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We are looking for a strategic, enterprise-minded Neurology Therapeutic Area Head to lead an integrated customer, specialty, and portfolio agenda across our Neurology indications. This leader will connect global and local priorities, guide portfolio choices, develop a high-performing strategy team, and help unlock the full potential of UCB’s Neurology portfolio. This role is based in our Atlanta, GA headquarters.
About the role
In this Senior Director role, you will lead the Neurology Therapeutic Area within Asset Maximization & Stakeholder Excellence, spanning multiple neurology assets. You will serve as a senior, consistent voice for Neurology across asset, regional, country, and enterprise partners while maintaining clear indication-level ownership.
Working closely with Neurology asset teams and Indication Strategy Leads, you will shape an above-indication perspective, align priorities and trade-offs, strengthen external presence, and ensure local teams receive clear, actionable direction.
Who you will work with
You will report to the Head of Asset Maximization & Stakeholder Excellence and lead the Neurology Indication Strategy Leads. Key partners include Neurology asset leadership and PSLTs, Global Customer Strategy, Enterprise Commercial, Global Strategic Planning, Marketing Excellence, Medical, Access, Business Development, regional and country teams, external experts, scientific societies, and patient communities.
What you will do
- Set the customer and specialty agenda: Build one unified, actionable view of customer needs, tensions, and growth opportunities across Neurology indications, bringing local patient, community, and market insights into global strategy.
- Shape a coherent Neurology portfolio: Clarify strategic trade-offs, sequencing, dependencies, and synergies across in-market and peri-launch indications while protecting indication ownership.
- Prioritize shared investment: Recommend allocating shared resources and activities, including congress planning, insight generation, and common investments, to the highest-value opportunities.
- Accelerate decision-making: Establish clear decision rights and thresholds with asset and AM&SE leadership, so cross-indication decisions are resolved at the right level without creating an additional approval gate.
- Represent Neurology with one voice: Provide clear, senior Therapeutic Area leadership to local, asset and enterprise partners while maintaining direct access to indication expertise.
- Strengthen global presence: Advance Therapeutic Area-level scientific and external engagement in alignment with Medical, Access and Patient teams.
- Enable future growth: Translate market evolution, changing customer needs and pipeline opportunities into portfolio choices and support organic and inorganic growth assessments.
- Lead and develop leaders: Set shared objectives, coach performance, build capabilities, support career development and succession, and strengthen team connectivity across Neurology.
- Contribute enterprise leadership: Help shape consistent AM&SE ways of working and increase leadership capacity for portfolio-level priorities.
Interested? For this role, we are looking for the following education, experience, and skills
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in progressively strategic leadership roles with accountability for influencing business strategy and delivering measurable results.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or other relevant advanced degrees.
- Significant Neurology experience, including specialty-market dynamics and leadership of product launches from Phase 2/development through post-launch.
- Demonstrated leadership experience across global and in-country roles, including launch execution, operational leadership, and P&L responsibility.
- Proven ability to develop portfolio and lifecycle strategies, align senior leaders on priorities and trade-offs, and operate across indication, portfolio, and Therapeutic Area levels.
- Strong cross-functional leadership across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, and other key functions, including healthcare projects spanning multiple indications and regions.
- Strong understanding of country-specific regulatory, pricing, reimbursement, and market-access environments.
- Proven experience leading leaders and teams through both direct and matrix management, including recruitment, performance management, talent development, and succession planning.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively within a complex international matrix and mobilize diverse stakeholders around shared objectives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information, influence senior stakeholders, and drive action.
This position's expected salary range is $237,000-$311,000 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.
Make your mark for patients
We are looking for a strategic, enterprise-minded Neurology Therapeutic Area Head to lead an integrated customer, specialty, and portfolio agenda across our Neurology indications. This leader will connect global and local priorities, guide portfolio choices, develop a high-performing strategy team, and help unlock the full potential of UCB’s Neurology portfolio. This role is based in our Atlanta, GA headquarters.
About the role
In this Senior Director role, you will lead the Neurology Therapeutic Area within Asset Maximization & Stakeholder Excellence, spanning multiple neurology assets. You will serve as a senior, consistent voice for Neurology across asset, regional, country, and enterprise partners while maintaining clear indication-level ownership.
Working closely with Neurology asset teams and Indication Strategy Leads, you will shape an above-indication perspective, align priorities and trade-offs, strengthen external presence, and ensure local teams receive clear, actionable direction.
Who you will work with
You will report to the Head of Asset Maximization & Stakeholder Excellence and lead the Neurology Indication Strategy Leads. Key partners include Neurology asset leadership and PSLTs, Global Customer Strategy, Enterprise Commercial, Global Strategic Planning, Marketing Excellence, Medical, Access, Business Development, regional and country teams, external experts, scientific societies, and patient communities.
What you will do
- Set the customer and specialty agenda: Build one unified, actionable view of customer needs, tensions, and growth opportunities across Neurology indications, bringing local patient, community, and market insights into global strategy.
- Shape a coherent Neurology portfolio: Clarify strategic trade-offs, sequencing, dependencies, and synergies across in-market and peri-launch indications while protecting indication ownership.
- Prioritize shared investment: Recommend allocating shared resources and activities, including congress planning, insight generation, and common investments, to the highest-value opportunities.
- Accelerate decision-making: Establish clear decision rights and thresholds with asset and AM&SE leadership, so cross-indication decisions are resolved at the right level without creating an additional approval gate.
- Represent Neurology with one voice: Provide clear, senior Therapeutic Area leadership to local, asset and enterprise partners while maintaining direct access to indication expertise.
- Strengthen global presence: Advance Therapeutic Area-level scientific and external engagement in alignment with Medical, Access and Patient teams.
- Enable future growth: Translate market evolution, changing customer needs and pipeline opportunities into portfolio choices and support organic and inorganic growth assessments.
- Lead and develop leaders: Set shared objectives, coach performance, build capabilities, support career development and succession, and strengthen team connectivity across Neurology.
- Contribute enterprise leadership: Help shape consistent AM&SE ways of working and increase leadership capacity for portfolio-level priorities.
Interested? For this role, we are looking for the following education, experience, and skills
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in progressively strategic leadership roles with accountability for influencing business strategy and delivering measurable results.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or other relevant advanced degrees.
- Significant Neurology experience, including specialty-market dynamics and leadership of product launches from Phase 2/development through post-launch.
- Demonstrated leadership experience across global and in-country roles, including launch execution, operational leadership, and P&L responsibility.
- Proven ability to develop portfolio and lifecycle strategies, align senior leaders on priorities and trade-offs, and operate across indication, portfolio, and Therapeutic Area levels.
- Strong cross-functional leadership across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, and other key functions, including healthcare projects spanning multiple indications and regions.
- Strong understanding of country-specific regulatory, pricing, reimbursement, and market-access environments.
- Proven experience leading leaders and teams through both direct and matrix management, including recruitment, performance management, talent development, and succession planning.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively within a complex international matrix and mobilize diverse stakeholders around shared objectives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information, influence senior stakeholders, and drive action.
This position's expected salary range is $237,000-$311,000 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.
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