HR Automation Capability Lead

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for an HR Employee Experience Enablement Lead who is strategic, collaborative, and outcome-focused to join our Talent (HR) team, based in our Brussels office in Belgium.

Build the future of HR

We’re not looking for someone to optimize the status quo.
We’re looking for someone to reinvent it.

As part of our HR transformation, we are redesigning how HR works – a unique momentum to build a next-generation HR framework – where digitalization, AI and design thinking come together to create a seamless, intelligent, and human-centered HR experience and radically simplify how we operate.

UCB already operates with a mature digital HR ecosystem.
This role focuses on the next level: integrating AI, automation, and intelligent agents to drive step-change impact - not basic system implementation.

What makes this role different

This isn’t a traditional HR or automation role.

You will act as a strategy architect and catalyst for innovation, shaping how technology and people interact across the employee journey.

Think:

• From fragmented processes → to end-to-end journey experiences
• From manual work → to integrated solutions that drive efficiencies and measurable impact
• From digital solutions → to AI and agent enabled HR operating model

This is not a support role – it’s a result role

Your mission

Bring to life the future state of HR experiences

Translate the HR transformation vision into scalable AI and digital enables solutions.
Elevating an already mature digital HR landscape by shaping a clear vision for how human touch, digital, and intelligent automation come together across key moments that matter.

Build and operationalize the AI and automation framework
Establish the frameworks, tools, and ways of working needed to consistently deliver outcomes. Define the skills, roles, and capacity needed to sustain and grow this transformative framework.

Enable speed and scalability
Set up the right operating model, governance, and metrics to balance agility with consistency and long-term impact. A delivery model that fits the UCB culture and ensures speed in line with the transformation journey roadmap.

Connect ecosystems to unlock value
Act as a bridge across HR CoE’s, Digital, IT, People Services and external partners to co-create and accelerate solutions

Drive adoption and momentum
Turn transformation into a movement - engaging stakeholders and embedding new ways of working across the organization

Your playground

You will operate from the Global HQ in Brussels at the intersection of:

HR transformation - Digital innovation & automation - Employee experience design

Operating in a fast-paced transformation environment with clear delivery expectations.

Working with a global network of experts, you’ll have the space to experiment, influence, and scale ideas that matter, understanding and serving local realities.

What you bring

We’re looking for someone who is as comfortable with ambiguity as they are with execution.

• Experience in HR transformation, digital, or automation-driven initiatives (5-8y)
• Strong understanding of digital ecosystems, automation, and emerging technologies
• Proven ability to build frameworks, drive change, and scale solutions globally
• A builder mindset: you don’t wait for clarity - you create it
• Strong stakeholder influencing and storytelling skills
• Fluent in English

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.