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Procurement Specialist roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, which permanently ties your status to the employer rather than a temporary visa cycle. Supply chain employers across manufacturing, healthcare, and government contracting regularly file PERM for sourcing and contracts professionals. Finding employers with active sponsorship history is the first step.
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We are looking for a Global Procurement Category Lead - Market Insights & Patient Services who is strategic, value‑driven and highly collaborative to join our Global Procurement department, based in Brussels, Belgium or Atlanta, Georgia.
About the Role
As Global Procurement Category Lead - Market Insights & Patient Services, you will lead global procurement strategy across Research, Data Acquisition, Medical & Patient Services. You will unify procurement approaches across regions, build strategic supplier partnerships, and ensure sourcing strategies support both business objectives and scientific priorities.
In this highly visible leadership role, you will help shape the future of data, research, and patient services procurement by driving value creation, strengthening supplier performance, enhancing compliance, and supporting innovation across the enterprise. You will lead global category teams and work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure procurement is recognized as a strategic business partner.
Who You’ll Work With
You will report to the Global Head of Marketing, Selling & Impact Procurement and collaborate closely with senior leaders across Insights, Medical Affairs, Patient Services, Market Access, Legal, Compliance, Information Security, and Finance. You will also lead and develop procurement teams across multiple regions while managing relationships with strategic suppliers and external partners.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and execute global category strategies across research procurement, data acquisition, and medical and patient services procurement.
- Lead and develop global category teams, ensuring alignment to common standards, governance, and strategic priorities.
- Build and manage strategic relationships with research agencies, data providers, and patient services vendors.
- Negotiate and oversee complex commercial agreements, including data licensing, research services, and patient support contracts.
- Drive value creation through supplier optimization, commercial innovation, and improved return on research and data investments.
- Partner with business stakeholders to align sourcing strategies with scientific, medical, and commercial priorities.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy, healthcare regulations, and third‑party risk management requirements.
- Shape procurement approaches related to digital, data, and AI‑enabled solutions while supporting responsible innovation.
- Embed sustainability, supplier diversity, and ESG principles into procurement strategies and supplier selection processes.
Interested? For this role we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred in business, life sciences, or a related field.
- Significant procurement leadership experience across market research, data licensing, medical services, or patient services categories.
- Strong experience leading global teams and influencing senior stakeholders within complex matrix organizations.
- Knowledge of data privacy regulations, healthcare compliance frameworks, and third‑party risk management.
- Strong commercial, negotiation, and supplier relationship management capabilities.
- Digital and data fluency, with experience in analytics, AI governance, or data‑driven decision‑making.
This positions reasonably anticipated base salary range is $172,500-230,000. The actual salary offered will take into account related knowledge, skills, experience and location among other factors and may fall outside the expected range.
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 explicitly 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 federal, state, or local law. UCB invites you to voluntarily self-identify during the application process. Provision of self-identification information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your application for employment, your employment with UCB, or otherwise subject you to any adverse treatment. Any information you provide will be considered confidential and will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders, and regulations.
Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on US-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.
Make your mark for patients
We are looking for a Global Procurement Category Lead - Market Insights & Patient Services who is strategic, value‑driven and highly collaborative to join our Global Procurement department, based in Brussels, Belgium or Atlanta, Georgia.
About the Role
As Global Procurement Category Lead - Market Insights & Patient Services, you will lead global procurement strategy across Research, Data Acquisition, Medical & Patient Services. You will unify procurement approaches across regions, build strategic supplier partnerships, and ensure sourcing strategies support both business objectives and scientific priorities.
In this highly visible leadership role, you will help shape the future of data, research, and patient services procurement by driving value creation, strengthening supplier performance, enhancing compliance, and supporting innovation across the enterprise. You will lead global category teams and work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure procurement is recognized as a strategic business partner.
Who You’ll Work With
You will report to the Global Head of Marketing, Selling & Impact Procurement and collaborate closely with senior leaders across Insights, Medical Affairs, Patient Services, Market Access, Legal, Compliance, Information Security, and Finance. You will also lead and develop procurement teams across multiple regions while managing relationships with strategic suppliers and external partners.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and execute global category strategies across research procurement, data acquisition, and medical and patient services procurement.
- Lead and develop global category teams, ensuring alignment to common standards, governance, and strategic priorities.
- Build and manage strategic relationships with research agencies, data providers, and patient services vendors.
- Negotiate and oversee complex commercial agreements, including data licensing, research services, and patient support contracts.
- Drive value creation through supplier optimization, commercial innovation, and improved return on research and data investments.
