Associate Director, Eucan Regulatory Lead, Oncology

**OBJECTIVE**:

- Collaborates to define, develop and lead regional strategies to maximize regulatory approvals and patient access to meaningful medicines in alignment with program objectives.
- Effectively communicates objective assessments of the likelihood of success of these regulatory strategies
- Provides strategic and tactical advice and guidance to teams to achieve timely and efficient conduct of development programs, while maintaining full compliance with applicable regulatory requirements
- Leads the Regional Working Team and represents the region as needed on global and project teams
- Provides regional regulatory expertise for assigned development and/or life cycle management project(s) within the therapeutic area of responsibility
- Manages interactions with EMA and oversees national health authorities and HTAs (jointly with value and access team in context of parallel consultation) in the Europe Region for products within their responsibility.

**ACCOUNTABILITIES**:

- Ensures regional regulatory strategies are written, reviewed and executed according to plan
- Provides strategic and tactical advice and guidance to allow the timely and efficient conduct of development programs, while maintaining full compliance with applicable regulatory requirements
- Manages, plans, and executes regional regulatory submissions within the area of responsibility and ensures timely approvals throughout product development and lifecycle
- Partners with the regional market access and LOC RA colleagues to define the strategy for, and to lead and oversee joint interactions with regional and national regulatory/health agency/HTA bodies on value and evidence topics and to support heath authority decision making
- Collaborates with Takeda Global and Regional counterparts and Integrated Franchise Team (IFT) to ensure the regional regulatory strategy is created and executed upon for all projects within area of responsibility
- Identifies regulatory requirements and trends across scope of responsibility, and provides regulatory guidance, and expertise to global development team and/or higher governance bodies in these areas
- Mentors team members, if required
- May be called upon to act as deputy to the Regional therapeutic area lead and/ or Regional regulatory head, attending internal leadership team meetings, as appropriate
- Monitors and informs on emerging trends, regulations and changes, with emphasis on those related to area and region of responsibility
- May be called upon to provide direction to senior leadership, as relevant
- Develops and maintains effective working relationships with EUCAN RA and Oncology team members, LOC RA teams, Global Regulatory Teams, Cross-functional Teams; consultants and business partners as required
- Oversees and accountable for working with other RA functions and/or vendor to ensure that regulatory submissions and approvals are achieved on schedule within area of responsibility
- Identifies relevant regional regulatory requirements and provides regulatory guidance, and expertise to internal team on the assigned project(s) of responsibility
- Authors and reviews regional regulatory strategies as well as executes day-to-day activities for projects
- In collaboration with global colleagues, works to resolve regional critical conflicts in global regulatory strategies
- Authors and oversees execution for more complex regional regulatory strategies, as needed
- Leads and manages meetings and / or interactions with regulatory authorities and agency meetings negotiates on behalf of project team as necessary. Represents Takeda in Health Authority meetings, as required. Effectively communicates and manages meeting outcome and next steps
- May be required to lead and provide regional regulatory input in due diligence for licensing opportunities, development and /or marketed products.
- Proactively builds/strengthens external stakeholder (Regulatory Agency, external experts, industry organizations, etc) contacts/influence to achieve Takeda strategic goals and objectives
- Identifies regulatory requirements and trends across area(s) of responsibility, and provides regulatory guidance, and expertise to global development team and/or higher governance bodies in these areas, as requested
- Ensures coverage for projects within the therapeutic area identifies possible gaps, and proposes solutions to the management
- Identifies and proposes solutions to the management of resource gaps for areas of responsibility
- Presents regional regulatory strategies to senior management as applicable.

**Locations**:
Zurich, Switzerland

**Worker Type**:
Employee

**Worker Sub-Type**:
Regular

**Time Type**:
Full time