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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 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.
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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.
Internal applicants
Internal applicants should be in their current job for at least 12 months, must meet performance standards and are not on formal corrective/disciplinary process (PIP), warning, final warning, or compliance warning letters within the last 12 months. Please inform your Manager or your Talent Partner before applying to any internal job opportunities.
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UCB’s hybrid-first approach to work
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, this role is hybrid with 40% of your time spent in the office, irrespective of your current contractual agreement. Should your current working arrangements differ, please contact your Talent Partner to discuss, before submitting your application.
Equal opportunity employer
UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable laws.
Reasonable accommodations
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.
- Requisition ID: 94155
- Recruiter: Roya Paganini
- Hiring Manager: Daniel Stiehl
- Talent Partner: Cornelius Luedtke
- Job Level: SM II
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