Director - Regulatory Platforms

CSL Plasma Inc.; Thatcham; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CSL Behring in Maidenhead, UK, seeks a Director of Regulatory Platforms to own the strategic roadmap for regulatory technology and lead the relationship with senior leaders across Global Regulatory Affairs and Safety. The role combines regulatory operations with technology execution to maintain audit-ready, validated environments.

Based in Maidenhead with hybrid work (3 days a week), you will partner with senior stakeholders, oversee platform governance, and drive cloud evolution while reducing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Biostatistics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Life Sciences, or a related discipline; an advanced degree is preferred but not required.
• 15-20 years of experience with regulatory organisations, R&D, or life sciences.
• Working knowledge of regulatory operations, submissions and publishing, and the technology that supports them.
• Strong experience in GxP settings, including system validation, inspection readiness, and data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic roadmap for regulatory platforms and translate regulatory strategy into technology.
• Provide leadership and accountability for regulatory platforms supporting Global Regulatory Affairs & Safety, across multiple business areas.
• Serve as primary technical and operational escalation point for the Regulatory organisation; resolve issues quickly and minimise disruption.
• Ensure platforms meet regulatory, data integrity, security, and inspection-readiness requirements in validated environments.
• Oversee vendor-provided technologies and outsourced application management support.
• Drive lifecycle management of platforms, upgrades, cloud evolution, and reduction of technical debt.
• Establish platform governance, documentation standards, and operating processes for sustainability and audit readiness.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Veeva Vault Regulatory systems

Job description

The Director, Regulatory Platforms holds strategic oversight and operational accountability for the technology systems that power CSL's Global Regulatory Affairs and Safety organisation - including Regulatory Information Management, Submissions Management, Submissions Archive, Publishing, Labelling, Regulatory Intelligence, and Collaboration. This is a role that sits at the intersection of regulatory operations and technology execution: understanding not just how these platforms work, but how they need to work for a regulatory organisation to function without friction. Based in Maidenhead, UK (Hybrid, 3 days a week)

Why It Matters

Regulatory technology is invisible when it works and immovable when it doesn't. Submissions have deadlines that don't move for system downtime, and inspectors expect validated, audit-ready environments as a matter of course. This role exists to make sure that reliability is never in question - serving as the primary digital business partner to the Head of Regulatory Operations and Global Regions, and as the escalation point when platforms need to flex, scale, or simply hold steady under pressure.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• You’ll own the strategic roadmap for regulatory platforms and the technology relationship with senior business leaders, translating regulatory strategy into technology that's fit for purpose.
• Provide overall leadership and accountability for regulatory platforms supporting Global Regulatory Affairs & Safety (GRAS), owning the roadmap across multiple business areas.
• Serve as primary technical and operational escalation point for the Regulatory organisation, resolving issues quickly and minimising disruption.
• Ensure platforms meet regulatory, data integrity, security, and inspection-readiness requirements in validated GxP environments.
• Oversee vendor-provided technologies and outsourced application management support.
• Drive lifecycle management of platforms - upgrades, enhancements, cloud evolution, and reduction of technical debt.
• Establish platform governance, documentation standards, and operating processes that ensure long-term sustainability and audit readiness.

Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Biostatistics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Life Sciences, or a related discipline; an advanced degree is preferred but not required.
• 15-20 years of experience working with regulatory organisations, R&D, or the life sciences industry.
• Direct experience with Veeva Vault Regulatory systems.
• Working knowledge of regulatory operations, submissions and publishing, and the technology that supports them.
• Strong experience operating within GxP settings, including system validation, inspection readiness, and data integrity.
• Proven ability to partner with senior leadership to deliver technology solutions.
• PV / safety experience would also be advantageous.
• Approximately 10-15% travel, domestic and occasional international, to support global stakeholders, vendors, and programme needs.

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients' needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives. CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries. To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

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