Global Regulatory Affairs Director - Inflammation and Rare Disease

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

3d • $189,632 - $256,562

About The Position

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients
At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.
Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.
Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.
Regulatory Affairs Director - Inflammation and Rare Disease
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Amgen is seeking a Regulatory Affairs Director supporting products in the Inflammation and Rare Disease Therapeutic Area. Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA) provides global regulatory leadership, expertise, and execution for the development, registration, and life cycle management of all Amgen molecules.
In this vital, product-facing role you will lead the Global Regulatory Team (GRT) in the Regulatory Affairs organization. The role of the Regulatory Affairs Director is to lead GRTs within Amgen’s GRAAS organization, develop a comprehensive regulatory strategy that takes into account worldwide regulatory requirements to drive product development, global registration, achievement and maintenance of desired regional labeling, and effective regulatory agency interactions, and to provide regulatory expertise and guidance to product teams.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of regulatory experience in biotech or science
• Master’s degree and 7 years of regulatory experience in biotech or science
• Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of regulatory experience in biotech or science

Nice To Haves

• Ability to lead and build effective teams
• Strong communication skills - both oral and written
• Ability to understand and communicate scientific/clinical information
• Ability to anticipate and mitigate against future strategic issues & uncertainties
• Ability to resolve conflicts and develop a course of action
• Cultural awareness and sensitivity to achieve global results
• Planning and organizing abilities
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple activities
• Ability to make complex decisions and solve problems
• Ability to deal with ambiguity
• Negotiation skills

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the global regulatory product strategy
• Lead GRTs
• Represent Regulatory on the product team and other key commercialization governance bodies
• Develop Global Regulatory Strategic Plan and provide regulatory input into the product’s Global Strategic Plan. Obtain input from the GRT members to develop a global regulatory strategy which supports product development, registration and lifecycle maintenance. Identify and communicate regulatory risks
• Represent GRA on the product team
• Develop registration strategies and plans aimed at achieving regulatory approval and product labeling
• Provide regulatory direction in the development of the core data sheet to align commercial objectives in the context of available and expected scientific data, regulatory guidance and precedent
• Lead the planning and implementation of global regulatory filings (e.g. clinical trial applications, marketing applications, label extensions, CMC changes)
• Ensure consistency of evidence-based global product communication (e.g. regulatory submission documents)
• Monitor and assess impact of relevant global regulations, guidance, and current regulatory environment
• Ensure guidance on regulatory mechanisms to optimize product development (e.g. expediting FIH studies, Orphan Drug, Fast Track, conditional /accelerated approval, compassionate use and pediatric plan) is assessed and incorporated into the global regulatory strategy
• Communicate consistently well defined, successful regulatory strategies throughout the organization such that expectation is understood
• Ensure effective regulatory agency communications by leading core regulatory and cross functional teams (e.g. GRTs, filing teams)
• Attend key regulatory agency meetings which could impact the global product strategy
• Represent Amgen Regulatory on external partnership teams at the product level

Benefits

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models where possible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree