UCB Posted October 8, 2026

Thought Leader Liaison / Rare Disease Dallas

Dallas, Texas, United States OTHER
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About this opportunity

Make your mark for patients 

We are looking for a Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) who has strong interpersonal and communications skills with command of the medical science surrounding Myasthenia Gravis (MG) for our Rare Disease Organization (RDO) team based in our Thought Leader Liaison opportunity.  This role is a regional-based field position covering the following states: Texas Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Illinois, and Missouri.

 

About the role

The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) is a field-based role that builds trusted relationships with healthcare thought leaders and connects external experts with UCB’s U.S. Rare Disease Organization (RDO). TLL translates insights, coordinates compliant engagement, and partners across functions to support strategy, education, and patient care.

Who you’ll work with

Commercial Teams

Medical Affairs

Marketing, Market Access

Patient Services

Corporate Teams

What you’ll do

Develop purposeful relationships with established and emerging healthcare leaders across priority rare disease communities.

Generate insights by gathering, documenting, and synthesizing external perspectives to identify opportunities and inform strategy.

Develop engagement plans for assigned thought leaders, accounts, and congresses, with clear objectives aligned to business priorities and stakeholder needs.

Enable compliant collaboration by connecting thought leaders with appropriate UCB partners and coordinating engagement across Marketing, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Patient Services, and field teams.

Support priority programs including advisory activities, peer education, congress engagement, speaker development, and other approved initiatives.

Prioritize activity by focusing time and resources on engagements that advance RDO strategy, patient value, and effective ways of working

Maintain disciplined execution through timely planning, documentation, reporting, follow-up, and adherence to UCB policies and applicable industry standards.

 

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

Bachelor’s degree

7+ years’ experience in specialty pharmaceuticals or biotech

5+ years in field sales, product marketing, thought leader engagement or similar

2+ years Thought Leader Liaison experience or role with significant overlap in responsibilities

Ability and willingness to travel 80% of the time required in the field. that will include weekends and evenings

Must live within 1 hour of major airline airport HUB within the territory

Experience managing demanding travel and meeting schedules

Preferred experience

Master’s degree in life sciences, business or healthcare

Demonstrated ability to understand and apply knowledge about complex medical and scientific issues such as those related to the diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care of MG

Strong verbal and written communications skills with a high degree of cultural sensitivity and situational awareness as it relates to engaging with patients, payers, advocates and others living with orphan and rare disease

Experience of working knowledge of US healthcare ecosystem and underlying relationships between practitioners, providers, payers, patients and government

Balancing multiple priorities and levels of interactions across teams and disciplines while still adhering to strict budgets and timelines

Experience working in Myasthenia Gravis or related conditions

Working familiarity with compliment inhibitors and/or neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) based products

Established relationships within the orphan / rare disease provider, patient and advocacy community

Highly skilled at using Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Word

This positions reasonably anticipated base salary range is $ 164,000.00-$215,300.00 annually. The actual salary offered will take into account related knowledge, skills, experience and location among other factors and may fall outside the expected range.

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.

Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Medical Affairs
Therapeutic area
Rare Disease
Location
Dallas, Texas, United States
Employment type
OTHER

How this role compares

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We currently track 1653 comparable Medical Affairs roles across 178 biopharma companies.

1653Comparable roles tracked
1581Currently active
178Companies hiring similar roles
64Countries represented

Salary context

372 of 1653 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

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Lowest disclosed · 2027 Future Talent Program - Global Medical Affairs - Intern · Merck $39,908/yr – $111,111/yr
Peer group range $75,510 – $454,000 (median $214,100)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 1653 comparable roles

United States728
China180
Japan94
United Kingdom71
Germany67
India63

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Seniority mix

1019 of 1653 peers have a known seniority level

Senior256
Director255
Manager220
Associate Director90
Associate80
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc39
Senior Director36
Executive/VP27
Principal16

Therapeutic area mix

576 of 1653 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology246
Neuroscience83
Immunology55
Cardiovascular / CVRM48
Rare Disease48
Dermatology & Aesthetics39
Respiratory21
Vaccines & Infectious Disease15
Gastroenterology13
Ophthalmology8

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