Associate Regulatory Affairs Director - Respiratory & Immunology

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.

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What you’ll do

Working in the role as an AssociateRegulatory Affairs Director (ARAD), you will lead the end-to-end planning, coordination, and execution of assigned regulatory procedures and submissions. With your knowledge and strong project management skills, you will be a key contributor to the regulatory submission strategy, identifying submission risks and opportunities, while leading complex regulatory applications and managing procedures through approval.

In this role you will have a unique opportunity to work in cross functional teams, with all phases of drug development across geographic regions making sure that the regulatory project delivery and process improvements are in line with business priorities.

Your main accountabilities/responsibilities:

• Lead and/or contribute to the planning, preparation, and delivery of submissions of varying complexity throughout the product’s life cycle from either a global and/or regional perspective.
• Understand the regulatory framework, including regional trends, for various types of applications and procedures for small and large molecules across all regions.
• Provide regulatory expertise on procedural and documentation requirements as defined by Health Authorities for assigned deliverable(s) including submission delivery strategy of all dossiers and all application types per market and/or region and review of documents e.g., response documents, study protocols, Periodic Safety Reports and provide regulatory input.
• Lead multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Support operational and compliance activities for assigned regulatory tasks.
• Provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge sharing within the regulatory skill group.
• Contribute to process improvement.
• Identify regulatory risks and propose mitigations to appropriate member of cross functional teams.
  

Essential for the role

• Relevant University Degree in Science or related field.
• Extensive Regulatory experience (3+ years) within the biopharmaceutical industry, or at a Health Authority, or other proven experience.
• Detailed drug development knowledge.
• Strong Project management skills including tools e.g. MS Project.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. (Telephone, Video, Email)
• Leadership skills, including experience leading multi-disciplinary project teams.
  

Desirable for the role

• Knowledge of the Respiratory & Immunology therapy area.
• Managed first wave Marketing Applications and/or Life Cycle Management submissions.
• Managed sophisticated regulatory results across projects/products.
• Veeva Vault experience.
• Demonstrate a high ability to use digital tools and solutions, and have a broad solid understanding of new technologies e.g., Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
  

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