Head of Business Partnering Patient Evidence Assets

Make your mark for patients

Purpose of the Role

We are looking for a Head of Business Partnering Patient Evidence Assets who is Collaborative, Analytical and Impact-focused to join our Insight-to-Impact Patient Solutions and Patient Evidence team.

The team covers Patient Solutions (research and early clinical development), Patient Evidence (late-stage clinical development up to launch) and the transversal view of global R&D. The expected outcome is to augment decision making and drive resources re/allocation across the value chain through actionable insights to maximize value for patients, stakeholders and shareholders. 

The scope of the role is late-stage assets of Patient Evidence. Through your role, Patient Evidence becomes an engine for impact, enabling UCB to prioritize what matters most for patients while supporting sustainable and responsible portfolio choices.

Role Summary

As our Head of Business Partnering Patient Evidence Assets, you will contribute to thoughtful decisions that connect science, investment, and patient value. By shaping clear and coherent business cases, you will help ensure development choices support meaningful outcomes for patients. You will make complex topics easier to understand, enabling careful prioritization across research efforts. Your contribution will strengthen decision‑making by connecting human impact with scientific ambition and responsible financial stewardship.

What will you do:

• Own, build and maintain the financial and strategic business case for assigned assets and programs.
• Translate technical, clinical, and CMC choices into clear P&L, cash‑out, risk, and value implications.
• Ensure cross‑asset consistency across assumptions, methodologies, timelines, and financial treatment.
• Prepare and coordinate governance materials, ensuring decisions are supported by clear strategic options.
• Act as a trusted sparring partner to senior leaders by framing issues early, sequencing discussions appropriately, and avoiding late surprises.
• Act as the integration point between Asset Teams, Finance, Patient Evidence, Patient Supply, Pricing, and other Insight to Impact communities.
• Identify risks and ensure they are properly reflected in scenarios, communicated to leadership and tracked along the decision-making process.
• Lead and develop a focused team of Finance Business Partners, setting clear direction, ensuring consistent standards, and fostering a high‑performance culture.
• As a member of the Insight-to-Impact Patient Solutions & Patient Evidence Leadership team, contribute to function strategy, ways of working, and cross‑functional alignment, acting as a role model for inclusive and effective leadership.

Who You Will Work With

You will work in a collaborative and supportive environment alongside colleagues from patient evidence, research, finance, patient supply, and pricing. By partnering closely with asset teams and leaders across the organization, you will help translate complexity into clarity—ensuring that risks, trade‑offs, and opportunities are well understood and decisions are ready for action.

Interested? For this position you’ll need the following education, experience, and skills:

• University degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Medicine, Life Sciences, Business Administration or comparable areas).
• Experience in supporting asset decisions in a biopharmaceutical environment.
• Good understanding of research and clinical development process with exposure to asset-level and portfolio-level decision making process.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, through either formal people management roles or informal leadership (e.g. leading through influence, mentoring, or driving alignment in matrix settings).
• Holistic thinking with ability to connect science, patient needs and commercial opportunity.
• Strategic mindset with ability to translate strategic considerations into financial implications.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills at executive level.
• Comfortable with operating in ambiguity and navigating complex regulatory and organizational environments.
• Professional fluent in English.

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 [email protected]. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.