Head of Belgium Technical Services

仕事内容

Make your mark for patients

About The Role

UCB seeks a visionary leader as a Head of Belgium Technical Services (BeTS) to oversee and manage various department involved in maintenance, metrology, automation, Qualification & Validation, infrastructure, and support services across its Braine campus, Leuven research facility, and Anderlecht headquarters.

Who You’ll Work With

Collaborating closely with executive leadership, you’ll drive organizational transformation by centralizing activities and fostering high-performing teams embracing a culture of high-quality standards, accountability, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

External networking activities, such as representing UCB at ISPE, will also be part of your role.

What You’ll Do

This is a critical leadership position that requires a deep understanding of the biopharmaceutical industry and the ability to ensure the highest standards of compliance, efficiency, and quality across our research, development, and manufacturing activities.

As BeTS Leader, You Will Be Responsible For

• Performing all required activities to keep UCB assets to a targeted performance level, and to integrate any new facility, as well as research, development & manufacturing assets linked to new product launches.
• Defining a clear strategic vision of technical services support to Belgian sites in alignment with its internal clients and suppliers.
• Deploying the strategy ensuring an expected operation performance. You’ll manage our asset life cycle by ensuring the right balance between predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenances, initiating required investments if needed. You make sure that short-, mid- and long-term investments are in line with site master plans and 10 YP, and manage expenditures.
• Setting up internal governance bodies within Be TS (project & risk portfolio, people, and operations), and representing BeTS interests in executive governance bodies (investment committees).
• Overlooking that the right people capabilities are in place, i.e. appropriate workforce and competencies. You also ensure talent retention, development, and well-being of your team members.
• Ensuring compliance to legal and GxP regulations, safety & sustainability (green) rules and aspirations.

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

• A Master’s degree and 15 years of experience in maintenance related activities.
• Technical & efficiency awareness: You should understand utility production, equipment maintenance, periodic verification, qualification & validation, automation, facility services, investment management, continuous improvement, and a performance-oriented approach to enhance equipment availability while prioritizing safety and efficiency.
• Communication : Effectively engaging with various profiles, providing diverse stakeholders with tailored information for decision-making, maintaining frequent communication within a large team, and managing expectations across multiple Business Units (Patient Value Units).
• People Management: You will be fostering a speak-up culture, empowering individuals, adopting a coaching approach, cultivating trust, delegating effectively, aligning team focus with priorities, making crucial decisions, developing individuals, and being responsive and agile in your leadership style.
• Strategic awareness: You’ll be involved in creating a strategy aligned with operational challenges, connecting the team’s strategy with UCB’s overarching strategy, effectively handling organizational changes, devising a detailed implementation plan, overseeing and controlling the plan’s execution, and defining a local strategy for asset management (e.g., aging assets, investments, etc.) within the broader strategy framework.

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.

Learn more about sustainability at UCB and how it is integrated into our business approach.

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.