Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs, North American Regional Leader

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Regulatory Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:
Regulatory Affairs

Job Category:
Professional

• Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America
• Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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The Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs, North American Regional Leader (NARL) is responsible for North American and global regulatory strategies for select projects spanning the oncology therapeutic area. This role supports the initiatives for the Interventional Oncology group (INTO). The position will focus on a range of novel product solutions to deliver solutions to treat cancers directly into the tumor.

• Establish North American content requirements and timing for global dossier plans including BLA/NDAs, IND/CTAs & supplements.
• Serve as primary point of contact for US FDA.
• Lead the regulatory response team for FDA and Health Canada questions.
• Key contributor to regulatory submission strategy, identifying submission risks and opportunities, while leading regulatory applications and managing procedures through approvals.
• Manage routine maintenance submissions, coordinate NA post-approval commitments, provide input and review submission documents, as well as approves submissions before dispatching to regulatory authorities.
• Contributes to the development of the USPI, lead the development of NA labelling negotiation strategies, and development of supporting documentation for labelling, as well as reviews FDA and Health Canada labelling to ensure consistency with the CCDS and ensure that annotations are complete and correct.
• Develop, execute and maintain submission delivery plans, submission content plans, and proactively provide status updates to designated stakeholders.
• Provide regulatory expertise on procedural and documentation requirements as defined by Health Authorities for assigned deliverable(s).
• Provide strategic regulatory input to key development documents, including clinical protocols, clinical and nonclinical reports and summary documents.
• Collaborate with cross-functional submission delivery teams.
• Participate and coordinate Health Authority interactions by leading regulatory team members and cross-functional team members.
• Ability to flex across different product types (pharma, devices, combo products).
• Intellectual curiosity and ability/flexibility in learning new things and working in novel areas with limited regulatory precedence.
• This role will include an opportunity to flex across different product types (pharma, devices, combo products).

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in scientific or equivalent discipline.
• Bachelor’s degree plus 8+ years relevant experience OR;
• Master’s degree/ PharmD plus 6+ years relevant experience, OR;
• PhD plus 4+ years relevant experience.
• Relevant regulatory experience and…