Regulatory Affairs Lead

**JOB TITLE**:
**Regulatory Affairs Lead - Saudi Arabia**:
***ABOUT ASTRAZENECA**:
**AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.**:
**ROLE SUMMARY**:
**Implements strategies to improve quality and efficiency of submissions.**:
**This position covers Saudi Arabia.**:
**May be responsible primarily for one or more therapeutic areas, and represent a key point of contact for Saudi Arabia for the AZ portfolio in scope of the assigned therapeutic areas.**:
**What you’ll do**:
**RA strategies for qualitative & efficient submissions**:

- ** Proactively solicits information from the Global Regulatory Lead, plans and monitors execution of submissions related activities**:

- ** Provides expertise, guidance, and awareness to the product teams, skill groups and global functions in support of dynamic Health Authority Regulatory requirements**:

- ** Continuously collaborates with and supports AstraZeneca customers in all regions to gain an understanding of business processes and challenges relative to effective electronic working**:

- ** Ensures business support needs and Information Systems demands are identified and addressed**:

- ** Contribute to business development activities including proposals, reports, costing and budgets.**:

- ** Prioritises project-related operational and strategic activities for deployed staff**:

- ** Ensures Regulatory business needs are incorporated within AstraZeneca’s regulatory systems by being involved in developing requirements, processes and standards**:

- ** Leads and/or participates in special critical projects (e.g. Regulatory strategy)**:

- ** Provides knowledgeable, professional, and interactive representation on industry or internal forums to ensure AstraZeneca’s Regulatory interests and requirements are communicated and incorporated into key decisions**:

- ** Develops and maintains strong partnerships with key global external partners, i.e., Regulatory Health Authorities, Industry Reps., etc.**:

- ** Responsible for the management, supervision and resource allocation of one or more AZ regulatory affairs professionals (junior staff) providing guidance, performance management, coaching and development opportunities.**:

- ** Identifies potential complex regulatory risks to the global and regional operational plans, and propose options to mitigate risks.**:

- ** Has personal responsibility for creating a culture of courageous leadership, creativity and collaboration**:

- ** Acts as an expert resource to product development teams to resolve more complex regulatory issues and ensure the success of all elements of the regulatory process**:

- ** Works as a partner within relevant product and project teams providing regulatory intelligence and advice, and strategic input, as appropriate.**:

- ** Implements strategies to improve quality and efficiency of submissions.**:

- ** Leads or manages projects or complex products through all stages of the regulatory process, while providing expert advice in specific regulatory areas.**:

- ** Manage processes and personnel involved with maintaining annual licenses, registrations, listings and patent information**:

- ** Ensure compliance with product post marketing requirements**:

- ** Reviews and approve required reports and supplemental submissions, advertising and promotional items for regulatory compliance labelling to ensure compliance**:

- ** Ensures a system is in place to manage access to information requests**:

- ** Develops, implements and manages SOPs and systems to track and manage product
- associated events**:

- ** Provides regulatory input for follow-up to inspections and audits to minimize potential for findings of noncompliance**:

- ** Develops a system to ensure product safety issues and product-associated events are reported to regulatory agencies**:

- ** Represent regulatory affairs in product recall and recall communication process**:

- ** Conducts additional tasks as assigned by Line Manager per business need. Normally expected to conduct basic people management responsibilities: coaching, developing others, supervising, managing & guiding regulatory professional in the absence of Line Manager.**:
**Business Partner for county RA agenda**:

- ** Regulatory contact person for the country Director/Head and related BUDs.**:

- ** Country responsibility on having monthly meeting with our agents regulatory teams in country.**:

- ** Contact person for any official interaction with authorities.**:

- ** Responsible to update systems and global teams on any update on guidelines/or important communications or decrees.**:

- ** Aligning between therapy areas Regulatory Affairs managers and the local agent on all outstanding regulatory activities and keep tra