Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Job Details
- Experience
- 18+ years of progressive regulatory affairs experience in pharmaceutical or biotech environments, with 10+ years in senior regulatory leadership roles within sponsor organizations.
Requirements
- Hold a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related scientific discipline, or have equivalent bio-technical experience and expertise.
- Bring 18+ years of progressive regulatory affairs experience in pharmaceutical or biotech environments.
- Have 10+ years in senior regulatory leadership roles within sponsor organizations.
- Demonstrate deep CMC regulatory expertise in small-molecule drug development, including OSD formulation, manufacturing process strategy, CMC section authorship, and post-approval change management.
- Have a track record leading regulatory teams across CMC and clinical regulatory functions.
- Demonstrate successful agency interactions, including pre-submission meetings, formal correspondence, and advisory interactions.
- Have led at least one product to regulatory approval, including NDA, MAA, or equivalent submission leadership.
- Have experience with post-approval activities, including CMC change management, labeling updates, periodic safety and annual reports, and post-approval study commitments.
- Have experience building and scaling regulatory organizations in startup or high-growth environments.
- Have strong working knowledge of ICH guidelines and regulatory requirements across relevant global markets.
- Human health pharmaceutical or biotech experience is preferred; animal health experience is a plus.
- Experience with FDA CVM regulations and the NADA/ANADA veterinary drug approval pathway, EMA, or major Asian regulatory agencies is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own regulatory strategy across active programs, integrating CMC and clinical plans with development milestones and commercial objectives.
- Provide regulatory input to portfolio planning, program prioritization, and business development.
- Develop regulatory intelligence capabilities and communicate regulatory updates and risk assessments to executive leadership and the board.
- Lead CMC regulatory activities, including filing strategy, CMC section authorship and review, change management, and oversight of manufacturing and CDMO partners.
- Lead clinical regulatory activities, including IND strategy and management, protocol review, study report oversight, and integration of clinical data into submissions.
- Own approval submission strategy and execution, coordinating submission-ready packages across CMC, Clinical, and Quality.
- Serve as the primary liaison with regulatory agencies, leading pre-submission meetings, formal submissions, and ongoing communications.
- Manage post-approval obligations, including periodic reports, labeling updates, study commitments, and CMC variation filings.
- Establish regulatory information management, eCTD publishing, submission archiving, and procedural standards.
- Build and lead the regulatory organization and establish governance across CMC regulatory, clinical regulatory, submissions, labeling, and regulatory operations.