Verified Job
Healthcare
Talent Country Lead - Canada
Healthcare
#9185
Remote / WFH
UCB
Job Description
Make your mark for patients
What you’ll do
1. Local People Strategy & Organizational Design
• As a member of the Country Leadership Team, develops a deep understanding of the business context, strategic priorities, and local ecosystem to proactively shape people and organization decisions that create value for patients.
• Translates UCB’s enterprise Talent strategy into a local Talent priorities roadmap aligned to business reality and the integrated total‑workforce model (Build / Buy / Borrow / Bot).
• Acts as the primary Talent Partner to the General Manager, providing forward‑looking Talent and organizational insights and constructively challenging assumptions to strengthen business outcomes.
• Makes trade‑offs ******** and prioritizes transparently, balancing short‑term business needs with long‑term capability, succession, and organizational health.
2. Leadership & Capability Development
• Acts as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders at all levels, strengthening leadership capability, inclusion, team effectiveness, and accountability.
• Leads country focus‑population workforce and capability planning; drives annual scenario planning and ensures skills readiness aligned to future business needs.
• Identifies succession and talent bench gaps for critical roles and partners with COEs and Talent stakeholders to build sustainable pipelines and continuity.
3. Culture, Change & Transformation
• Serves as a culture, change, and transformation driver, ensuring the consistent cascade of UCB’s PVS culture and the development of a strong, ethical, and compliant local micro‑culture.
• Champions inclusion initiatives and behaviors that uphold the highest ethical and compliance standards.
4. Global‑to‑Local Integration & Country Voice Amplification
• Represents the country’s needs, risks, and insights in global Talent forums, ensuring effective Global‑to‑Local transfer of strategies, policies, and processes.
• Provides guidance to Global Talent Partners supporting populations based in the country, ensuring alignment with local context and requirements.
• Facilitates international mobility and cross‑border talent moves in partnership with Global Mobility and Talent stakeholders.
• Acts as Reward strategy ambassador and principles champion for leaders; ensures fair and consistent application through Reward governance in partnership with Reward and Operations teams.
5. Secure the Foundation (Governance, Compliance & Risk)
• Ensures alignment between local leaders, Talent COEs, Learning, Talent Operations, and other stakeholders on capacity, sequencing, priorities, and trade‑offs to secure a strong Talent foundation.
• Maintains a strong understanding of the local legislative and regulatory environment to assess risks and implications across the employee lifecycle.
• Leads on sensitive, complex, or high‑risk employee relations and organizational risk cases (e.g., leadership counsel, major investigations, restructurings, litigation‑risk matters).
6. Data, Digital & One‑Team Delivery
• Uses workforce and talent data to generate actionable country insights; partners with COEs and Local Talent Operations to improve data quality and accelerate adoption of digital and AI‑enabled Talent processes and employee self‑service.
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.
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.
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.
What you’ll do
1. Local People Strategy & Organizational Design
• As a member of the Country Leadership Team, develops a deep understanding of the business context, strategic priorities, and local ecosystem to proactively shape people and organization decisions that create value for patients.
• Translates UCB’s enterprise Talent strategy into a local Talent priorities roadmap aligned to business reality and the integrated total‑workforce model (Build / Buy / Borrow / Bot).
• Acts as the primary Talent Partner to the General Manager, providing forward‑looking Talent and organizational insights and constructively challenging assumptions to strengthen business outcomes.
• Makes trade‑offs ******** and prioritizes transparently, balancing short‑term business needs with long‑term capability, succession, and organizational health.
2. Leadership & Capability Development
• Acts as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders at all levels, strengthening leadership capability, inclusion, team effectiveness, and accountability.
• Leads country focus‑population workforce and capability planning; drives annual scenario planning and ensures skills readiness aligned to future business needs.
• Identifies succession and talent bench gaps for critical roles and partners with COEs and Talent stakeholders to build sustainable pipelines and continuity.
3. Culture, Change & Transformation
• Serves as a culture, change, and transformation driver, ensuring the consistent cascade of UCB’s PVS culture and the development of a strong, ethical, and compliant local micro‑culture.
• Champions inclusion initiatives and behaviors that uphold the highest ethical and compliance standards.
4. Global‑to‑Local Integration & Country Voice Amplification
• Represents the country’s needs, risks, and insights in global Talent forums, ensuring effective Global‑to‑Local transfer of strategies, policies, and processes.
• Provides guidance to Global Talent Partners supporting populations based in the country, ensuring alignment with local context and requirements.
• Facilitates international mobility and cross‑border talent moves in partnership with Global Mobility and Talent stakeholders.
• Acts as Reward strategy ambassador and principles champion for leaders; ensures fair and consistent application through Reward governance in partnership with Reward and Operations teams.
5. Secure the Foundation (Governance, Compliance & Risk)
• Ensures alignment between local leaders, Talent COEs, Learning, Talent Operations, and other stakeholders on capacity, sequencing, priorities, and trade‑offs to secure a strong Talent foundation.
• Maintains a strong understanding of the local legislative and regulatory environment to assess risks and implications across the employee lifecycle.
• Leads on sensitive, complex, or high‑risk employee relations and organizational risk cases (e.g., leadership counsel, major investigations, restructurings, litigation‑risk matters).
6. Data, Digital & One‑Team Delivery
• Uses workforce and talent data to generate actionable country insights; partners with COEs and Local Talent Operations to improve data quality and accelerate adoption of digital and AI‑enabled Talent processes and employee self‑service.
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.
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.
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.
