Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist - Eurofins

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the leading global emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing.

In 2018, Eurofins generated 4.2 billion Euro proforma turnover in 800 laboratories across 47 countries, employing about 45.000 staff.

Eurofins stands for a conception of clinical diagnostics entirely focused on excellence, innovation and technological investment. Eurofins clinical diagnostics offers testing services in all medical specialties.

As a central element in healthcare, clinical diagnostics contributes to every stage of patient care: predisposition, prevention, diagnostics, treatment monitoring and prognosis.

With hundreds of thousands of clinical diagnostics tests performed every day, the laboratories of the clinical diagnostics division strive to ensure that every patient, wherever he or she lives, has access to the most specialized and most innovative techniques for diagnosis, monitoring and therapeutic adjustment. Our logistics expertise and our daily sample collection and delivery network, guarantee perfect continuity in the provision of care while ensuring the same standard of quality and access to innovation across all the regions we serve.

Job Description

Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Under the direction of the Manager, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance, this position in tandem with Senior Management, will assist with ensuring that DPT's laboratories are compliant with the regulatory and accrediting organizations that oversee our laboratories.

This position works closely and collaboratively with other functional areas throughout the network of laboratories.

• Evaluates the regulatory environment and contributes to providing internal advice on regulatory and accrediting compliance.
• Anticipates regulatory obstacles and emerging issues related to laboratory testing and the transplant industry/ community.
• Assists in the development of regulatory strategy and updates strategy based upon regulatory changes, as appropriate.
• Provides regulatory information and guidance to the regulatory groups and others within the organization.
• Identifies the need for new regulatory procedures, SOPs, and participates in development, training, and implementation of the regulatory processes.
• Helps train stakeholders on current and new regulatory requirements to ensure organization-wide compliance.
• Assists other departments in the development of SOPs to ensure regulatory compliance, as needed.
• Provides regulatory input and technical guidance on applicable international regulatory requirements.
• Communicates and interacts with regulatory and/or accrediting authorities through appropriate communication tools.
• Works with cross-functional teams for interactions with regulatory authorities.
• Accountable for the organization, research, communication, maintenance, and growth of the DPT Regulatory Intelligence Library and addressing all regulatory inquiries in a timely manner.
• Maintains list of all applicable Standards and Regulations which apply to all DPT facilities.
• Maintains DPT regulatory licensing, certification and permits for all facilities including renewals, assay change notifications, site or lab director changes, etc. including updating and maintaining current regulatory status on websites (CAP.org, NYS HCS) and internal tracking spreadsheets (submissions, licenses/permits, etc.)
• Manages and maintains industry standards and guidance subscriptions, maintains relationships with industry organizations and communicates any output to stakeholders.
• Interprets and applies FDA and other industry regulations and standards to business practices and fit for purpose.
• Writes, edits, and maintains departmental standard operating procedures with management and team.
• Coordinates the internal Audit schedule and assign auditors as necessary to meet the scope and expectations of the schedule. Perform internal audits in auditor or lead auditor role.
• Organizes and compiles information for inspection/audit responses.
• Represents Eurofins DPT in lead or supporting