About this role
Make your mark for patients
About the role:
The Field Medical Lead (FML) will strategically oversee a therapeutically aligned Medical Science Liaison (MSL) team and provide executive medical presence in assigned ecosystems, providing leadership, coaching, and accountability to drive individual and team results. MSLs are accountable for delivering and differentiating the immunology clinical value proposition to regional and national KOLs, key medical associations, as well as regional payers and IDN immunology stakeholders and decision makers.
The FML will lead, inspire, and model cooperative teamwork behaviors that enables their MSL team to be accountable for creating and coordinating medical strategies and tactics to be executed in concert with iPVU team members of the local immunology ecosystem. The FML will provide strategic leadership and coaching that appropriately engages and integrates multi-disciplinary iPVU resources and expertise - to develop and expand medical relationships with key immunology micro-ecosystem stakeholders.
What you’ll do:
- Coach and develop deep MSL strategic understanding of diverse immunology micro-ecosystems, interconnectivity of large immunology customers and local payer/IDN healthcare models.
- Coach and model high impact medical engagement, delivery and differentiation of immunology value proposition to immunology to key immunology ecosystem decision-makers
- Lead and contribute to local ecosystem medical strategy and resource development with internal medical support to generate innovative immunology clinical value proposition content
- Coach and model development of strategic partnering relationships with key immunology executive population stakeholders
- Lead and model a deep understanding of medical influencers in each ecosystem
- Partner and lead in concert with Sales Leadership, IEPLs, and Outcomes Specialists to create strong internal and external working relationships that define, and coordinate local strategic imperatives
- Operates at the highest level of UCB compliance and professional standards. Compliance is a part of how we operate within UCB. Adherence to compliant behavior is an expectation at UCB and demonstrated by embracing ethical decision-making practices and guidelines in all aspects of our organization.
Interested? For this position you’ll need the following education, experience and skills:
Basic Qualifications:
- MD, PharmD, DO, or PhD in a relevant field
- 5+ years of experience of medical affairs and/or field medical experience
- 2+ years of relevant therapeutic area experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience as a strategic medical leader in an industry setting
- 3+ years effectively managing a field medical team
- 3+ years of relevant therapeutic area experience
- Established relationships with key medical groups and IDNs preferred
- Demonstrated success in planning and executing market shaping medical strategies in support of clinical value propositions
- Demonstrated experience and documented success leading teams in cross-functional matrix environment
- Strong proficiency in understanding large medical group/IDN and health plan healthcare models
- Demonstrated line leadership skills in managing, developing, and influencing teams
- Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications
- Demonstrated strength in strategic medical planning, tactical plan development and execution
This positions reasonably anticipated base salary range is $182,000 to $239,000 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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