Sr. Director, Regulatory Affairs Strategy - Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc.

Senior Director, Global Regulatory Affairs Strategy

The position will provide regulatory affairs strategic leadership for the company and novel drug development programs.  Of each program this position supports, the individual will be responsible for developing and executing the overall regulatory strategy, which includes developing the registration pathway, interacting with regulatory agencies, and being responsible for all associated regulatory filings.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute novel drug regulatory strategy
• Ensure development programs are compliant with ICH regulatory requirements and all local country regulatory requirements
• Strong project management skills and strong interpersonal skills to handle complex distributed programs
• Ability to author clear and concise regulatory documents with oversight of all documents for regulatory submissions and associated messaging
• Work closely with regulatory CMC lead and overall development team to insure overall regulatory strategy and regulatory CMC strategy are aligned
• Be the point of contact between the company and the regulatory agency – serve as the regulatory liaison for the company

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacy, Biomedical Engineering, or Chemical Engineering is mandatory; PhD or PharmD in above disciplines are preferred
• 10+ years industry experience a must with RA novel drug development
• CMC and/or Botanical experience, RAC certification
• Thorough understanding of ICH and US CFR requirements and regulations.
• Regulatory document submissions authoring experience (INDs, IMPDs, NDAs, BLAs, briefing books)
• Regulatory agency direct interaction experience
• Strong communications skills