Global Regulatory Lead - Homebased in the UK or Europe

As a Global Regulatory lead you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organisation, powered by healthcare intelligence.

This role serves as a close business partner and facilitator of regulatory activities and is expected to contribute to developing sound regulatory strategies globally. The role will play a critical role across the product life cycle and will be a key advisor and enabler of successful product launches and commercialization. In close collaboration with other functions and the broader regulatory team, this role is responsible for high quality and timely guidance in all areas of the business, from pre-approval activities, to filing, distribution, and post-approval regulatory activities, among others.

Your primary areas of focus are:

• Provide strategic, operational, and tactical regulatory insight on pre-approval and post-approval activities globally
• Help guide the organization on the appropriate filing strategy, and coordinate across disciplines to ensure timely filings
• Oversee regulatory affairs vendors involved in marketing authorization filings and help ensure high quality interactions with regulators
• Working with the rest of the regulatory team, provide hands-on contributions to regulatory filings including INDs, BLAs, and MAAs, and other areas as requested
• Provide regulatory leadership with post-approval activities including application maintenance activities such as drug registration and listing, payment of program user fees
• Monitor, interpret, and communicate changes to the global regulatory landscape as required
• Serve as the regulatory affairs business partner to local commercialization teams
• Partner with medical, legal, quality, PV, and distribution teams to ensure regulatory input is provided in a timely matter to support business decisions
• Serve as the conduit between strategy within the assigned project team and the broader global regulatory and development teams

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Regulatory affairs experience within biopharmaceutical/Pharma/CRO organizations, must have been in global leadership roles with a focus on major regulatory regions such as FDA, EMA, or PMDA
• Prior experience working in rapidly growing pharmaceutical organizations is desirable
• A thorough understanding of the drug development process with expertise in orphan drugs, along with knowledge of the developing landscape of regulations and guidelines, specifically in United States
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate the development of critical regulatory documents involved in the approval of medicines with a focus on the FDA
• Affinity with science and ability to interact with scientists and clinicians
• Experience interacting with regulatory authorities, especially the FDA and EMA
• Ability to speak and interact with a diverse group of individuals on technical and business topics
• Familiarity with current and emerging regulatory legislation, industry trends, and health care business practices globally
• Highly developed organizational skills and project management skills with demonstrated strengths in strategic planning, delegation, resource allocation, and workload prioritization
• A clear communicator who can influence stakeholders effectively, both internally and externally, with outstanding presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Track record of successful interactions with regulatory and health authorities
• You are a connector, building relationships and partnering across the organization to achieve the company goals
• You excel in a fast-paced, results-driven, highly accountable environment
• You are pragmatic, yet creative and innovative and lead while "rolling up your sleeves" to get it done
• You show strong leadership with proven ability to build, motivate and develop a team
• You combine strategic thinking with the ability to execute, both individually and by leading teams (in a matrix environment) to achieve operational excellence in the face of challenging goal

What ICON can offer you:

Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximise savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others

Visit our careers website to read more about the benefits of working at ICON: https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits

At ICON, diversity, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative which helps us better serve our people, patients, customers, and our communities. We're proud of our diverse workforce and the work we’ve done to become a more inclusive organisation. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know through the form below.

https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.