Study Start Up and Regulatory Affairs Specialist

ERGOMED; Madrid; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Ergomed is seeking a Regulatory Start-Up Specialist to lead and coordinate all regulatory activities ensuring site initiation readiness for multi-country trials. You will ensure compliance with ICH-GCP and country-specific requirements, manage essential documents, and support risk management and strategic input across internal and external stakeholders.

You will contribute to drafting and finalizing regulatory and site-level agreements, translating documents as needed, and maintaining timelines

Qualifications

• Degree in Chemistry or Life Sciences or related field.
• Experience in pharmaceutical or CRO regulatory delivery.
• Good knowledge of ICH GCP and national/regional regulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate study start-up and regulatory milestones within defined scope.
• Make independent decisions on regulatory processes and documentation approaches.
• Handle medium-complexity regulatory environments, including multi-country requirements.
• Lead start-up and regulatory activities for assigned countries or medium projects.
• Draft, negotiate, finalize, and execute site and ancillary agreements within timelines.
• Review labels, patient information sheets, and essential documents for compliance.
• Provide regulatory/SSU strategic input and develop related plans and SOPs.
• Identify and elevate risks; support corrective actions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Regulatory affairs

SSU/Regulatory

ICH GCP

Multi-country delivery

Education

Graduate degree in Chemistry or Life Sciences

Job description

Company Description

Medicine moves forward here. So will you.

Company Description

Medicine moves forward here. So will you. Ergomed is a specialist clinical research organization focused on rare disease and select oncology indications. We focus on the most complex trials, the studies where experience, judgement, and rigorous operational accountability make the biggest difference. We partner with small to midsize biotech companies to move promising therapies through early phase development, so they reach the patients sooner. We choose complex work on purpose. Rare disease and oncology trials carry real operational risk, and our people are experts at reducing it, protecting timelines, data quality and the experience of sites and patients at the same time. It is demanding, meaningful work, and no one here forgets that patients cannot wait. That is why culture matters to us as much as capability. We have built a collaborative, international team where people share ideas, grow their careers and are trusted to take ownership early. With colleagues across North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, we value teamwork, flexibility and a real commitment to work-life balance, because good science comes from people who feel supported. If you want work with purpose, the agility to make an impact and a team that cares about the people behind the work as much as the work itself, we would love to hear from you.

Job Description

The Specialist, Study Start Up and Regulatory Affairs leads and coordinates all activities related to achieving site initiation readiness. The role provides subject matter expertise, ensures regulatory compliance, and serves as a key liaison between internal teams, clients, and external stakeholders.

• Accountable for delivery of assigned study start-up and regulatory milestones within defined scope.
• Make independent decisions within assigned scope regarding regulatory processes and documentation approaches.
• Handles medium-complexity regulatory environments, including multi-country requirements where applicable.
• Leads study start-up and regulatory activities for assigned countries or projects of medium complexity, ensuring delivery in line with timelines, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Leads preparation, review, and quality control of regulatory and study start-up documentation (including submissions, essential documents, and translations) to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with ICH-GCP and country-specific requirements.
• Responsible for drafting, negotiating, finalizing, and executing clinical site agreements, ancillary agreements as well as amendments at country or regional level, in accordance with project requirements and country regulations and within the projected delivery timelines.
• Review all relevant documentation e.g. labels, patient information sheets, diary cards, insurance etc, to ensure compliance with ICH GCP & country specific requirements.
• Contribute towards the preparation and/or review of complex technical/scientific/legal documentation.
• Arrange for and/or review translation of essential documents as required.
• Provide regulatory/SSU strategic input to internal and external customers. Develop the regulatory strategy and the SSU Plan, joint operating procedures and core documents.
• Promptly identify and elevate risk/potential risk to the project team which may jeopardise deliverables; support corrective/preventive actions.
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Chemistry or Life Sciences, Nursing or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Previous experience within pharmaceutical or CRO industry or Regulatory body.
• Good knowledge of ICH GCP and national regulations for territories of competency.
• Good understanding of specific country requirements pertaining to SSU/Regulatory delivery in multiple countries within Europe and/or the Americas.

Additional Information

When you join Ergomed Group, you make a difference by helping to bring safe and effective pharmaceutical treatment to patients around the world. You’ll join a passionate and collaborative team of experts in clinical research, pharmacovigilance, and quality consulting. We are diverse in many ways, yet our values unite us. Our values are how we work, not words on a wall. If they sound like you, you will feel at home here.

• Quality: we hold ourselves to the standard patients deserve.
• Integrity and trust: we do the right thing, especially when it is hard.
• Drive and passion: we care about the outcome, because someone is waiting on it.
• Agility and responsiveness: we move quickly, because patients cannot wait.
• Belonging: everyone is welcome, and every voice counts.
• Collaborative partnerships: we go further by going together.

We look forward to welcoming your application.