Medical Solutions Lead (Atlanta, GA)

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a Medical Solution Lead with excellent business acumen, relationship-building skills, and collaboration, to join us in our Epilepsy and Rare Syndromes Medical Affairs team, in a role based in Atlanta, GA corporate headquarters. This role will focus on Rare Syndromes. Relocation assistance is available.

About the role:

The Medical Solution Lead is accountable for the planning and implementation of the Medical Affairs strategy for the assigned therapeutic area (Rare Epilepsy). It serves as a key member of the therapeutic area cross-functional solution team.You will drive the execution of medical initiatives and tactics to address local gaps in evidence, medical education, and quality of care initiatives.

What you'll do

• Drives execution of regional and global initiatives adapted to local context and aligned with ecosystem leads, medical operation, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Initiates excellence leveraging innovation and technology to build solutions and communication plans via local omnichannel strategy tailored to stakeholder audiences, planning, and solution development.
• Data dissemination -strategically supports the publication plan in collaboration with the Regional pubs and global scientific communication & publication teams.
• Authors, reviews, and assists with scientific publications, including abstracts, posters, manuscripts, and encore publications. Generates medical and scientific information materials. Ensures accuracy and appropriateness of promotional and non-promotional materials, symposia, and events.
• Develop local medical solutions and initiatives to address identified gaps in evidence generation, medical education, and quality of care, in line with the ecosystem team and local patient value drives for the assigned therapeutic area.
• Understand the patient journey, moments of meaning, and local care management practices for patients to help inform and tailor solutions according to patient value drivers.
• Identify opportunities and support operations related to local RWE evidence studies, IIS (investigator-initiated studies), and registries.
• Lead and contribute to insight collection initiatives such as advisory board and area-country presence at global and local congresses including adapting global symposia and submitting encore publications at local congresses.
• Ensure compliance with the UCB and local regulations (regulatory, pharma codes, etc) for all medical affairs deliverables.

Who you'll work with:

• Collaborate and align with the Medical Strategy Lead, the cross-functional solutions team, and the customer-facing teams.
• Engage and Partner with internal and external experts and stakeholders to co-create innovative solutions that address gaps in the local care management landscape that will enhance standards of care for patients.
• Seeks and Collect insights on the local care management landscape for the assigned therapeutic area and consults with external experts (eg: advisory board, consolidated field medical insights, competitive intelligence and industry reports and guidelines)
• Engages with National and international Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) in the respective Area country.
• Inform and contribute to developing patient Engagement initiatives and insights collection with patient organizations/advocacy.

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

Minimum Qualifications

• MD, PhD, PharmD, and/or advanced practitioner
• Minimum of 3 years in a Medical Affairs role within the pharmaceutical industry in Epilepsy or Rare disease or similar and translatable clinical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 years of experience with promotional materials (e.g., review, develop, and edit)
• 2 years of experience with medical educational materials (e.g., review, develop, and edit)
• Experience as a first reviewer on medical information materials, abstracts/posters, and/or manuscripts; experience with the corresponding review committee procedures and policies
• Experience with collecting insights and driving insight(s) into an actionable strategy (i.e., proven track record of contribution to medical affairs strategies)
• Solid peer relationships and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively engage both internal and external leaders and serve as a subject matter expert for the assigned therapeutic area
• Good understanding of clinical study management, clinical development processes, and real-world evidence-generation plans and practices
• Strong leadership and management skills, preferably with experience in projects managed (e.g., metrics/KPI) and delivered via a matrixed organization

This position's reasonably anticipated salary range is $148,000-194,000 annually. The actual salary offered will consider 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.

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.