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Your expertise will help shape safe and effective medicines that address unmet needs and improve outcomes for patients living with immune-mediated diseases. 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.\nWho you’ll work with\nYou will lead cross-functional benefit-risk discussions and partner with clinical development, medical affairs, regulatory, patient engagement, quality and real-world evidence colleagues.\nWhat you’ll do\nOwn the benefit-risk assessment and risk management strategy for assigned medicines or indications throughout development and their lifecycle.\nAnalyse clinical, non-clinical, post-marketing, product quality, patient and real-world data to identify and assess emerging risks.\nLead cross-functional benefit-risk discussions, clarify decisions and communicate strategic insights to senior governance groups.\nDesign safety monitoring, evidence generation and risk-minimisation approaches that protect patients and strengthen development decisions.\nPlan, author, review and approve high-quality safety and regulatory documents within agreed timelines and quality standards.\nCoordinate team outputs, delegate activities where appropriate and build effective collaboration across scientific and medical partners.\nInterested? For this role we’re looking for the following education, experience and skills\nBachelor’s/Master’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline; a relevant advanced degree such as a MD/PhD is desirable.\nSubstantial experience in pharmaceutical clinical development, medicine safety, benefit-risk assessment, safety writing or risk management.\nExperience leading complex safety outputs, regulatory submissions and interactions with varied internal and external stakeholders.\nAbility to interpret complex scientific evidence, make transparent decisions and communicate clearly in written and spoken English.\nConfidence working across multiple priorities, short timelines and ambiguity while maintaining quality, integrity and patient focus.\nExperience guiding cross-functional teams; people leadership, coaching or mentoring experience is valuable where relevant.\nAre 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!\nAbout us\nUCB 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.\nWhy work with us?\nAt 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.\nAt 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.\nUCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable laws.\nShould you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on . 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