QC Manager

As Quality Control Manager Techlane, you will balance ramp‑up activities with routine QC operations, while continuously improving efficiency, developing your team, and strengthening laboratory performance. You will combine scientific expertise with people leadership to ensure robust, compliant, and future-ready QC operations in a highly regulated cGMP environment. This role offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact on product quality, patient safety, and the continued growth of our organization, while driving continuous improvement initiatives and mindset.

What can you expect?

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead, coach, and develop QC laboratory associates, including hiring and performance management
• Ensure appropriate training in cGMP, safety, and technical competencies
• Oversee QC testing activities
• Review and approve laboratory data, test methods, and procedures
• Lead and support laboratory investigations (events, deviations, invalid assays)
• Ensure maintenance, calibration, and qualification of laboratory equipment
• Drive test method verification, qualification, validation, and transfer activities
• Act as a subject matter expert in troubleshooting complex laboratory issues
• Collaborate closely with Quality Assurance, Manufacturing, Engineering, MSAT, and Maintenance
• Manage departmental resources, budgets, and staffing plans
• Contribute to global QC laboratory strategies aligned with compliance and business objectives
• Drive continuous improvement and lead improvement projects.

Who are we looking for?

Education

• Bachelor’s degree (minimum) in a scientific or technical field, such as Life Sciences, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or a related discipline.

Experience

• 8-10 years of relevant experience in a regulated pharmaceutical, biotech, or cell therapy environment
• 5+ years of proven people leadership experience
• Experience in aseptic manufacturing is strongly preferred
• Hands-on experience with quality systems and regulatory requirements
• Familiarity with Eudralex, ICH and 21 CFR.

Languages

• Fluent in Dutch and English

Strengths

• Strong leadership and people management skills
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication abilities
• Highly organized, proactive, and solution-oriented
• Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable making critical decisions with limited information

Expertise

• EU/FDA guidance for cell-based products and cGMP regulations
• Chemical, biochemical, and microbiological concepts
• Aseptic processing in ISO 5 cleanrooms and biosafety cabinets
• Process excellence tools and continuous improvement methodologies

What do we offer you? 

• A meaningful job with a good work-life balance.
• A supportive and innovative work environment. We value and encourage learning and personal development.
• The opportunity to work with people from all over the world.
• A contract of indefinite duration and an attractive salary package complemented by many fringe benefits, such as additional statutory vacations, a company car, meal vouchers, group and hospitalization insurance, double vacation pay, an end-of-year and performance bonus.
• Many fun and informal events.

About Legend Biotech

Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company dedicated to developing, manufacturing, and commercializing innovative and life-saving cell therapies for the treatment of chronic and life-threatening diseases, such as cancer.

The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey. Legend Biotech now employs over 2,400 people across six global manufacturing sites. Two of these sites are in Ghent: Obelisc (Technology Park Zwijnaarde) and Tech Lane (Eilandje Zwijnaarde).

In Ghent, Legend Biotech focuses on the production of advanced CAR-T cell therapies for the treatment of multiple myeloma, in close collaboration with Johnson & Johnson.