Real World Evidence Strategy Lead (UK)

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a Real World Evidence Strategy Lead who is strategic, influential, and deeply knowledgeable in real‑world evidence generation to support the UCB’s Global Real World Evidence team, based in Brussels, Belgium or Slough, UK.

About the Role

As the RWE Strategy Lead, you will provide end‑to‑end strategic leadership for RWE, registry, and outcomes research efforts supporting a key asset. You will anticipate evidence needs across clinical, regulatory, payer, patient, and market stakeholders and design integrated, high‑impact strategies that ensure UCB’s evidence is fit‑for‑purpose at every stage. This highly cross‑functional role requires strong indirect leadership, the ability to orchestrate evidence across teams, and the skill to connect scientific, regulatory, and commercial evidence flows.

Who You’ll Work With

You will collaborate closely with global medical, payer evidence/HE&OR, clinical development, regulatory, safety, epidemiology, and regional Patient Impact teams. You will guide and develop RWE Experts, partner with external thought leaders, and represent the RWE function in internal and external scientific and policy discussions.

What You’ll Do

• Create and drive an integrated RWE strategy supporting stakeholder needs across the asset lifecycle.
• Lead planning of end‑to‑end evidence generation including epidemiology, burden‑of‑illness, care pathways, safety outcomes, and comparative‑effectiveness work.
• Lead and embed Joint Clinical Assessment (JCA) readiness into the integrated evidence‑generation strategy, ensuring real‑world evidence aligns with prioritized EU HTA requirements.
• Oversee systematic integration of JCA considerations across the RWE portfolio, from early evidence planning through robust submissions and subsequent national HTA translations.
• Direct regulatory‑aligned RWE initiatives including external control arms, PASS/PAES/PMS studies, and innovative hybrid designs.
• Provide strategic oversight of RWE study portfolios, ensuring quality, governance, timelines, and resourcing.
• Lead collaboration across asset teams (ISEG, payer evidence, safety, clinical, regional medical) to ensure coherent, aligned evidence planning.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with external experts and organizations to enhance scientific credibility.
• Support optimization of regional and local RWE strategies in collaboration with PIM and regional medical teams.
• Lead and mentor RWE Experts, fostering excellence, development, and cross‑functional capability building.
• Bring subject‑matter expertise to external scientific and policy initiatives representing UCB’s RWE leadership.

Interested? For this role we’re looking for:

• Master’s degree, PhD, MD, or advanced training in epidemiology, HEOR, health data science, statistics, or a quantitative discipline.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience designing and executing RWE, clinical, or evidence strategies in pharma, consulting, or healthcare settings.
• Proven experience working across clinical, regulatory, medical, and payer functions to align complex evidence needs.
• Strong leadership skills, including mentoring and influencing across matrix teams without direct authority.
• Deep understanding of RWE’s role across the lifecycle and familiarity with national HTA and JCA expectations.
• Strategic thinker with digital/AI affinity, comfortable driving innovation in evidence generation.

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.

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