About this opportunity
Make your mark for patients
We are looking for a Benefit-Risk Lead who is scientifically curious, collaborative and decisive to join our Patient Benefit-Risk and Medical Safety team, based in our Belgium, Braine l’Alleud, or United Kingdom, Slough or United States, Atlanta hubs.
About the role
You will contribute directly to cutting-edge work in combinatorial immunotherapy and cell depletion. Your expertise will help shape safe and effective medicines that address unmet needs and improve outcomes for patients living with immune-mediated diseases. You will shape the end-to-end benefit-risk strategy for assets or candidates in UCB’s innovative development pipeline, bringing together emerging safety evidence, patient insight and clinical data. This highly visible role influences complex development decisions, risk management and governance while helping a growing team deliver safe and effective treatments for patients.
Who you’ll work with
You will lead cross-functional benefit-risk discussions and partner with clinical development, medical affairs, regulatory, patient engagement, quality and real-world evidence colleagues.
What you’ll do
Own the benefit-risk assessment and risk management strategy for assigned medicines or indications throughout development and their lifecycle.
Analyse clinical, non-clinical, post-marketing, product quality, patient and real-world data to identify and assess emerging risks.
Lead cross-functional benefit-risk discussions, clarify decisions and communicate strategic insights to senior governance groups.
Design safety monitoring, evidence generation and risk-minimisation approaches that protect patients and strengthen development decisions.
Plan, author, review and approve high-quality safety and regulatory documents within agreed timelines and quality standards.
Coordinate team outputs, delegate activities where appropriate and build effective collaboration across scientific and medical partners.
Interested? For this role we’re looking for the following education, experience and skills
Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline; a relevant advanced degree such as a MD/PhD is desirable.
Substantial experience in pharmaceutical clinical development, medicine safety, benefit-risk assessment, safety writing or risk management.
Experience leading complex safety outputs, regulatory submissions and interactions with varied internal and external stakeholders.
Ability to interpret complex scientific evidence, make transparent decisions and communicate clearly in written and spoken English.
Confidence working across multiple priorities, short timelines and ambiguity while maintaining quality, integrity and patient focus.
Experience guiding cross-functional teams; people leadership, coaching or mentoring experience is valuable where relevant.
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 expressly 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 laws.
Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on EMEA-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.
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