Biosamples Operations Specialist

UCB; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

UCB in Slough, UK is hiring a Bio Samples Operations Specialist to ensure compliant, efficient bio sample management within the Patient Solutions group.

The role includes HTA Committee administration, coordinating sample requests, maintaining documentation, and ensuring adherence to legal and privacy requirements across UK and EU sites.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Life Sciences or equivalent.
• Well organized with strong computer-system skills.
• Experience with documentation management in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as HTA Committee Administrator for UK Human Tissue management.
• Support bio samples users to maintain accurate inventory and report on acquisition, use, storage, transfer and destruction.
• Coordinate bio samples requests across UCB research sites, ensuring donor consents and ethics compliance.
• Manage shared documentation websites related to bio samples operations.

Education

Graduate degree in Life Sciences

Tools

eQMS

Job description

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a Bio Samples Operations Specialist who is innovative and agile to join us in our Patient Solutions group based in Slough, UK (Windlesham 2027.

About The Role

You will be responsible for ensuring full compliance with local and international regulations governing sample ‑ related operational activities. The role supports Research & Development units across Patient Solutions by enabling compliant, efficient, and reliable bio sample management processes.

Acting as a transversal contributor for bio samples management with responsibilities extending across all UCB sites, especially as HTA/HBS administrator for Human Samples (HBS) management (Human Tissue Authority (HTA) Committee Administrator in the UK).

Who You’ll Work With

Reporting to the Sample Management Regulations & Operations Lead within the Patient Solutions Business Operations team. The position ensures the integrity, traceability, and regulatory alignment of bio sample operations, while partnering closely with scientific, operational, and quality stakeholders across UCB’s global network. Collaborate with key stakeholders (UCB’s legal, ethical, quality, and personal data privacy) aiming to maintain up to date any policies and documentation for HBS use compliance.

What You’ll Do

Act as Human Tissues Authority Committee Administrator within Human Tissue management in the UK.

Support bio samples users to enable accurate inventory in a transversal way: especially with tracking and reporting on acquisition, use, storage, transfer and destruction of biological samples.

Coordinate any bio samples requests, especially HBS, ensuring compliance with any local processes, donor consents and ethical requirements applicable for each UCB research sites (BE-UK).

Manage the shared documentation websites used for bio samples related operations.

Contribute to the administration of HBS related processes and their associated documentation in compliance with the legal requirements (EU and UK), and the data privacy legislation.

Contribute to the compliance with UCB’s legal, ethical, quality and personal data privacy policies for HBS use, liaising with QA department to appropriately capture any deviations/events using the eQMS quality system and ensuring Corrective and Preventive Actions are put in place (CAPA).

Interested? For this role you’ll need the following education, experience and skills

Graduate degree (or equivalent) in Life Sciences.

You are well organized, with extensive computer systems skills. Competence with MS Office software is essential, experience with tracking system databases for biological samples and electronic document management systems is an asset).

You show interest into documentation management and like working in controlled/regulated environments.

You are able to establish and optimize trusted relationships with strategic partners, and you are capable of communicating clear instruction to partners and stakeholders.

You have demonstrable skill for translating strategic goals into tactical deliverables.

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 [e-mail]. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.