If you’re an experienced pharmaceutical industry regulatory affairs professional with a really solid background in UK / Ireland regulatory affairs and you’d like to know about a great opportunity with a company where personality comes first I’d love to speak with you.

I’m working with the head of European Regulatory Affairs of a well established, global, research based pharmaceutical company.  We’re looking for someone to take full responsibility for UK and Ireland regulatory activities (main focus UK) so you’ll have a demonstrable background in building great relationships with regulators (MHRA, IHPA, ABPI for example) and you’ll be happy working in a broad, all encompassing affiliate level role.

While you’d be the only dedicated regulatory professional covering UK and Ireland activities it’s really important to communicate that you’ll be working really collaboratively with both your colleagues in the European Regulatory team and also colleagues in the UK / Ireland affiliates.  The corollary of this is that we’re looking for someone who’s a fantastic team player and also someone who has the background to take true accountability for local activities.  Having said that the collaborative, positive mindset we’re looking for is a priority over specific experience; skills and knowledge can be developed, attitude less so…

The role’s main focus is in covering all regulatory activities for marketed products.  That having been said this is a research based pharma so there will be development projects as well.  You’ll be able to demonstrate a broad knowledge of regulatory and that you can take accountability for local activities.  You’ll also be looked to constructively challenge where necessary so confidence on your knowledge and abilities is key.  You won’t have formal leadership responsibility for anyone so the leadership attributes we’re looking for are around your ability to influence and lead as a subject matter expert.

The offering from the company is really attractive.  There is scope for support if you have the right personality but aren’t quite there in terms of experience so short term training is on offer.  You’ll also have the opportunity to work with a fantastic team with a diverse range of skills and backgrounds, both locally and internationally.  If you have aspirations to move to an above country role there will be opportunities to get involved with projects at a European and potentially global level.  If that goes well there’s scope, in time, for you to perform in an above country capacity from the UK.

The brief is really pretty simple.  If you can answer yes to the following questions you should get in touch;

• Do you have a solid background in UK pharmaceutical regulatory affairs to the extent that you’re confident in taking on all UK / Ire Regulatory Affairs activities as part of a geographically diverse EU team?
• Have you built great working relationships with relevant regulators?
• Do you have a collaborative, relationship based approach to your work?
• Do you want a role with high visibility, autonomy and accountability?

We’d love to hear from you so that we can tell you more about this role. It really stands out to me as an attractive opportunity for the right person.