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Director, Global Regulatory Affairs CMC Alliance Partnered and Divested Products Lead - Zurich Hybrid

Zurich, Canton of Zurich
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  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Job Level: Senior
  • Travel: Minimal (if any)

Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA) develops and executes innovative regulatory strategies to provide life-changing therapies to patients. GRA has a strategic role in all stages of global product development and across the Takeda Enterprise.

At Takeda, we strive to provide transformational opportunities for every member of our team, and we empower our people to take charge of their futures. In an environment that fosters lifelong learning and a growth mindset, you’ll have the support you need to thrive — at work and beyond.

Job ID R0103307 Date posted 09/14/2023 Location Zurich, Canton of Zurich

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Job Description

Join Takeda as Director, Global Regulatory Affairs CMC Alliance Partnered and Divested Product Lead, where you are accountable for developing and executing on GRA CMC strategies for lifecycle management.  You ensure global strategies are implemented across existing portfolio, while ensuring team effectiveness in a complex matrix environment.  Reporting to the Head of GRA CMC for MPD, CMC Sourcing and Due Diligence, you partner closely across the organization to influence as a key opinion leader within Takeda, providing consistent messaging on Takeda’s scope of regulatory within the Contract Manufacturing Business (CMB) for downstream efficiency proceeding complexity of divestment decisions, and align on ways of working for Takeda alliance partnered products.

How you will contribute:

  • Independently manage regulatory submissions for assigned compounds for global marketing applications, and post-approval life cycle activities.
  • Evaluate change proposals for global regulatory impact and plan global variations and amendments.
  • Member of global teams which require experienced interpretation of applicable EMA/FDA/ICH/WHO/Global regulations to ensure CMC compliance.
  • Lead team members that establish CMC content (data and documentation) requirements for regulatory submissions and review content for conformance with established requirement.
  • Ensures project team, line management, and key stakeholders are apprised of developments that may impact regulatory success, exercising sound judgement and communicating in a professional and timely manner.  Provide solutions to prevent recurrence of issues.
  • Interact directly with international Health Authorities. Participate in and facilitate agency meetings.
  • Stay up to date with current and evolving regulatory CMC requirements, apply this knowledge to assigned projects, and share experience with others to support their development.
  • Maintain constructive relations with essential colleagues, e.g., colleagues within Takeda, Alliance Partners, and Health Authority representatives.

What you bring to Takeda:

  • BS/BA Degree in a Scientific Discipline, Advanced Degree preferred.
  • 10+ years pharmaceutical Regulatory CMC experience including experience as an RA CMC product lead, or equivalent industry experience (e.g., Pharmaceutical Development, Analytical Development, Production, Quality Assurance).
  • Experience with active pharmaceutical ingredient/drug substances, drug products, biologics, analytical characterization, process scale-up or regulatory registration of products is required.
  • Expert in developing alternate strategies based on guidance/regulations.
  • Expert in liaising with Regulatory Agencies having served as lead in successful Agency Interactions related to CMC submissions and product development meetings.  International experience preferred.
  • Understanding of scientific principles and regulatory CMC requirements relevant to global drug development and post-market support; application of knowledge to all areas of life-cycle management.
  • Ability to deal with issues of critical importance, provides regulatory advice and making reasoned decisions on regulatory issues for which there may not be clear/specific regulatory guidance.
  • Able to provide sound strategic advice and enable critical decisions under ambiguity.
  • Demonstrate leadership, problem-solving ability, flexibility, and values teamwork.
  • Demonstrate strategic enterprise thinking, with the ability to influence at all levels in a complex matrix environment.
  • Exercise good judgement in elevating and communicating actual or potential issues to line management and presents solutions to those issues.
  • Good judgement in elevating and communicating actual or potential issues to line management.
  • Builds and maintains a team environment that inspires and enables people to move the organization forward.
  • Expert in CTD authoring and/or review skills throughout the product lifecycle, with a solid understanding of global submission complexities.

Travel Requirements:

  • Willingness to travel to various meetings, including overnight trips.
  • Requires approximately up to 10-30% travel.

Locations

Zurich, Switzerland

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time
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Where you fit in

When you join our Regulatory Affairs team, you’ll help ensure the fastest, safest path for our treatments to get to patients. With colleagues who encourage you to question everything for better outcomes, you’ll be part of a team that’s deeply involved across each therapeutic area, from candidate selection to post-marketing.

At Takeda, you’ll join an environment with the energy and flexibility of a startup. We continue building on our 240-year history as a global biopharmaceutical leader through our innovative mindset and lean governance. Find everything you need on our Regulatory Affairs team to positively impact patients’ lives while taking strides within your own.

  • Oversee regulatory activities

  • Provide strategic focus

  • Collaborate cross functionally

  • Ensure regulatory compliance

Integrity is at the center of everything we do. This value is not something that you teach — it comes with the package.

Tatiana Ishida - Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Marketed Products Group and Labeling

We sit outside of the traditional disciplines, so we’re able to get involved in everything.Our role is to distill complex information and pull insights that give us a competitive advantage.

Nahid Latif - Head, Global Regulatory Affairs

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Our internal research capabilities and external partnerships contribute to an R&D engine that has produced exciting new molecular entities (NMEs) across our core Therapeutic Areas. Check out our pipeline and see how we’ll continue delivering a steady stream of next-generation therapies.

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Our values of Takeda-ism are Integrity, Fairness, Honesty and Perseverance, with Integrity as the core. These are brought to life through actions based on Patient, Trust, Reputation and Business, in that order.

Our belief in putting people first extends beyond our patients — it includes their families and communities, as well as our Takeda colleagues and their families.

We are committed to embracing our differences, valuing different perspectives, and fostering a culture of respect, inclusiveness and empowerment.

Our embedded Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) strategy enables us to attract and retain exceptional talent, drives innovation, and helps address systemic inequalities in our communities.

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    Through trust and respect, you will have genuine support from leaders, managers, and colleagues to do your best work.

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Zurich, Canton of Zurich


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