EMEA Emerging Markets Regulatory Leader

Johnson and Johnson; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 1,312,000 - 2,062,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Director, Head of EM Emerging Markets Regulatory Affairs to lead strategy and execution across Africa, the Middle East, Türkiye, and CIS, including Global Health Equity licenses. You will drive regulatory leadership, budget management, and cross-functional governance in a complex, multi-country landscape.

You will guide senior teams and liaise with health authorities to ensure timely registrations, launches, labeling, and lifecycle activities while advancing

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in science, health, pharmacy, medicine, or another relevant field.
• 15+ years in pharmaceutical industry with Regulatory Affairs experience.
• Experience leading regulatory strategy across multiple countries and lifecycle stages.
• Strong understanding of regional laws, health-authority expectations, and access considerations.
• Experience negotiating with health authorities at senior levels.
• Knowledge of drug development, registration, submissions, labeling, and lifecycle management.
• Experience leveraging automation/AI to improve regulatory efficiency while ensuring compliance.
• Leadership of multicultural, dispersed teams including talent development and succession.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing regulatory organization across regional clusters and country teams with clear accountability and succession plans.
• Set and execute regulatory strategy across development, evidence generation, filings, registrations, launches, labeling, and lifecycle management.
• Enable timely submissions, approvals, launches, and patient access with multinational and country strategies.
• Make informed trade-off decisions across portfolio, resources, compliance and business priorities; escalate material risks with options.
• Advise senior leaders across Commercial, R&D, Medical, Market Access, Safety, and Quality while maintaining regulatory independence.
• Represent Regulatory Affairs in portfolio launch, evidence, supply-network, licensing, due diligence and business development decisions.
• Forecast demand and deploy resources for major filings and lifecycle activities in partnership with leaders; manage approximately USD 10 million in budgets.
• Maintain compliance across submissions, regulatory commitments, registrations, labeling updates, variations, renewals, translations, and other lifecycle obligations.

Skills

Regulatory strategy

Global/regional leadership

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Project management

Risk assessment

Change management

Executive communication

Multicultural leadership

Education

Advanced degree in science/health/pharmacy/medicine

Job description

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Director, Head of EM Emerging Markets Regulatory Affairs to lead strategy and execution across Africa, the Middle East, Türkiye, and CIS, including Global Health Equity licenses. You will drive regulatory leadership, budget management, and cross-functional governance in a complex, multi-country landscape.

You will guide senior teams and liaise with health authorities to ensure timely registrations, launches, labeling, and lifecycle activities while advancing