Director, Regulatory Affairs Data Standards and Governance

AbbVie; Thatcham; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Long-term incentive programs

Job summary

AbbVie seeks an experienced leader to drive data standards and governance for regulatory submissions. The role collaborates across RIM, EPMD, and cross-functional teams to ensure data quality, interoperability, and compliance with ISO IDMP standards globally.

The position involves leading governance processes, engaging with regulatory authorities, and advancing enterprise data catalog initiatives to support lifecycle data across COSMOS and related systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences or related field.
• 6–8 years in regulatory affairs or related area.
• Knowledge of ISO IDMP requirements and external standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Data Governance Office initiatives.
• Define and implement enterprise data standards for regulatory submissions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data quality and interoperability.

Skills

Regulatory data governance

Data standards

ISO IDMP

RIM knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in life sciences

Tools

COSMOS system

Ontology services

Job description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

The Director, Regulatory Affairs Data Standards and Governance is responsible for driving awareness and implementation of data standards and associated best practices in systems to support Regulatory Requirements for data submissions and to enable Regulatory data to connect with data sourced from other functions including R&D Development, Supply Chain, Operations and Quality Assurance. This role has functional responsibilities within RIM, in addition to performing a key role within the cross-functional Enterprise Product Master Data (EPMD) Data Office initiative.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates leadership within the Product Data Governance Office, building and executing lean and effective Data Governance processes.
• Support the Product Data Office initiative to establish enterprise-level data governance, improve data quality and interoperability to resolve key business challenges including Regulatory and Supply Chain data integration and Change Control processes.
• Through Data Office engagement, works with cross-functional colleagues to define and implement consistent processes for data standards implementation across AbbVie. Accomplished by building detailed knowledge of external standards applicable to Regulatory business processes and submissions including:
  • EMA standards (published through the SPOR platform)
  • FDA Data Standards Catalogue
  • World Health Organization (WHO) for ATC Codes and INN
  • International Conference on Harmonization (ICH)
• Builds and uses AbbVie's Data Catalogue to drive clear definitions for critical data elements, supporting data lineage verification and mapping properties across systems for interoperability of Regulatory data across the product lifecycle.
• Demonstrates detailed knowledge of ISO IDMP requirements and how the ISO IDMP standard is being implemented by Health Authorities globally. As an IDMP SME, advocate for AbbVie's interest in industry forums and collaborates with RPI colleagues to share knowledge learned through industry engagement and assess the impact to AbbVie's Regulatory systems and processes.
• Ensure that AbbVie's interests are represented in external industry forums for cloud-based submissions, structured data submissions, eCTD4, structured content authoring and the implementation of Regulatory industry standards. Prepare AbbVie for the implementation of regulatory requirements on data submission topics to ensure sustained compliance with Health Authority requirements.
• Collaborates with EKS (Enterprise Knowledge Services) to build AbbVie's central Ontology services for Regulatory and Enterprise use, incorporating external standards published by organizations including ISO, WHO, ICH and Health Authorities.
• Supports the rollout, implementation and training of analysis tools which aid comparison of AbbVie system dictionary terms and data to enterprise standards maintained in the Ontology to support cross-system and cross-functional data harmonisation, remediation and synonym matching.
• Engages with and communicates on data enrichment and harmonisation projects linked to system interoperability projects thus driving overall awareness.
• Support consistent data entry within COSMOS RIM by monitoring and maintaining system dictionaries and vocabularies in alignment with enterprise standards to support data submissions, FHIR projects and, to prepare AbbVie to meet Regulatory compliance e.g. EU IDMP.
• Work with RIM colleagues to deliver COSMOS system releases that drive further automation, functionality, and data optimization using new technologies. Collaborate with RIM colleagues to define enhancements and improvements to COSMOS and Hubble configuration and processes. Support communications and training rollout to ensure adoption of consistent processes and best practices to drive data quality improvements.
• Update COSMOS system dictionaries and vocabularies to accommodate external standards and define and implement internal, AbbVie standards to support consistent data entry and reporting. Manage and monitor COSMOS dictionaries and vocabularies in alignment with Ontology values and drive automation to reduce the burden and risk of manual data entry.

Qualifications

Required Education: Bachelor's degree in (pharmacy, biology, chemistry, medical technology pharmacology) related life sciences.

Required Experience

• 6 to 8 years in regulatory affairs, R&D or related area.
• Knowledge of ISO IDMP requirements, EU IDMP implementation requirements and external organizations promoting regulatory data standards e.g ISO, WHO, FDA, EMA.
• Experience working in a complex global matrix environment with diverse team members.
• Good communication, both oral and written.

Preferred Experience

• Experience working with electronic regulatory submissions and data standards, prior experience in a regulatory affairs strategy role preferred.
• Experience with large cross-functional master data governance projects.
• Interest in advocacy as an AbbVie representative in industry forums related to the global implementation of IDMP standards, data submissions and ePI and related technology, collaboration with RPI.
• Interest in a business SME role in Regulatory business applications and development, collaborating with BTS functions.

Additional Information

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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