Value & Access Contracting Partner

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a Value & Access Contracting Partner - GPO & Specialty Pharmacy to join our Market Access team based out of either Atlanta, GA or Raleigh, NC (hybrid 2 days/ week onsite)

About the role

The Value & Access Contracting Partner responsible for leading the end-to-end contracting process for assigned channels and accounts, from contract strategy and initiation through negotiation support, approval alignment, execution, compliance, and ongoing contract lifecycle management. This position provides strategic contracting expertise across GPO and Specialty Pharmacy agreements primarily by drafting and redlining contract language consistent with approved business terms, identifying business impact and risk associated with key provisions, driving timely resolution of high-priority reviews, and ensuring stakeholders and leadership remain informed of critical issues, trade-offs, and decisions.

Who you'll work with

The role partners closely with Market Access Account Management, Contracts & Pricing, and Legal to enable compliant, effective, and business-aligned contract execution.

What you'll do

• Manages the contract development process, including initiation and amendments for timely renewal of assigned account agreements. The responsibility includes drafting language for offers, base agreements, and amendments.
• Ensures contract terms, conditions, and discounts comply with approved proposal business case, term sheets/bids, and guidelines.
• Conducts contract risk assessment analysis of contract terms that could negatively impact the financial profitability and performance of a contract (i.e. tier placement, administration fees, etc.) and provides summary and recommended course of action to internal stakeholders.
• Analyzes and makes decisions regarding complex contracting proposals ensuring validity of proposal in accordance with Pricing Committee Policy and other organizational compliance guidelines.
• Appraises and communicates proactively on contracts progress during the negotiation process to internal stakeholders. Provides periodic reports to all parties concerning current status of contracts.
• Communicates directly with Market Access Leadership, Account Managers and Area Directors to review and align on contract terms.
• Builds customer and stakeholder relationships during the contracting process by ensuring prompt response and follow-up in completion of contract development both internally and externally.
• Management of contract execution process, including filing of contracts (and associated supporting documentation), tracking documentation, and ensuring policies are followed for document retention and destruction within policy guidelines.
• Collaborates regularly with partners from reimbursement and operations teams to address contracting terms, as well as ensure consistency and contract compliance with respect to contract terms and conditions, formulary status, and rebate payments.
• Maintains knowledge of the business models, influence/impact, and decision drivers of U.S. commercial and government payers.
• Assists with internal audit requests.
• Assists with identifying and making recommendations to strengthen the contracting cycle and gain efficiencies, as well as improve terms and conditions in contracts.

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

Required:

• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ Years of experience with contract language and the business impact of terms and conditions changes within contracts
• 5+ Years of experience in contract redlining and management of contracting processes

Preferred:

• 5+ Years of experience in Managed Care contracting is highly preferred
• Experience contracting across multiple US market access channels (e.g., Trade/Distribution, GPO/IDN, Specialty Pharmacy, and/or 340B).
• Prior ownership of contracting redlining and negotiation for a brand launch, major indication expansion, or significant access shift (e.g., formulary wins/losses, channel re-architecture).
• Experience presenting and defending contracting recommendations in pricing/contracting governance forums (e.g., pricing committee) with clear articulation of trade-offs and risk.
• Experience in specialty and/or rare disease market access dynamics strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of contracting operations and financial flows (rebate processing, chargebacks, fees/admin, eligibility, and audit/dispute management) and ability to partner effectively with internal operations teams.
• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MPH, MS) and/or relevant certifications/continuing education in law, contracting, or healthcare economics preferred.

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 explicitly 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 federal, state, or local law. UCB invites you to voluntarily self-identify during the application process. Provision of self-identification information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your application for employment, your employment with UCB, or otherwise subject you to any adverse treatment. Any information you provide will be considered confidential and will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders, and regulations.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on US-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.