Commercial and Medical Operations Lead Rare Diseases

**Make your mark for patients**

We are looking for a **Commercial and Medical Operations Lead Rare Diseases** who is **driven by excellence, multi-disciplinary and passionate** to join us in our **Commercial and Medical Operations and Excellence** team, based in our **HQ in Brussels, Belgium **or other major Rare Disease hub.

**About the role**

**Who you’ll work with**

We are building a culture of collaboration, accountability, agility and swift entrepreneurial action in Rare Diseases at UCB. The Rare Disease Organization is a team, filled with diverse colleagues who will lead UCB’s future development in rare disease. The Rare Disease Organization represents a tremendous source of UCB’s future growth potential. The investments made today must be thoughtfully placed, carefully nurtured, impartially measured and transparently communicated.

**What you’ll do***
- **GRPT sub-team operations and planning leadership**:

- As a core member of the sub-team assigned, drive integrated plan development on an annual cycle
- Ensure sub-team plans are aligned with cross-functional Global Region Program Teams strategies
- Build strong relationships with each sub-team member and gain a high-level view of their projects within the sub-team plan
- ** GRPT sub-team Project Management**:

- Drive successful and timely completion of sub-team deliverables and projects (as assigned)
- Develop sub-team budget under the RDO budget planning process provided to them; partner with and UCB finance representatives as needed
- Serve as an operations liaison on projects that require HCP engagement in medical (advisory boards, symposia etc.) and advisory boards (commercial) ensure activity requirements are properly completed and tracked by the HCP Contracting Coordinator (internal or outsourced); ensure ethics, compliance and procurement criteria are met.
- Drive goal setting and metrics development (and subsequent tracking) for Medical Sub-Team and Commercial Sub-Team
- Identify team and program risks and implement and manage mitigation plans as needed (project timelines etc.)
- Proactively plan and manage sub-team activities including team meetings, strategic planning, offsites, and team building
- In partnership with the Sub-team leads, identify, escalate, and monitor resolution of issues and actions
- Support training and onboarding of new team members

**You like to work in an** **environment where you can**:

- Facilitate collaborative and data driven decision making and leverage your broad and deep expertise in drug development, operations, project and program management
- Ability to work in provided governance and matrix operations frameworks
- Ability to flag and escalate derailing from key principles of RDO2.0
- Ability to lead and take operational ownership of projects within GMIT without having direct responsibility of team members or partners you influence
- Facilitate global to local interactions with a keen understanding of the G2M model in medical and commercial
- Work in diverse and inclusive teams building relationships and partnerships across functions and geographies to deliver high-quality solutions
- Be an operations expert, a thought partner to medical experts and demonstrate passion that truly centers around making a difference in patients’ lives
- ** RDO Operations Support**:

- Support RDO operations initiatives as assigned by Head of Commercial and Medical Operations and Excellence that will lead RDO to the mindset of agility and excellence

**I**nterested? For this role we’re looking for the following** **education, experience** **and **skills**

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree or MSc/MS with 7+ years of experience, PharmD or PhD with 4 + years of experience in biopharma operations and/or program management roles
- Preferred Project Management Professional certification
- Change management experience, MBA or business degree a plus
- Experience in Rare Diseases is plus but not required
- Experience in Neurology or Haematology a plus but not required
- Strong knowledge and understanding cross-functional matrix related to pharmaceutical drug development, knowledge of activities and deliverables of medical specialities and commercial
- Experience in contracting and negotiation and tracking of external partners and agencies is preferred
- Budget management and tracking experience in medical, commercial or similar teams
- Attention and high level of emphasis to ethics and compliance guidelines and standards
- Willing and able to travel (~20%)

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 around 8,500 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

**Why work for us?**
At UCB, we don’t just complete tasks, we create value. We aren’t afraid to pus