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Help us transform patients' lives.

At UCB, we put our heart, soul, and skills into making a difference for people living with severe disease. Working together to push the boundaries, we blend the best of our talents to unlock innovation.  Will you join us in our pioneering adventure?

To strengthen our Global Manufacturing Procurement team, we are looking for a talented individual to fill the position of: 

Technical Buyer

About our team

At Global Procurement we have embarked into a transformational journey aimed to leverage our function to generate incremental value for UCB.  Our purpose is to systematically connect the needs of our business stakeholders to innovative solution coming from the market and the suppliers.
Our team is primarily focused on upstream procurement, business partnering, market analysis, demand management, negotiation, contract management and supplier relationship management.
Our technical investments area manages and supports all capital investments and operational expenses related with global Manufacturing and Services units. The type of projects we get involved with span from major green field projects, such as the construction of state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, machinery and equipment, real state, facilities management, maintenance and utilities. UCB has entered a significant phase of expansion of the internal manufacturing capacity and its planned to continue to grow in the long term. In this context, there will be unique opportunities for personal development with high levels of business exposure and impact.   

To this extent we are looking to fill the position of Technical Buyer to be based in Bulle, Switzerland. 

You like to work in an environment where you can:

• Work independently or as a part of a team to manage projects and ensure their successful deployment across the organization.


• Build solid relationship and trust with your colleagues, business stakeholders and the suppliers in your portfolio.


• Join a team that continues to grow and aim for high-performance with an extended value proposition.


• Focus yourselves on added value activities and benefit from all the backstage floor: tools for new data mining, analysts to help you building your strategy and credibility with your stakeholders.


• Develop yourself - Next to our terms of employment and benefits, we genuinely believe in the personal development of our team and invest considerable resources to provide on-going training that builds and extends professional, technical and management skills in all areas.

You will contribute by: 

• Managing a diversity of sourcing projects in support of our expansion plan and/or the lifecycle management of existing contracts. These include work in new RFQs, projects around sustainability and risk mitigation, supplier network optimizations, benchmarking, market landscape and competitive position, supplier due diligence and compliance. 


• Acting as the single point of contact for the local site and take ownership of related projects.


• Building solid relationships with the extended stakeholder eco-system to fully understand the business and the technical requirements.


• Developing specific expertise in some of the categories with the aim to provide holistic approaches across the spend areas.


• Aligning and providing strategic guidance to stakeholders in the areas of expertise.


• Liaising with other colleagues within Procurement such as the centers of expertise for procurement excellence (analytics, sustainability, risk management, systems and digitalization, etc.).


• Providing the business with the market trends, the competitive landscape and the dynamics around the supply markets enabling the development of sound procurement strategies and execution plans.


• Assessing opportunities and implementation of projects in supplier consolidation, material standardization, improvement of transactional costs, savings initiatives, risk mitigation, etc.  


• Managing external partner’s relationships.


• Establishing business agreements and their lifecycle management.

For this position we will be looking for someone with the following expertise: 

• Recent graduate with an engineering academic background (preferred) 


• Ability to develop the business acumen and enthusiast about developing into a technical commercial role


• Excellent analytical skills, dynamic and proactive


• Good interpersonal relationships, clear communication and resilience


• Mindset and behaviours aligned to our values where compliance, reputation and high ethical standards are core


• Great communication skills - ability to think creatively, engage in effective communication and promote change with internal stakeholders and suppliers 


• Resilient and able to handle a diversified number of projects


• Fluent in French and English

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.

About us.

UCB- Inspired by Patients. Driven by Science. Everything we do starts with a simple question: “How will this create value for people living with severe diseases?” By putting patients at the heart of what we do, our approach – from discovery to development to delivery – is continuously transformed and designed around patient needs and their journey.

With a team of approximately 7,500 employees and operations in more than 40 countries, we are a global biopharmaceutical company investing more than a quarter of our revenue in cutting-edge scientific research. We are focused on addressing chronic, neurological, immunological, and bone diseases.

Curious to know more? Please visit our website www.ucb.com.

UCB and its subsidiaries encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.