Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs

An Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs at Jazz Pharmaceuticals will be a key stakeholder in the company's regulatory activities and initiatives to ensure the quality of the regulatory input into product development and life cycle management. He/she will support Jazz Pharmaceuticals' efforts to obtain worldwide approvals to market our products. The Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs will manage worldwide interactions and negotiations with regulatory agencies and marketing partners in support of investigational studies, product registrations, and commercial products. The Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs will be a key member of project teams and teams responsible for evaluation of product concepts.

Essential Functions

• Develop and implement regulatory strategies to facilitate the progress of programs in all phases of development
• Serve as the Regulatory Affairs representative on project teams or any relevant team; assure the progress of projects by providing direction, solutions and feedback to the teams
• Lead regulatory interactions with health authorities, manage document preparation, coordination rehearsals and minutes
• Manage meetings with marketing partners, and vendors for their products/projects
• Support the company's commercial products
• Review and approve labelling for the company's products
• Review of protocols, Investigator Brochures, IND/IMPDs, reports and all types of regulatory documentation (quality, safety, efficacy and labelling) including CTAs
• Ensure the timely submission of INDs/CTAs/IMPDs, MAAs/NDAs and variations for their products/projects
• Maintain awareness of and communicate changing regulatory agency requirements; provide training and regulatory intelligence to the organization
• Represent the company in external forum
• May manage junior regulatory professional

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Deep and broad knowledge of regulatory affairs; direct experience with pharmaceutical regulatory submissions and product approvals
• Proven track record of effective collaboration with regulatory agencies
• Demonstrated leadership success in management of regulatory activities
• Experience with regulatory agency interactions and preparation of documentation to support interactions
• Possibly leader in agency interactions
• Knowledge of and possibly experience of special consideration opportunities WW
• Knowledge of international (WW) regulatory affairs (demonstrated by above)
• Experience in preparation of Regulatory strategies
• Experience with maintenance of regulatory authorizations in at least one region
• Experience with supporting a project with development activities in at least two regions
• Experience with working on early development projects (FIM)
• Evaluative, analytical and interpretative skills enabling review and synthesis of reports and other documents used in regulatory planning and submissions
• Ability to work with limited supervision, to set priorities to meet timelines and to motivate and influence others
• Excellent verbal and written English and communication skills
• Some travel required

Required/Preferred Education and Licenses

• Bachelors or Masters or advanced degree in a scientific discipline, with a proven track record of increasingly responsible regulatory experience in the pharmaceutical industry

Description of Physical Demands

• Responsibilities may require working outside of "normal" hours, in order to meet business demands.