Global Medical Communications and Learning Lead

Make your mark for patients

About the role

You will shape scientific communications and learning strategies for assigned assets or therapeutic areas. As a key asset team member, you will translate medical strategy into clear, consistent communications, field medical resources, congress plans and learning programs. You will align scientific evidence, disease understanding and product aspirations across internal and external audiences, while establishing standards, reusable content and impact measures that strengthen medical education, data dissemination and stakeholder decision-making.

Who you'll work with

You will work closely with Global Asset Heads, Global Medical Leads and regional and local medical teams. You will partner across patient impact operations, publications, training, medical information, patient engagement, corporate communications, access and commercial teams, excluding sales. You will also collaborate with medical science liaisons, country representatives, external agencies and the medical community to co-create content, deliver education, support congress engagement and generate scientific insights.

What you'll do

• Lead scientific communication strategies, platforms, lexicons and integrated plans aligned with medical strategy.
• Create field medical content, learning programs and resources supporting education and data dissemination.
• Drive global congress strategy, attendee preparation, educational activities, insights and post-congress reporting.
• Align global, regional and country stakeholders through inclusive content co-creation and scientific consistency.
• Establish reusable content standards, central repositories, technology solutions and meaningful impact metrics.
• Manage agencies, external resources, medical communications budgets, governance and leadership reporting.

Interested? For this role we're looking for the following:

Minimum requirements

• Master's degree in bioscience or a closely related scientific discipline.
• 5+ years' global medical communications, medical education or closely related experience.
• 3+ years' experience leading cross-functional stakeholders, external partners, budgets and complex global deliverables.
• Pharmaceutical industry or agency experience developing scientific communications for medical audiences.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical regulations, industry guidelines and compliant scientific communication practices.
• Excellent written and spoken English, scientific expertise and strategic problem-solving skills.

Preferred requirements

• Doctoral degree in bioscience or a closely related scientific discipline.
• Experience supporting global, regional and local medical communications operations.
• Experience designing onboarding, continuing education and self-directed learning for field medical teams.
• Knowledge of learning principles, preferences and effective adult-learning approaches.
• Experience managing scientific communications technology solutions, vendors and content repositories.
• Proficiency applying artificial intelligence tools to compliant medical communications and content creation.

Salary

The reasonably anticipated salary range for this position is $148,000 to $194,300 per year. 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 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.