What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Regional Regulatory Lead – LCM position at CSL Behring?
Entity: CSL Behring
Job Category: Research Development & Sciences
Job Family: Global & Regional Regulatory Affairs
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Employer Reference: R-263414
Job Description
CSL's R&D organization is accelerating innovation to deliver greater impact for patients. With a project-led structure and a focus on collaboration, we’re building a future-ready team that thrives in dynamic biotech ecosystems. Joining CSL now means being part of an agile team committed to developing therapies that make a meaningful difference worldwide.
Position Description Summary:
Regulatory leaders who leverage regional regulatory experience to actively contribute to an innovative, scientifically sound, global, integrated regulatory vision/strategies for assigned product/s with a patient-centric focus, leveraging regional commercial insights and applying prudent risk-taking to ensure timely delivery of successful regulatory outcomes. Effectively partner with assigned product/s Global Regulatory Affairs Strategy Team (GRAST) GRL plus other regional, labeling and CMC GRAST members to ensure ‘One GRA Voice’, appropriate inputs into risk assessment and decision making. Ensures bi-directional communication with stationed region commercial operations and GRA. With support, engaging with health authority (HA) in stationed country (FDA or EMA), maintaining productive relationship with HA contacts and driving positive regulatory outcomes with respective HA for assigned product/s in conjunction with GRL. Contributes to product health authority interaction with support GRL or Regulatory TA Head. Partner with GRAST members to achieve regulatory deliverables (including leading assigned tasks) while fostering individual accountability, ‘team spirit’, actively contribute and executing on decisions expeditiously resulting in positive regulatory outcomes.
This is a hybrid role, which offers a combination of an onsite and remote work schedule. #LI-hybrid
Main Responsibilities:
With support, accountable for assigned product relationship with a health authority (FDA or EMA), ensuring alignment with product GRL and as needed, support from Head, Regulatory TA if escalation is required. May negotiate on behalf of CSL with health authority to achieve desired regulatory outcome.
Developing regional knowledge regarding health authority requirements, regulatory filing pathway/categories, processes, and ways of working and thus, can provide relevant guidance / assessment to internal stakeholders (e.g., GRAST, GRL & Commercial) on means to address project challenges, leverage regulatory opportunities and advise on risk for developmental, new, and marketed products.
Under the product GRL, supports regional regulatory activities as assigned, inclusive of potential to contribute to core document preparation (e.g., core briefing book, pediatric plans, etc.), product filing preparation activities (investigational, new, and marketed) and health authority engagements. Responsible for Module 1 documentation required for submission and supports response to health authority comments activities with guidance from GRL.
Actively contribute to the GRAST activities, strategy development, document reviews and competitive regulatory intelligence. Ensures on-time execution of regulatory activities at the regional level, achieving positive regulatory outcomes. Partners with GRL to develop internal communications and distributes GRAS communications to regional commercial stakeholders. Actively connects and maintains relationships with GRAST members, including GRAS Regions and Regulatory CMC.
Proactively fosters and promotes effective relationships across Global Regulatory Strategy. Updates and maintains applicable regulatory systems (e.g., Veeva) to ensure tracking and compliance deliverables.
Applies the CSL Leadership Capabilities – Build Bridges, Think Beyond, Unleash Outcomes, Ignite Agility, Inspire the Future and Cultivate Talent – to oneself.
Qualifications & Experience Requirements
Bachelor’s degree (four-year university degree) in pharmacy, biology, chemistry, pharmacology, clinical medicine, or related life science is required. An advanced degree in a related field (MS, PhD, or MD, DVM) or MBA is preferred.
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry, with exposure to regulatory activities/submissions and 3 years working on developmental products. Previous regulatory affairs experience is preferred.
Experience in working in teams with either a direct or matrix manager. With support, assesses preferred option for tough decisions.
Candidates have developing knowledge and understanding of pharmaceutical/biological product development and regulatory requirements for product development and approval in one key region (EU, US, Japan).
Experience working in Regulatory Affairs with agency interaction responsibility with at least one health authority is preferred.
Relevant experience working in a complex and matrix environment is preferred. Ideal candidates will have clinical or device foundation.
Strong ethics and integrity.
Developing ability to think strategically, assesses prudent risks and develop bold, agile, innovative approaches to complex challenges.
Developing communication skills, with capacity to articulate complex concepts in a manner individuals at various levels in the organization can comprehend with support.
Support productive, working relationships within CSL (e.g., R&D and Commercial).
Fluency in English (verbal and written).
About CSL Behring
CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients' needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.
CSL Behring operates one of the world's largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.
To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.
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