Job Description
Our Regulatory Affairs team bring new medical advancements to the world by facilitating communications and procedures that allow swift, organized compliance across regulatory agencies. We are an international network on the leading-edge of healthcare breakthroughs that help provide new, reliable, and compliant medical products, practices and solutions to the world.
Position Purpose:
This role will provide support across Regulatory Operations activities in the LATAM region spanning the submission planning and publishing work. The role will be accountable for the delivery of timely and high-quality regulatory dossiers from planning through to delivery at Country RA or submission to the authorities and serve as the primary contact for submission activities within the region.
It will be important for this role to be a conduit of information between the broader Global Reg Ops Regional Teams (EU/EEMEA, APAC, Americas) to the Regional (Product Registration) Regulatory Teams. There is also an expectation to coordinate with other Strategic Operations leads (e.g. PV Ops, Label Ops, Information Management, Business Development & Vendor Management, Portfolio Planning and Execution) and Manufacturing/CMC.
A key focus will be providing leadership, support and subject matter expertise (SME) to partner planners and publishers.
Organizational Relationships:
* This position will report to the Director of Regulatory Operations LATAM within Regulatory Operations within Strategic Operations in the Research and Development organization of Organon & Co.
Primary Responsibilities may span both Submission Publishing and Planning Capabilities:
Planning Specific:
* Actively manages submission timelines and has a clear understanding of dependencies and critical path activities
* For assigned products, works closely with the Regulatory Lead to assess the overall program and manages the sequencing of submissions as needed
* Facilitate meetings effectively and clearly communicate decisions and action items to team members and relevant stakeholders
* Assemble a cross-functional team and drive identification, planning, and execution of regulatory and safety submissions, with an end-to-end mindset
Publishing Specific:
* Lead the production of high quality submission assemblies utilizing submission-ready documents that adhere to internal and external electronic submission guidelines
* Ensure submission assemblies meet the level of technical integrity required for our company and health authority validation tools
* Assist submission project teams with the identification of submission ready content requirements and applicable timeline milestones for execution of right-first-time submission assemblies
General:
* Independently identify, assess and actively resolve or escalate where necessary any risks or issues that could impact the successful completion of regulatory submissions
* Proactively and creatively problem-solves, makes effective and timely decisions while skillfully negotiating to resolve conflicts
* Ensures project data, including information used to maintain compliance and aid with submission planning, is accurately reported in databases
* Assume the lead role in the development of processes and documentation, including user acceptance testing for new and updated tools. Delegation of these project activities to planners/publishers within the department as needed.
* Assume the role of subject matter expert for specific functions or processes, interacting and mentoring both within the department and with external stakeholders
* Assume the lead for training/mentoring internal and external staff
* Assist with departmental metrics by tracking status of projects, day-to-day production activities, and anomalies.
* Continuously develops and improves leadership and project management skillsets, understanding of drug/vaccine/biologics/device development, and regulatory practices
Education Minimum Requirements:
* Required: Bachelors degree plus 5 years of regulatory operations experience
* Preferred: Bachelors degree plus 8 years of regulatory operations experience
Required Experience and Skills:
* Experience with the Liquent InSight Publisher application
* Experience with industry standard electronic document management system
* Experience with project management and leading teams
* Must have proven track record to be able to think critically, strategically, independently and problem solve
* Must have high level of motivation, drive, and demonstration of Organon leadership values
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills including ability to write clearly and concisely
* In depth working knowledge of industry standard publishing systems and desktop applications including MS Word and Adobe Acrobat Professional
* Detail-oriented with the ability to understand the big picture and overall strategy of projects/programs
Preferred Experience and Skills:
* Top notch interpersonal skills in difficult situations
* Driver of change and innovation
* Ability to work seamlessly with all levels of personnel
* Demonstrated sensitivity and knowledge of cultural differences with experience in multi-country, multi-cultural environments and demonstrated success with cross-geographically based cultural collaborations
* Excellent word processing, sharepoint, excel, e-mail, and online meeting tool skills
We are a research-driven biopharmaceutical company. Our mission is built on the simple premise that if we follow the science that great medicines can make a significant impact to our world. We believe that a research-driven enterprise dedicated to world-class science can succeed by inventing medicine and vaccine innovations that make a difference for patients across the globe.
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Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
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Requisition ID:R89061
Kenilworth, NJ
Merck & Co., Inc. provides healthcare solutions worldwide. It operates through four segments: Pharmaceutical, Animal Health, Healthcare Services, and Alliances. The company offers therapeutic and preventive agents to treat cardiovascular, type 2 diabetes, chronic hepatitis C virus, HIV-1 infection, intra-abdominal, fungal infection, insomnia, and inflammatory diseases. It also provides neuromuscular blocking agents; cholesterol modifying medicines; and anti-bacterial and vaginal contraceptive products.
In addition, the company offers products to prevent chemotherapy-induced and post-operative nausea and vomiting; treat non-small-cell lung, ovarian and breast, thyroid, and cervical cancer, as well as brain tumors; and prevent diseases caused by human papillomavirus, as well as offers vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, shingles, rotavirus gastroenteritis, and pneumococcal diseases.
Further, it provides antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drugs to treat infectious and respiratory diseases, fertility disorders, and pneumonia in cattle, bovine, and swine; vaccines for poultry; parasiticide for sea lice in salmon; and antibiotics and vaccines for fishes. Additionally, the company offers companion animal products, such as ointments; diabetes mellitus treatment and anthelmintic products; products to treat fleas and ticks in dogs and cats; fertility management products for horses; vaccines for dogs, cats, and horses; and products for protection against bites from fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, and sandflies.
It has collaborations with AstraZeneca PLC; Bayer AG; Eisai Co., Ltd.; and Intec Pharma Ltd. The company serves drug wholesalers and retailers, hospitals, government agencies and entities, physicians, distributors, veterinarians, animal producers, and managed health care providers. Merck & Co., Inc. was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey.