QC Process & External Partner Manager

Make your mark for patients

To strengthen our Internal Manufacturing team, we are looking for a high caliber, self-motivated, Process & External Partner Managerbased in Braine l’Alleud, Belgium

At UCB everything we do starts with a simple question: “How will this make a difference to the lives of people living with severe diseases?” We do that by connecting our ground-breaking science with patients and their families around the world living with the physical and social burdens of autoimmune and neurological disorders. Those connections offer new perspectives, drive innovation, and offer the hope of a new generation of therapies that will help improve lives on a global scale.

You like to work in an environmentwhere you can:

Cover five main roles in a transversal approach across Braine QC Labs organization:

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  External laboratories partners manager: Act as CLO manager to lead the operational management of UCB’s selected local CLO, Monitor CLO’s performance and capacities and implement a long-range plan in coordination with internal laboratories. Drive CLO risk analysis and implement identified mitigation plans

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  QC’s risk facilitator: Act as SME and Owner to ensure compliance, efficiency, improvement of transversal processes in accordance with the business needs. Lead the processes documentation life cycle of identified transversal procedures to ensure compliance and efficiency.

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  Local Process owner: Act as risk facilitator to implement the overall risk management process within QC organization. Lead harmonization of process and practices across QC laboratories. Monitor process effectiveness & performance at QC level. Anticipate and participate to solving of issues and drive process continuous improvement

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  Investigation and root cause analysis champion: Act as RCA champion to support laboratories to conduct major quality investigation.

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  Continuous improvement program coordinator: Act as OE coordinator to develop, implement and improve QC OE business process towards excellence, in alignment with business requirement. Manage, lead and be responsible for multiple assigned QC OE initiatives in full respect of governance, budget and timelines. Develop and maintain a challenging but realistic OE roadmap for QCin collaboration with Heads, taking into considerations priorities, resources and budgets. Ensure performance management is properly executed through KPI, management review meeting and tier meeting.

Interested? For this position you’ll need the following education, experience andskills:

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  Expertise in the pharmaceutical analysis environment
• Experience with external partnership management (CMO, CLO, …)
• Experience in GMP area and contact with health authorities
• Green-belt certification
• Proven transversal project management skills
• Basic financial knowledge
• Ability to lead multi-functional teams, influence others, hold teams accountable, results oriented, effective at networking, able to manage complex project and deliver according to plan.
• Must be able to manage external partners and relationships to influence partners to deliver results that UCB needs
• Ability to identify pro-actively (anticipate) and address potential problems or areas for improvement and act on them in a problem-solving manner;
• Act as a facilitator and coordinator.
• Change management skills.
• Business driven with a view to overall strategy.

Why you should apply

We can offer you an informal and open working environment that does not lock scientists into structure and hierarchy. Freedom to take space to pursue your own ideas and make a difference. Opportunity to gain internal and external visibility through interactions with other UCB teams and with world-renown academic investigators. Opportunity to grow both as a drug hunter and leader through participation in project teams and our career/personal development programs.

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.

If you believe you are the perfect match to join us on our pioneering adventure, then we invite you to apply and tell us more about your profile and motivation.

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 around 8,500 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

Why work for 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 equitable 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.

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UCB and its subsidiaries encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race/colour/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity.