Local Supply Chain and Warehousing Lead

About the role

This role is part of the Manufacturing project, a strategic initiative to build UCB’s next-generation biologics manufacturing facility in Georgia, USA. As Local Supply Chain & Warehousing Lead, you will represent Internal Manufacturing throughout the design and delivery of the facility, ensuring that supply chain and warehousing requirements are fully integrated into project decisions from concept through implementation.

Responsibilities

• Represent Internal Manufacturing throughout the project, ensuring supply chain and warehousing requirements are embedded into facility design and project decisions.
• Define user requirements and translate operational, technical, and business needs into practical, compliant, and future-ready solutions.
• Provide subject matter expertise across planning, procurement, warehousing, inventory management, material flows, logistics, and distribution processes.
• Collaborate with manufacturing sites and global stakeholders to gather best practices, operational knowledge, and lessons learned from existing operations.
• Review technical documentation, process designs, layouts, and operational concepts to ensure they support long-term manufacturing performance and business objectives.
• Identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities, while actively influencing project teams to develop robust and sustainable solutions.
• Contribute to the design of efficient and scalable supply chain and warehousing operations that support both current and future manufacturing requirements.
• Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, and innovative practices to help shape future-ready manufacturing capabilities.
• Ensure Quality, GMP, HSE, and compliance requirements are considered and embedded throughout all project phases.
• Promote operational excellence and support project decisions that enable safe, reliable, and efficient manufacturing operations from day one.

Requirements

Mandatory skills:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Life Sciences, Operations Management, or a related field.
• +10 years of relevant experience within biopharmaceutical operations and regulated manufacturing environments.
• +6 years of experience supporting large-scale pharmaceutical or biotechnology projects, facility start-ups, capital projects, or manufacturing transformations.
• Strong expertise in supply chain and warehousing operations, including planning, procurement, inventory management, storage, logistics, and distribution.
• Strong understanding of the systems, processes, and technologies supporting modern supply chain and warehouse operations.
• Able to translate operational requirements into clear business, technical, and project requirements.
• Able to balance strategic thinking with operational detail and navigate complex project environments.
• Excellent communication and technical writing skills.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and solution-oriented, with a strong continuous improvement and innovation mindset.
• Able to work effectively in a rapidly evolving environment with changing priorities and project needs.

Strong advantages:

• Ability to communicate in French.