Thought Leader Liaison - Midwest

Overview

Make your mark for patients

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.

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.

• 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%.

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

* This position's reasonably anticipated base salary range is $164,000 - $215,000 annually. The actual salary offered will take into account internal equity and may also vary depending on the candidate's geographic region,…