Associate Vice President, Regulatory Strategy

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · Boston, MA

Associate Vice President, Regulatory Strategy role at Eli Lilly (Verve Therapeutics) focused on providing strategic regulatory leadership for gene editing therapies. Responsibilities include overseeing global regulatory strategies, managing regulatory activities (clinical trial applications, IND amendments, safety reporting), providing strategic regulatory input, resolving regulatory issues, advising product teams, and mentoring direct reports. Requires advanced degree, 15+ years of industry experience, and strong regulatory expertise in a fast-paced, innovation-focused environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and develop a team of leaders, fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, and high performance
  2. Maintain oversight of regulatory activities including but not limited to clinical trial applications, IND amendments, annual reports, safety reporting, expedited program applications, and meetings with global health authorities
  3. Provide strategic regulatory input into content of relevant sections of project/product specific documents submitted to global regulatory agencies and ensure that these documents meet high scientific standards and regulatory requirements
  4. Provide leadership to resolve critical regulatory issues and bring the appropriate partners and regulatory experts together as needed
  5. Support Global Regulatory Lead(s) in providing robust regulatory advice and plans to the various project teams to ensure that the business needs are in compliance with regulations and/or regulatory advice received from the agencies

Skills

Required

  • Advanced degree in biology, chemistry or closely related field
  • 15+ years of relevant industry experience with roles of increasing responsibility and scope
  • Deep regulatory expertise
  • Strong scientific competence
  • Ability to lead through complexity
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Exceptional listening skills
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Good negotiating and influencing skills

Nice to have

  • PhD or PharmD strongly preferred
  • Previous experience with complex biologics, genetic editing, or gene therapy products
  • Prior experience in a scientific and/or technical setting to allow understanding of experiments, documentation and data
  • Ability to take broad abstract concepts and distill them down into a vision with an actionable plan
  • Ability to apply critical thinking to foreshadow and resolve challenges and roadblocks to allow the organization to push forward
  • Ability to analyze data to drive conceptual thinking and decision making

What the JD emphasized

  • gene editing therapies
  • global regulatory strategies
  • clinical trial applications
  • IND amendments
  • meetings with global health authorities
  • regulatory requirements