Senior Professional Scientific Policy & Intelligence

At Perrigo, we are driven by our mission to make lives better through trusted health and wellness solutions, accessible to all. As a Top 10 player in the European Consumer Self-Care market and the largest U.S. store brand provider of over-the-counter and infant formula, we are the people behind brands you trust—Opill®, Compeed®, Solpadeine®, NiQuitin®, and many more. We foster an inclusive, collaborative culture where each person can experience a sense of belonging.

About the role

We are recruiting a Senior Professional, Scientific Policy and Intelligence to join our newly established Scientific Policy & Intelligence (SPI) team, based in Morristown, New Jersey. This role focuses on US regulatory intelligence and external engagement, including coordination of Perrigo’s scientific experts’ interaction with key US trade associations such as CHPA. You will ensure US developments are interpreted within the broader global self-care context and consider an enterprise view.

Reporting directly to the Head of Scientific Policy & Intelligence, you will work closely with subject matter experts and senior leaders across the organization. The role translates complex scientific, regulatory, and policy signals into clear, forward-looking insights and recommendations that support responsible self-care, portfolio resilience, compliant delivery, and informed enterprise decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Support US policy and intelligence oversight, focusing on interpretation and business impact assessment of emerging scientific, regulatory, and policy developments.
• Support the development of US and global scientific and regulatory policy positions on key topics in collaboration with internal subject matter experts, ensuring US perspectives are linked to broader global implications.
• Interpret, assess, and contextualize US regulatory and policy developments relevant to Perrigo’s current and future portfolio, in collaboration with internal experts.
• Undertake trend analysis and landscape mapping, and contribute to internal positions, consultation responses, and briefing materials to support robust industry input, particularly through US trade association engagement.
• Contribute to cross-functional advocacy strategies by connecting scientific policy and intelligence insights with Government Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Medical, Commercial, and Communications priorities.
• Support the dissemination of critical information on key policy topics to relevant stakeholders, ensuring awareness, understanding, and organizational readiness.
• Support Perrigo’s participation in key US industry associations and external policy forums, with a focus on CHPA and other relevant US self-care policy platforms.
• Maximize Perrigo’s impact in US trade associations by coordinating internal inputs and outputs, ensuring positions are scientifically robust, business-relevant, and globally connected.
• Contribute high-quality input into senior and board-level briefings ahead of key US association meetings, translating complex external developments into clear implications and recommended actions.
• Contribute to key Perrigo scientific and regulatory policy forums, supporting effective governance, alignment, and consistent decision-making across assigned topics and stakeholders.
• Support the development and delivery of advocacy training to build internal capability and consistency across the enterprise.
• Support the preparation and delivery of structured outputs from policy forums, ensuring clear documentation of discussions, positions, and agreed actions.
• Serve as a trusted partner to subject matter experts and leaders across Regulatory Affairs, R&D, Medical, Legal, Government Affairs, Commercial, Quality, and other functions on US policy and intelligence topics.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment on emerging risks, policy developments, and external trends, ensuring implications are understood and appropriately actioned.
• Support horizontal topics that span the US, other regions, categories, or subject areas, ensuring relevant input is gathered and translated into coherent insight.
• Ensure clear handover and follow-up where intelligence or policy outputs require action by accountable execution teams.

Requirements

• Degree in Chemistry, Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Regulatory Affairs, or a related field.
• Significant experience in regulatory affairs and regulatory intelligence within the consumer health industry.
• Strong experience across relevant consumer health regulatory classifications—medicines knowledge essential, ideally within a global, matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated experience in US external regulatory monitoring, industry association engagement, regulatory advocacy, or consultation response development.
• Strong understanding of US regulatory frameworks, policy development processes, external stakeholder environments, and the business implications of regulatory change.
• Ability to connect US developments to relevant global policy and portfolio considerations.
• Proven ability to translate raw intelligence into clear, prioritized, and actionable insights.
• Strong scientific and critical judgment, with the ability to assess emerging risks and opportunities and make risk-based recommendations.
• Ability to identify, escalate, and document emerging risks that may impact compliance, supply continuity, product strategy, or reputation.
• Strong communication and senior-level briefing skills, with the ability to distill complex topics into concise, decision-ready messages.
• Digital and data-driven mindset, using structured frameworks, digital tools, dashboards, and data visualization to track trends and assess impact.
• Collaborative leadership style, with the ability to build capability through coaching, prioritization, feedback, and effective matrix leadership.

Benefits

We offer benefits tailored to supporting you and your family, as well as career development opportunities to ensure you feel valued and supported, both professionally and personally. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive compensation and hybrid working flexibility, with the ability to work two days a week from home in many roles.