QA Supply Chain Officer

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To strengthen our Global Manufacturing Team, based in our HUB in Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium, we are looking to fill the position of (m/f): QA Supply Chain Officer.

As QA Supply Chain Officer, you like to work in an environment where you can:

• Assist the Supply QA Team in establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving, an effective Level of Quality linked to the Supply Chain activities, including Purchasing and Warehouse Activities.
• Evaluate constantly changing cGMP requirements and their impact on UCB activities.
• Adjust the Level of Quality and associated procedures based on changing regulatory requirements, technical and scientific knowledge.
• Monitor and adjust local Supply Chain and Warehousing Operations in order to assure they comply with applicable national and/or international regulations and guidelines, relevant UCB Quality Policies and Level of Quality requirements.
• Continuously assess the Level of Quality of procedures and practices to identify gaps and opportunities for improvements and simplification (strive for quality and operational excellence).
• Support QA and BTO Management to ensure requested Level of Quality within the Supply Chain, Purchasing, Warehousing areas and SAP aspects.
• Pro-actively help operations, identify, develop and implement quality and operation excellence improvements in response to business requirements, technical changes and regulatory requirements in the relevant scope.

You will more precisely contribute by:

• Assisting in drawing up, reviewing and approving the procedures and instructions related to the Supply Chain, Purchasing and Warehousing activities.
• Being one of the QA Representative for those activities and departments on the Braine-L’Alleud site in case of alignment and level of quality related issues.
• Treating alignment and level of quality related issues and follow-up on the related corrective and preventive actions.
• Performing continuous GAP analysis between new expectations and Quality Management System documentation and between UCB documentation and actual practice.
• Ensuring that Braine-L’Alleud suppliers and contract services organizations comply with all regulatory expectations.
• Ensuring the cold chain and controlled temperature process in order to maintain / improve the GDP practice.
• Identifying, managing and communicating to QA and the entire department management the possible issue of non-compliance within the Quality Management System and providing expertise, interpretation and direction in order to create a framework of operational excellence enabling implementation of continuous improvements.
• As SAP user, providing cGMP and QA expertise, interpretation and direction on SAP system enabling implementation of continuous improvement regarding specific domain of knowledge.

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

• Master’s degree (or equivalent by experience).
• At least 5 years of experience in a similar role in the Pharma, Life Science or Health related fields.
• In-depth knowledge of worldwide cGMP regulations pertaining to pharmaceutical products.
• Knowledge of Pharmaceutical Quality System requirements.
• Very good command in French and English (both written and spoken).
• Willing to travel in Europe (post Covid-19, 10%).

Soft skills:

• Excellent interpersonal relationship skills.
• Team player attitude.
• Commitment to quality, reliability and discretion.
• Analytical minded while being rigorous with details.
• Stress resistant, able to make quality/compliance decision in a business environment.

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.

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.