Make your mark for patients
We are looking for a Head of Asset Learning who is strategic, innovative, and collaborative to join our Talent Acquisition & Learning team, based in our HQ office, in Brussels, Belgium.
About the Role
You will lead a team to drive a globally aligned, locally relevant, and impact-driven asset learning strategy. Acting as a key integrator, you will ensure strong connectivity between asset learning, stakeholder learning, and patient impact priorities. Your focus will be on shaping innovative, digital-first learning solutions, enhancing modular content creation, and fostering cross-functional collaboration across Commercial, Medical, Access, and regional teams.
Who You’ll Work With
You will collaborate with stakeholders across Commercial, Medical, and Access teams, ensuring learning strategies align with business priorities. As part of a global team, you will integrate global and local learning needs, optimizing efficiency and alignment across markets.
What You’ll Do
1. Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering innovation, agility, and collaboration while ensuring asset learning aligns with business priorities and patient impact goals.
2. Oversee global asset learning strategies, ensuring consistency across global, regional, and local levels while enabling flexibility for market-specific adaptations.
3. Own and manage the global asset learning budget, ensuring optimal resource allocation, cost-efficiency, and ROI.
4. Drive digital learning transformation, leveraging AI-driven automation and data insights to enhance accessibility, efficiency, and impact across global learning platforms.
5. Define and lead the global asset learning vision, aligning with enterprise-wide strategic priorities and business outcomes.
6. Serve as a key advisor to asset leadership teams and PSLTs on learning strategy, capability development, and organizational transformation.
7. Streamline content creation and approval processes, implementing scalable solutions to improve learning efficiency while maintaining quality and compliance standards.
8. Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to optimize resource utilization and ensure alignment between asset learning, commercial, and medical learning teams.
9. Drive alignment between asset-specific and enterprise-wide learning strategies, ensuring synergies across Commercial, Medical, Access, and R&D.
10. Establish and lead governance frameworks to ensure consistency, compliance, and quality across all asset learning programs and processes.
11. Establish and lead governance frameworks to ensure consistency, compliance, and quality across all asset learning programs and processes.
12. Embed change management, continuous improvement, and cultural evolution into the asset learning framework to enhance long-term learning impact.
Interested? For this role, we’re looking for the following education, experience, and skills:
13. Proven leadership experience in learning, capability-building, or organizational development within a pharmaceutical or life sciences environment, driving innovation and impact.
14. Strong track record in managing global teams, aligning cross-functional priorities, and navigating complex stakeholder landscapes in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
15. Expertise in digital learning transformation, AI-driven automation, and modular content design, ensuring scalable, flexible, and technology-driven learning solutions.
16. Proven experience of process and technology excellence, driving continuous improvement and operational efficiency through innovative, scalable, and data-driven solutions.
17. Strategic mindset with the ability to manage ambiguity, execute efficiently, and integrate global-to-local learning strategies for business and patient impact.
18. Strong business acumen, excellent communication, and influencing skills to engage stakeholders and drive alignment across functions and geographies.
19. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field, with a strong background in learning, organizational development, or digital learning innovation.
Why you should apply
At UCB, we strive to attract passionate and outstanding talents who thrive on change and are ready to bring real value to patients. Working for us you’ll discover a place where you can grow and express your full potential. We place an emphasis on innovation, collaboration and impact. Through meaningful recognition and a motivating work atmosphere, we aim to provide an optimal experience by caring about and valuing our employees – just as we do for the patients we serve.
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!