ll need the following education, experience and skills:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Doctoral degree (MD/DO, PhD, PharmD) required; MD preferred
- 10+ years Medical Affairs experience in biopharma or equivalent
- 5+ years senior leadership experience managing leaders and teams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Launch and commercialization experience strongly preferred
- Immunology Experience (Dermatology, Rheumatology preferred)
- Track record of shaping strategy and delivering measurable impact in market growth, access, and patient outcomes
- Expertise/experience in the development of medical affairs standard operating procedures and organizational leadership in alignment with said SOPs
- Expertise/experience in US regulatory requirements for NDAs, and post-marketing requirements for compliant medical affairs support
- Ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment with excellent interpersonal skills
This positions reasonably anticipated base salary range is $316,000 to $414,000 per year. The actual salary offered will take into account internal equity and may also vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.
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, 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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