Senior Regulatory Affairs Scientist Full-time

Senior Regulatory Affairs Scientist

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Regulatory Affairs Scientist, located in Spring House, PA, Raritan or Titusville, NJ.

Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA) is looking for a high energy, inventive, self-starter who is passionate about advancing their career in healthcare. GRA is a key strategic partner supporting global R&D initiatives at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine. As a Senior Regulatory Affairs Scientist you will support drug development programs as well as marketed products across multiple therapeutic areas. You will gain broad and diverse regulatory experience supporting compounds in early to late drug development as well as life-cycle activities for approved products in our portfolio via a flexible rotational model geared towards addressing business needs and individual career-development goals.

Through hands-on, real-world experiences, you will work on projects that improve your leadership, problem solving, and creative thinking skills. Furthermore, you will acquire the business savvy to be successful in a complex, fast-paced, and innovative regulatory environment.

You will be responsible for:

• Participate in global and regional regulatory team meetings and advise the regulatory team on applicable regulatory requirements, project-specific regulatory issues as assigned.
• Develop an understanding of the regional regulatory environment, competitor intelligence, and therapeutic area.
• Assist in the preparation of meetings and act as backup for contact with Regulatory Agencies as needed
• Ensure responses to Regulatory Agency queries are made in a timely manner, and that content is consistent with the regulatory strategy
• Work cross-functionally, interact with internal and external colleagues with coordination between departments, and lead team meetings as appropriate
• Advise team in required documents and submission strategies
• Review clinical trial plans, protocols and submission plans ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements
• Support the development and improvement of processes related to regulatory submissions
• Provide regulatory input for and follow-up to inspections, audits, litigation support, and product complaints
• Stay on top of current and pending approvals in assigned therapeutic areas and is knowledgeable of laws, guidelines and requirements related to those areas.
• May interact with Health Authorities (HA) regarding program-specific issues and serve as secondary HA point-of-contact to represent J&J/Janssen externally with some degree of supervision

Qualifications / Requirements:

Education: Bachelor's degree in a scientific or equivalent discipline + 6 years experience in academia or industry OR Pharm D/PhD + 2 years experience OR Masters +3 years of experience is required.

Experience and Skills Required: Understanding of the drug development process.

Preferred:

• Previous experience in a health regulated industry
• Understanding of regulatory submission and approval process and applicable US and EMA regulatory guidelines
• Relevant regulatory affairs experience in pharmaceutical/biotech
• Experience responding to HA requests, managing HA interactions, and life cycle management applications
• Diverse therapeutic area experience
• Experience within a cross-functional team environment as an individual contributor and decision maker

• Proactively anticipates issues; exercises judgment in developing new approaches/solutions and resolving issues
• Influences or persuades others within area of immediate responsibility, scope, and level to accept new ideas, practices and approaches
• Skilled at project managing and effectively prioritizing assignments for multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills