Legal Operations Partner

Make your mark for patients

At UCB, we work together to create meaningful impact for people living with severe diseases. As a Legal Engineering Operations Partner, you play an essential role in strengthening how our legal teams collaborate, use data, and deliver high‑quality support across the organization. You bring curiosity, care, and a commitment to improving how work gets done.

What you will do                                    

• Project & Process Management: Contribute to a variety of legal operations initiatives, systems implementations, and process improvement projects; coordinate project activities, track progress, and ensure delivery of measurable impact.

• Legal Technology: Identify, implement, and manage legal technology and data-driven solutions that streamline operations, strengthen data foundations, and enhance efficiency (e.g., AI-assistants, front-door solutions, knowledge management and analytics-enabled tools).

• Collaboration: Design, implement, and oversee strategic, data‑enabled initiatives and processes that strengthen cross‑functional collaboration, ensuring shared visibility, aligned priorities, and evidence‑based decision‑making.

• Data Analysis & Management: Collect, structure, validate data to generate and leverage insights across multiple systems (inc. databases and knowledge‑management and -e-billing platforms, CLMs) to ensure high‑quality information flows and inform team strategy and priorities and enable the adoption of data‑driven digital and AI solutions across the function.

• Vendor management: Coordinate with external counsel and service providers, managing relationships and negotiating terms to optimize service quality and cost-effectiveness.

• Training: Design and deliver specific training modules and workshop related to the implementation of digital solutions and enhancements.

Your background

• You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in business administration, legal studies, data science, or a related field.


• You bring at least three to five years of experience in legal operations, data analysis, or related discipline.


• You are comfortable working in a dynamic environment and collaborating with global teams.


• You combine project management skills with the ability to understand processes and use data to guide decisions.


• You have experience creating reports, interpreting data, and turning insights into practical recommendations.


• You have worked with digital workplace tools and have contributed to the design or deployment of technology that supports legal or compliance teams.


• You communicate clearly, build strong partnerships, and enjoy working with teams across different functions.


• You are a thoughtful problem‑solver who brings a proactive and solution‑oriented approach to improving ways of working.

What we offer

At UCB, you join a collaborative community that values your ideas and encourages you to explore new ways of solving problems. You will have opportunities to grow, learn, and contribute to meaningful work that supports our mission and the people we serve.

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 over 9.000 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science. 

Why work with 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 equal 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. 

At UCB, we’ve embraced a hybrid-first approach to work, bringing teams together in local hubs to foster collaborative curiosity. Unless expressly stated in the description or precluded by the nature of the position, roles are hybrid with 40% of your time spent in the office.

UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable laws. 
 
Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on [email protected]. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.