Senior Associate Regulatory Affairs Submission Management

Responsibilities

• Manages medium to high impact (with respect to internal visibility, risk, complexity and criticality) submission projects to ensure the timely delivery of high quality dossiers that meet technical specifications defined by regulatory authorities and can be easily navigated and reviewed by a regulatory agency.
• Acts as RA Submissions interface with project teams providing guidance and communication of established submission processes and standards.
• Provides input to project scope, especially as it impacts publishing timelines and deliverables.
• Plans and conducts submission team meetings.
• Expedites, manages, and coordinates multiple concurrent interrelated activities for submission projects and/or for multiple products in the delivery of moderately complex published submissions within the required timelines.
• Anticipates obstacles and develop solutions within the team.
• Captures and coordinates submission publishing with offsite publishers/provides notification to ensure all required resources are available to meet submission timelines.
• Prepares content planner for publishing and works with vendor to resolve publishing issues. May perform in-house publishing tasks.
• May be a technical Subject Matter Expert troubleshooting issues and providing technical systems support.
• Facilitates the creation or procurement of submission content deliverables such as cover letters and forms.
• Performs detailed quality reviews of published output to ensure compliance with Regulatory Standards and Health Authority guidances including verification of content, bookmarks, hypertext links and tables of content in moderately complex submissions.
• Facilitates team reviews.
• Suggests and contributes to process improvements, including changes to software and business processes.
• May participate on internal project teams to update business software.
• Demonstrates team leadership skills and ability to influence without direct authority.
• Buils and maintains positive relationships internally and externally.
• Contributes to the development of optimal business processes and standards within the department to ensure high levels of customer support and to achieve high quality submissions.
• Contributes to the creation, and implementation of internal process and standards documents relating to publishing and publishing deliverables.

Qualifications

• Four years pharmaceutical or industry related experience with publishing related software tools e.g. Documentum, eCTDXPress/ISIPublisher, ISI Toolbox/DocuBridge/Insight platform, Adobe Acrobat.
• Experience in Regulatory Affairs preferred but may consider QA, R&D/support, Scientific affairs, operations or related area.
• Experience in Regulatory Operations, including regulatory submission project management and/or submission publishing is preferred.
• Proven leadership skills and presence.