Make your mark for patients

About the role:

The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) is a field-based, non-sales role responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive provider engagement strategy with national, regional, and local Thought Leaders, as well as establishing strategic partnerships with key medical conferences and professional organizations across Dermatology. This role serves as a catalyst for collaboration between UCB, Medical, and Key Opinion Leaders, helping to elevate UCB’s leadership position and clearly differentiate our value proposition within the immunology market.

Who you’ll work with:

The TLL works cross-functionally with internal partners — including Marketing, Medical Affairs, Sales Leadership, Ecosystem Partnerships, and Regional Sales Leads—to ensure aligned and impactful engagement at congresses, medical meetings, commercial advisory boards, and related activities. Through strong internal and external relationship-building, the TLL plays a critical role in pulling through UCB’s commercial and Patient Value Strategies at national and regional levels, supporting the broader therapeutic portfolio and positioning UCB as a trusted leader and true partner within the specialty communities.

What you’ll do:

• Coordinate and execute commercial KOL meetings and HCP engagement activities at key Dermatology conferences, partnering closely with cross-functional teams to maximize UCB’s presence and strategic impact.
• Collaborate with Marketing to pull through corporate and brand strategy, align on branding execution, and support planning and delivery of commercial advisory boards across both specialties.
• Manage and assist with speaker bureau operations (approximately 35–45% of the role), ensuring seamless execution of peer-to-peer strategies and compliant pull-through of educational initiatives.
• Cultivate, deepen, and maintain strong relationships with national, regional, and local KOLs to inform strategic planning and ensure effective partnership and pull-through.
• Serve as the external “face” of UCB and the Immunology Franchise at key meetings and events, engaging professionally with customers, accounts, physicians, practitioners, industry partners, and consultants.
• Manage complex relationships across multiple customer-facing teams, effectively positioning the TLL role and demonstrating its value to internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong influencing skills with and through others without direct authority to achieve aligned objectives.
• Apply strong project management capabilities to balance multiple high-priority initiatives, assess outcomes, and make data-driven go/no-go decisions.
• Maintain a deep and evolving understanding of the Dermatology business, including customer needs, marketing strategy, and marketplace trends, while adapting approaches accordingly.
• Communicate with excellence—verbally, in writing, and through presentations—and confidently present to groups of varying sizes and seniority levels.
• Consistently operate at the highest levels of UCB compliance, integrity, and professional standards.
• Results-oriented, detail-focused, and able to set priorities while taking appropriate, compliant risks.
• Ability to travel approximately 70%.

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

Basic Requirements:

• BS/BA degree required
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Therapeutic sales, marketing, KOL development and/or other directly related roles

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience working successfully with commercial and non-commercial teams
• Demonstrates scientific knowledge in customer settings
• Proven experience at being able to build processes
• Interpersonal Communication, Negotiation Skills
• Intellectual curiosity
• Successful people leadership experience preferred
• Prior business development experience preferred
• Experience working with a Therapeutic product and/or portfolio preferred
• Prior launch and launch planning experience preferred
• Bachelors’ degree in life sciences, business or healthcare preferred

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. 

Unless explicitly stated in the description, this role is hybrid with 40% of your time spent in the office, regardless of your current contractual agreement. If your current working arrangements differ, please contact your Talent Partner to discuss before submitting your application.

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 [email protected] 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.

Requisition ID: 91921  

Recruiter: Kate Broderick  

Hiring Manager: Andrew Rodman  

Talent Partner: SamUel Corvah

Job Level: MM I 

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