New Product Planning Team Lead

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a New Product Planning Team Lead – Immunology who is strategic, collaborative, and insight‑driven to join us in our New Product Planning (NPP) team, ideally based at our HQ in Brussels.  We can also consider, Slough, UK (Windlesham, Surrey 2027), or Boston, US.

About the role

New Product Planning (NPP) is the early commercial strategy function that brings patient, physician, payer, regulatory, competitive, and market perspectives into pipeline and development decisions.

As an NPP Team Lead, you will play a critical role in shaping asset strategy to maximize long-term value, differentiation, and growth. Operating at the interface with Patient Evidence, you will help deliver de-risked Immunology assets with strong potential to generate value for patients, society, and UCB.

Who you’ll work with

You will act as the early commercial strategy partner to Candidate teams (ie. teams accountable for assets under Patient Solutions leadership) ensuring early development choices are informed by future market opportunities, stakeholder needs, competitive dynamics, and scenario-based trade-offs.

You will therefore collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders across research, clinical, CMC, access & price, medical, regulatory and insights.

You will report to the Head of New Product Planning and lead a team of NPP Leads, fostering a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative environment.

What you’ll do

• You will define the key drivers of success for future assets and lead resolution of critical commercial and stakeholder questions
• Shape asset maximization strategies, including indication selection and sequencing and long-term value creation scenarios

• Translate patient, physician, payer, regulatory, and competitive insights into indication strategy, Target Product Profiles, business cases, and proof-of-concept commercial success criteria
• You will identify early evidence needs and key gaps to strengthen development readiness and progression
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of NPP Leads, building capability and a high-performing team culture

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

• Advanced degree in life sciences, business, or a related field

• Significant (10+ years) global experience in evaluating early pipeline assets and shaping early commercial strategy: experience in New Product Planning or related strategic roles, with a strong track record of linking development choices to future commercial value
• Ability to understand biology and mechanisms of action and connect to potential for patient value creation
• Ability to shape strategy using insights, scenario planning, and long-term value focus
• Strong influencing, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• You communicate clearly and confidently, tailoring insights and recommendations to audiences including senior decision-makers
• You lead with authenticity, integrity, respect, and have strong relationship-building capability
• You demonstrate curiosity, learning agility, and a forward-looking mindset
• You build an inclusive and open team culture where diverse perspectives are encouraged and valued
• Proven people leadership with the ability to coach, develop, and inspire high-performing teams

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 EMEA-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.