Principal Regulatory Affairs Professional

ThermoFisher Scientific; Colombia; Remote; COP 180,000,000 - 240,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific in Colombia is seeking a Principal Regulatory Affairs Specialist to lead regulatory strategy across multiple countries and projects. You will provide strategic intelligence and guidance supporting product development from preclinical stages through registration and optimization, serving as a liaison with clients to market these services.

Responsibilities include senior review of documents, regulatory strategy advice, project management, mentoring junior staff, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic/vocational qualification.
• 8+ years of experience in regulatory affairs or related field.

Responsibilities

• Provides senior review of regulatory documents and submissions to ensure high quality standards.
• Acts as subject matter expert providing regulatory strategy advice to clients on projects of moderate complexity.
• Participates in project management activities to support regulatory services and liaising with clients to market these services.
• Provides leadership and guidance to junior team members to support understanding of regulations, risk assessment, and deliverables.
• May provide input on performance reviews to management.
• Ensures adherence to budgets, timelines, and scope of work.
• Ensures compliance with SOPs, WPDs and global/regional guidelines.
• Contributes to business development activities including budgeting/forecasting.

Skills

Regulatory affairs leadership

Regulatory strategy advice

Project management

Attention to detail

English proficiency

Team collaboration

Negotiation skills

Budgeting & forecasting

Medical terminology

Independent judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Join Us as a Principal Regulatory Affairs Specialist – Make an Impact at the Forefront of Innovation

We have successfully supported the top 50 pharmaceutical companies and more than 750 biotechs, spanning 2,700 clinical trials across 100+ countries in the last 5 years.

As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to serve as the lead over several countries/projects in providing innovative solutions, including regulatory expertise and client interface. As a Clinical Trial Regulatory Affairs Senior Specialist, you'll provide strategic regulatory intelligence and guidance supporting product development from preclinical stages through registration and product optimization. You will provide strategic, expedient, and efficient preparation of client deliverables that meet current local, regional, and ICH regulatory and technical requirements. Additionally, you will act as a liaison with internal and external clients in the provision and marketing of these services.

What You’ll Do:

• Provides senior review of regulatory documents and submissions created within or outside of the company in order to ensure high quality standards that meet or exceed client expectations, local and regional requirements.
• Acts as subject matter expert in providing regulatory strategy advice to internal and external clients on projects of moderate complexity. Provides internal clients with up-to-date legislation and guidance as it becomes available.
• Participates in project management activities to support the provision of regulatory services, and acts as liaison with internal and external clients in the provision of marketing these services.
• Provides matrix/project leadership, training and guidance to junior team members to support understanding of regulations, impact on study, assessment of risk, etc., and to achieve a specific goal and/or project deliverables.
• May provide input on peformance reviews to management.
• Ensures adherence to project budgets, time schedules, and scope of work.
• Ensures compliance with relevant organizational and regulatory SOPs and WPDs.
• Contributes to business development activities, including project budgeting/forecasting.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8+ years)

In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent English language (written and oral) communication skills as well as local language where applicable
• Great attention to detail and quality as well as excellent editorial/proofreading skills
• Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively in a team environment and act as a liaison with other departments
• Strong computer skills including the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point; capable of learning new technologies
• Solid organizational, time management, and planning skills to create and follow timelines, conduct long-range planning, adapt to changing priorities and handle multiple projects
• Strong negotiation skills
• Capable of working independently and exercising independent judgment to assess sponsor regulatory needs and work with project team members to producing compliant deliverables
• Strong understanding of global/regional/national country requirements/regulatory affairs procedures for clinical trial authorization, licensing, lifecycle management; expert knowledge of ICH and other
• global regulatory guidelines; good understanding of a regulatory speciality areas, such as preclinical, clinical, CMC, publishing, etc.
• Strong understanding of medical terminology, statistical concepts, and guidelines
• Excellent analytical, investigative and problem-solving skills
• Solid understanding of budgeting and forecasting

Working Conditions and Environment:

• Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
• Occasional drives to site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.