Associate Director Global Regulatory Affairs
Our client, a global pharma company, is currently recruiting for an Associate Director Global Regulatory Affairs to join their team on a permanent basis. People management experience is essential for this role. This role offers hybrid working.
Responsibilities:
People Management:
1. Recruit, develop, and retain a diverse and highly capable workforce.
2. Ensure robust individual training plans and timely completion of required training for direct reports.
3. Support and enable talent identification and career development that reflects an end-to-end mindset and demonstrates judgement-based decision making.
4. Actively coach and mentor staff, including providing strategic guidance to staff on regulatory and labelling process questions.
5. Empower staff members to make logical decisions, resolve issues, and execute tasks.
6. Manage workload based on portfolio prioritization and address implications to overall resource management and strategies.
7. Support and encourage a culture of innovation and model inclusivity to ensure diverse voices and ideas are heard and considered.
8. Provide mentorship for the managers in the team and across the site.
Regulatory Delivery:
1. Align regulatory/labelling strategy with molecule team priorities.
2. Actively seek out information on the needs of internal and external customers and monitor US and Canadian regulations.
3. Remove barriers to ensure labelling and regulatory activities are completed accurately, timely, and in compliance with regulatory and quality system requirements.
4. Manage global cross-functional communication and issue escalations to ensure alignment on delivery and execution.
5. Utilize regulatory and process knowledge to drive decision-making.
6. Partner with quality in both process improvements and deviation management.
7. Provide strategic guidance to staff on regulatory process questions.
8. Monitor regulations and the external environment as appropriate.
9. Provide technical, administrative and operational support for regulatory and labelling-related systems.
Requirements:
1. Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in a scientific or health-related field.
2. Previous experience, preferably 5 years in a lead role in the pharmaceutical industry.
3. Must understand regulatory processes and the interdependencies of various tasks that require coordination among cross-functional team members and possibly third parties.
4. Experienced people manager.
5. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively (verbally and written) and to motivate and inspire others.
6. Demonstrated flexibility and strong negotiation skills.
7. Strong self-management and organizational skills; able to manage workload, set personal and team priorities and adjust as needed.
8. Strong problem-solving skills: able to anticipate and recognize systemic problems, diagnose root causes and take corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence.
9. Proven ability to coach and develop others.
Seniority Level
Mid-Senior level
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Function
Science
Industries
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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