Director, Regulatory Program Management

Socket.dev; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 203,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Summit Therapeutics Inc. in Miami, FL, seeks a Director of Regulatory Program Management to lead strategic regulatory filings and ensure timely submissions across the product portfolio.

This role drives alignment across Regulatory Affairs, Medical Writing, and Program Leadership to deliver executable plans and governance as the organization scales. The Director partners with executive leadership, mentors Program Managers, and champions continuous improvement of regulatory program management

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years in regulatory project management within pharma
• Experience leading global, cross-functional regulatory programs
• Solid tumor oncology experience required
• Strong communication with executive leadership

Responsibilities

• Translate regulatory strategy into integrated execution plans
• Lead complex regulatory programs across regions and products
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and governance for filings
• Provide senior leadership with timely status, risks, and decisions
• Mentor and develop Program Managers to strengthen capability

Skills

Regulatory leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in science

MS or MBA

PhD/PharmD/DVM with relevant experience

Tools

MS Office

Project

Smartsheet

Job description

About Summit:

Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life, increasing potential duration of life, and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit, we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission, and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summit's core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people. Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.

Summit's team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit's clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

• HARMONi: Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.
• HARMONi-3: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
• HARMONi-7: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.

Colorectal Cancer (CRC)

• HARMONi-GI3: Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.

Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and has additional offices in California, New Jersey, the UK, and Ireland.

Overview

The Director, Regulatory Program Management (RPM), provides strategic and operational leadership for high-priority, complex regulatory filings and submissions across the product portfolio. This role drives alignment across Research, Development, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, and execution teams to ensure regulatory objectives are delivered with clarity, rigor, and accountability.

The Director partners closely with Regulatory Affairs, Medical Writing, Program Leadership, and cross-functional development teams to translate portfolio and regulatory strategies into executable plans. The role serves as a key contact for executive leadership and supports disciplined governance and strengthens the Program Management function as the organization scales.

In addition, this leader contributes to developing the operating model for regulatory project management, advances portfolio-level visibility, and builds organizational capability to support complex submissions, health-authority interactions, and other critical regulatory initiatives. This position reports to the VP or Sr. Dir, Program Management and may have people leadership responsibilities.

Role and Responsibilities

• Partners with Regulatory Affairs leadership and senior stakeholders to translate regulatory strategy and portfolio priorities into integrated execution plans.
• Leads planning and execution of complex, high-visibility regulatory programs across functions, regions, indications, and products.
• Chairs efficient, action-oriented team meetings to coordinate operations, decisions, and communications.
• Integrates cross-functional workstreams across Research, Development, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, Medical Writing as appropriate.
• Defines and oversees major milestones, critical paths, decision points, objectives, and inflection points across regulatory programs.
• Leads scenario planning and decision frameworks to support timely executive decision-making.
• Works with SMEs to develop timelines for key RA deliverables to support MAA/BLA, HA interactions, and regulatory filings and ensures deliverables are on track.
• Identifies, manages, and communicates program risks, opportunities, mitigation strategies, and required interventions.
• Provides senior leadership with timely, accurate, and actionable visibility into program status, risks, decisions, and priorities. Present clear insights, recommendations, and program updates to C-suite and senior leadership audiences.
• Ensures consistent application of program management standards, dashboards, governance models, and integrated regulatory filing timelines aligned with enterprise goals.
• Supports continuous improvement of regulatory program management processes, tools, and operating models.
• Leads strategic initiatives to mature the Program Management function as the company grows.
• Mentors and develops Program Managers and strengthen organizational capability.

Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum 12 years of relevant regulatory project management/scientific experience within the pharmaceutical industry; OR a MS or MBA and minimal 10 years of relevant experience; OR a PhD in a scientific field or a PharmD, or DVM with 6+ years of relevant experience
• Prior solid tumor oncology experience required
• Significant experience leading complex, global, cross-functional regulatory programs.
• Demonstrated experience with major regulatory submissions and health-authority interactions.
• Experience operating effectively with senior and executive-level stakeholders and leading through influence in highly matrixed organizations.
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical development and the regulatory submission lifecycle.
• Exceptional project-management, communication, facilitation, and organizational capabilities.
• Strong proficiency in program management and planning tools (e.g., MS Office, Project, Smartsheet)
• Willing to travel for key meetings.

This is the pay for this position

Pay Transparency

$203,000-$253,000 USD

Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.

Summit does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact Summit's Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail] to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to Summit.

Summit Therapeutics Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in creating and maintaining diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.