- Partner with business stakeholders to align sourcing strategies with scientific, medical, and commercial priorities.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy, healthcare regulations, and third‑party risk management requirements.
- Shape procurement approaches related to digital, data, and AI‑enabled solutions while supporting responsible innovation.
- Embed sustainability, supplier diversity, and ESG principles into procurement strategies and supplier selection processes.
Interested? For this role we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred in business, life sciences, or a related field.
- Significant procurement leadership experience across market research, data licensing, medical services, or patient services categories.
- Strong experience leading global teams and influencing senior stakeholders within complex matrix organizations.
- Knowledge of data privacy regulations, healthcare compliance frameworks, and third‑party risk management.
- Strong commercial, negotiation, and supplier relationship management capabilities.
- Digital and data fluency, with experience in analytics, AI governance, or data‑driven decision‑making.
This positions reasonably anticipated base salary range is $172,500-230,000. The actual salary offered will take into account related knowledge, skills, experience and location among other factors and may fall outside the expected range.
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 explicitly 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 federal, state, or local law. UCB invites you to voluntarily self-identify during the application process. Provision of self-identification information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your application for employment, your employment with UCB, or otherwise subject you to any adverse treatment. Any information you provide will be considered confidential and will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders, and regulations.
Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on US-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Procurement Specialist
Document your specialty occupation credentials early
Gather degree transcripts, professional certifications like CPSM or CPPB, and letters confirming your role involved strategic sourcing or contract negotiation. USCIS reviewers look for evidence your procurement work required specialized knowledge, not general purchasing tasks.
Target industries with repeat PERM filing history
Defense contractors, hospital systems, and large manufacturers file PERM for Procurement Specialists far more consistently than retail or small businesses. Cross-reference DOL PERM disclosure data to identify which industries have sponsored this specific SOC code in recent fiscal years.
Search verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Filter by Procurement Specialist roles with green card sponsorship history on Migrate Mate to surface employers who have already navigated PERM for this job category, cutting out companies that lack institutional knowledge of the process.
Verify the prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up your metro area's prevailing wage for your SOC code. Your offered salary must meet or exceed the certified wage level, or the PERM application fails regardless of employer intent.
Negotiate PERM filing into your offer timeline
Ask prospective employers to begin the PERM recruitment process within 90 days of your start date. Delays push back your priority date and extend the path to a green card, particularly for EB-3 applicants from high-backlog countries.
Understand how O*NET defines your role for PERM
PERM job descriptions must align with the O*NET occupation profile for Procurement Specialists. If your duties span categories like Purchasing Agents and Buyers, the employer's attorney should select the classification that best matches your actual daily responsibilities to avoid PERM audits.
Green Card Procurement Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Procurement Specialist role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3?
Most Procurement Specialist positions qualify under EB-3 as skilled workers or professionals requiring a bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, or a related field. EB-2 applies if the role requires an advanced degree or you hold equivalent credentials and the employer can document that the position genuinely demands graduate-level expertise, which is less common in standard procurement titles but more realistic for senior sourcing managers or contract strategists.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
Unlike H-1B visa, the PERM process has no annual lottery and directly targets permanent residency rather than a temporary work authorization period. The trade-off is timeline: PERM labor certification alone takes six to twelve months before the I-140 petition even begins, whereas H-1B authorization can start within months. For Procurement Specialists from most countries, the EB-3 backlog is minimal, making the overall green card timeline faster than it sounds once PERM is certified.
How can I find Procurement Specialist jobs with active green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you filter specifically for Procurement Specialist roles where employers have documented green card sponsorship history, so you're not cold-applying to companies that have never filed PERM. This is more efficient than broad job searches because PERM filings are public DOL records, and Migrate Mate surfaces that data directly in the job search interface.
What does the DOL recruitment period mean for my job search timeline?
Before filing PERM, your employer must complete a mandatory DOL-supervised recruitment period, typically 30 to 60 days, posting the role and documenting that no qualified U.S. workers applied. This happens before your I-140 is filed, so from a practical standpoint, you should start talking to employers about sponsorship well before you need the green card in hand. Delays in starting recruitment directly delay your priority date.
Can I switch procurement employers after my I-140 is approved?
Once your I-140 is approved and your priority date is current, you may be able to port your green card petition to a new employer in a same or similar occupational classification under AC21 portability rules, as long as your I-485 has been pending for at least 180 days. Procurement and supply chain roles generally fall within the same SOC groupings, but confirm the job duties overlap closely enough before making any employer change.