Rdo Ecosystem Lead

**Make your mark for patients**

To strengthen our **RDO Department** we are looking for a talented person to fill the position of**:RDO Ecosystem Lead - Italy.**

**About the role**

The RDO ESL Italy leads the Regional Rare Disease Leads team with the aim to achieve strategic objectives including:

- Establishing long-term partnership with various ecosystem stakeholders of the relevant health ecosystem
- Driving the creation of the patient value brand plan (PVBP) for the RDO portfolio within an Area and all the relevant marketing tactics
- Driving in-field execution excellence with their teams in line with the local PVBP (Plans and strategies)
- Securing and maintaining optimal access to UCB products portfolio
- Achieving sales target and establishing leading market position in the relevant patient population/segments
- Promoting growth, sustainability, and profitability of the products portfolio (franchise)

**What you will do**
- Lead, coach, train and develop the team of Regional Rare Disease Leads, ensuring that individual competencies are at the required level
- Achieve revenue and sales targets, growth of the product portfolio, establishing and expanding the leading market position in defined patient segments
- Contribute to successfully launching new products
- Co-create the national strategic and tactics Patient-Value Brand Plan (PVBP) and supports the team in the gap analysis and development of key cross-functional account plans. Ensure the plans are aligned with the PVBP and implemented on time and successfully
- Utilize external partners (HCP, regulatory and access bodies) to build and develop comprehensive understanding of market insights to drive an optimal launch environment
- Be an active member of the local & EU and Global Assets network to proactively share launch learnings, country insights to help shape and refine Global and EU and local strategies/projects
- Support the European Assets & Brands Strategy Team with broader commercial initiatives including brand forecasting, market share, ATU market planning and OPEX management
- Engage and manage external agencies/vendors to successfully implement initiatives within budget and agreed timelines to support launch
- Actively collaborate with local Safety staff to ensure a pharmacovigilance compliance for those activities that require involvement, guidance and support from LSO and Deputy
- Actively collaborate with Local E&C, Marketing and Medical Team (possiamo prendere spunto da altri annunci che riportano un tema simile)

Key Deliverables:

- Maintain external focus and create value for the company, the patient, the healthcare professional, balancing short-term and long-term goal
- Pro-actively contribute to the cross-functional collaboration of the team
- Be responsible for the annual field operations budget
- Monitor competitors’ activities and maintain competitive intelligence overview
- Develop team motivation by sharing and analyzing of collective and individual results

Key Stakeholders:

- External: Health professionals and pharmacists involved in the management of the rare diseases in scope. As applicable: payers and policy makers
- Internal: Rare Disease Organization Leadership Team, Medical strategy, Marketing, MSLs, Project coordinators and all transversal core functions including but not limited to Market Access, Patient Engagement, Ethics & Compliance, Finance, Supply Chain, Patient Experience, Talent Acquisition, Patient Experience

4 Pillars in Rare:

- Demonstrate great commitment to the Rare Disease patient community and understand the national and regional patient journey, the barriers they face in care, diagnosis and treatment, and co-creates with the community to help them overcome those barriers
- Utilize innovative (incl. digital) methods to identify patients and enable access to high-efficacy and safe treatments earlier
- Maintain a cross-functionally aligned, execution excellence approach to patient access based on continuous account analysis
- Have an in-depth understanding of disease and all relevant clinical data of UCB & competitors and translation into single-patient focus for dedicated referral and targeted treatments

**Interested? For this position you’ll need the following education, experience and skills**
- Fluency in English
- University degree in business administration, pharmacy or natural sciences
- At least 5 years of experience in management a sales team and direct experience in sales. Further roles or experiences in access or marketing would be of advantage
- Recent experience of launching products in rare diseases
- Management experience
- Proficiency in written and verbal communication.
- Strong ability to analyze, plan, develop and execute tactical plans

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.