What are the responsibilities and job description for the Alternative Market Access Strategy Lead position at UCB?
Make your mark for patients
We are looking for an Alternative Market Access Strategy Lead to join our Market Access & Pricing Business Unit based out of our HQ in Smyrna, GA
About The Role
At UCB, we believe every patient deserves timely, affordable, and seamless access to the therapies that change lives. The Market Access Strategy Lead, DTP (Direct to Patient) will report to the Alternative Access Strategy Lead and will help redefine how care reaches people by turning barriers into bridges. DTP is an essential complement to UCB’s longstanding commitment to patient-centric access and to broader industry progress, meeting rising expectations for convenience, transparency, and choice. In this role, you will shape our vision for a future where medicines are easier to reach, powered by innovative partnerships and modern digital platforms that extend care beyond traditional channels. Your leadership will put patients first by accelerating access, removing friction, and improving time to therapy, affordability, and adherence so more people can live their best lives.
What You’ll Do
Required:
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.
Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on US-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.
We are looking for an Alternative Market Access Strategy Lead to join our Market Access & Pricing Business Unit based out of our HQ in Smyrna, GA
About The Role
At UCB, we believe every patient deserves timely, affordable, and seamless access to the therapies that change lives. The Market Access Strategy Lead, DTP (Direct to Patient) will report to the Alternative Access Strategy Lead and will help redefine how care reaches people by turning barriers into bridges. DTP is an essential complement to UCB’s longstanding commitment to patient-centric access and to broader industry progress, meeting rising expectations for convenience, transparency, and choice. In this role, you will shape our vision for a future where medicines are easier to reach, powered by innovative partnerships and modern digital platforms that extend care beyond traditional channels. Your leadership will put patients first by accelerating access, removing friction, and improving time to therapy, affordability, and adherence so more people can live their best lives.
What You’ll Do
- Define the long-term vision and roadmap for DTP across UCB’s U.S. portfolio, ensuring alignment with patient centric access principles and corporate objectives.
- Build compelling business cases for investment in DTP initiatives, including pilots and scaleup strategies. Lead cross-functional integration for patient impact
- Drive collaboration with Market Access, Trade, Policy, Legal, Compliance, Finance, IT/Digital, and Business Units to embed DTP into launch and lifecycle planning.
- Ensure seamless alignment between affordability solutions, reimbursement pathways, and patient support programs. Design and optimize patient-first models
- Develop innovative DTP program designs that prioritize speed to therapy, affordability, and adherence while balancing risk/benefit to UCB.
- Serve as UCB’s subject matter expert on DTP partners and models.
- Use analytics to inform pricing constructs, channel strategies, and forecasting; anticipate DTP impact on gross to net and overall brand performance.
- Establish KPIs focused on patient outcomes and experience; monitor performance and recommend optimizations based on insights and ROI.
- Integrate DTP considerations into launch strategies for new products; lead test and learn pilots and scale successful models across brands.
- Partner with marketing and patient engagement teams to ensure messaging reflects the value of DTP for patients and caregivers
- Align strategy with legal, compliance, and regulatory requirement
- Champion innovation and continuous improvement
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Health Policy, Pharmacy, Data/Analytics, or related field (MBA/MPH a plus).
- 10 years of biopharma experience, with significant expertise in Market Access, Trade/Supply Chain, Channel Strategy, Patient
- Support/HUB, Specialty Pharmacy, Digital Health, or adjacent access and fulfillment domains.
- Demonstrated ability to design or navigate patient access solutions that improve affordability, time to therapy, and adherence within U.S. healthcare channels.
- Strong analytical skills with fluency in forecasting, pricing constructs, gross-to-net drivers, and performance dashboards.
- Working knowledge of U.S. regulatory and compliance considerations relevant to patient access and distribution (for example, pharmacy and telehealth rules, price reporting sensitivities, privacy).
- Proven ability to manage and influence a broad range of stakeholders across multiple functions and levels, driving alignment and execution on complex initiatives.
- Excellent communication, influence, and storytelling skills with a track record of aligning cross-functional teams around clear, patient-first decisions.
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.
Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on US-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.
Salary : $164,000 - $216,000