McDermott Laboratories Limited
Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.
We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.
Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference, and here's how the Director, Regulatory Strategist role will make an impact:
The Director, Global Regulatory Strategist
the senior level position, recognized as an expert for global regulatory strategy in support of Viatris' innovative and established originator product portfolio.
The purpose of this role is to:
- Provide strategic regulatory guidance using innovative regulatory approaches for assigned projects/products.
- Develop and implement Global regulatory strategies for complex products/projects, integrating inputs from regulatory team and cross functional partners. Strategies should be in alignment with business objectives and key stakeholders.
- Manage the preparation and submission of correspondence and applications to regulatory agencies. Organize, lead or participate in meetings with regulatory agencies, as appropriate. Ensure quality expectations are met for all submissions and Health Authority interactions.
- Direct and/or facilitate indirect communications with Health Authorities (in conjunction with Regulatory local/regional partners) to facilitate product development, prompt review and approval of applications, supplements/variations, and commitments.
- Lead global Regulatory Teams for assigned projects/products.
Key responsibilities for this role include:
- Global Regulatory Strategy – Developing Global/Regional regulatory strategies and implementation plans for complex projects/products including novel, product enhancement, post approval and established products; Ensuring regulatory contributions achieve the objectives in the strategy, meet agreed standards, while optimizing overall project delivery time and probability of a successful outcome.
- Leading the Global Regulatory sub- team and partnering with cross functional project teams as the Regulatory Point of contact for assigned products. Ensuring an aligned regulatory position is reached and communicated for all key issues for assigned projects/products.
- Partnering with clinical, safety and medical, for critical activities supporting product development and maintenance including regulatory input to clinical development programs, PMCs/PMRs, PASS, PAES, risk/benefit assessments, RMPs, PSURs etc.
- Serving as a member of the Product Labelling Team, contributing to the development and update of the Target Product Label and CCDS. Provides strategic regulatory expertise in label negotiations for products assigned during registration and maintenance, including local and regional labels, as appropriate.
- Driving development of key Regulatory contributions and fit for purpose submission packages in collaboration with partner lines. Authoring regulatory contributions such as meeting requests, sections of the dossier, query responses, as applicable, ensuring business needs and quality standards are met and contributions are provided in accordance with agreed timelines.
- Ensuring regulatory plans are monitored, progress is communicated to Senior leadership and any risks (from emerging technical data, changing internal objectives or external impacts) are clearly communicated and mitigated where possible.
- Developing and maintaining constructive working relationships with Health Authority contacts. Organize, lead or participate in meetings with regulatory agencies, as appropriate.
Business and Industry Leadership
Supporting regulatory Due Diligence activities for business development opportunities.
Enhanced understanding of current global and regional evolving regulations and guidelines with the ability to assess the impact of these requirements to products/projects. Using strong experience and examples, where appropriate, to influence the evolving regulatory environment through Health Authority engagement, Country Office partners and trade associations.
Governance and Compliance
Ensuring all regulatory requirements and/or commitments are met for obtaining and maintaining Marketing Authorizations.
Ensuring business compliance and implementation of and adherence to regulatory standards.
Implementing systems, processes and procedures relating to regulatory productivity improvements, ensuring that these facilitate the sharing of information and learnings within regulatory and the broader organization.
The minimum qualifications for this role are: