Regulatory Affairs Associate Director

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · Bei Jing-北京, China

This role is for a Regulatory Affairs Associate Director at Eli Lilly in China, focusing on developing and implementing regulatory strategies to accelerate drug submissions, approvals, and launches. It involves close collaboration with global and local teams, interaction with regulatory authorities, and ensuring compliance with regulations and Lilly's policies. The position requires deep knowledge of drug development, risk management in a regulated environment, and strong negotiation and communication skills in both Chinese and English.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide regulatory leadership, expertise & value by developing regulatory strategies in close collaboration with the Global Regulatory Lead (GRL) and China core team. This role aims to accelerate the submission, approval & launch of the responsible projects or sub-TA portfolio, to improve patient outcomes in China.
  2. Implement regulatory strategies to accelerate submissions & approvals of new products & meet regulatory milestones through partnership with RDE & project core teams. Ensure product registration and other regulatory affairs activities under Lilly’s policies and standard operating procedures, and other applicable laws and regulations.
  3. Interact with regulatory authorities and timely communicate with Lilly internal functions of product registration issues.
  4. Lead the development of labelling strategy (product information and packaging) to enable timely completion of registration milestones (i.e. submission, approval, and launch). Apply labelling expertise, competitor knowledge, and regulatory precedent to propose labelling content to influence commercially viable labelling in China. Lead team during negotiation with regulators by providing responses to labeling questions.
  5. Monitor and evaluate the new regulations and guidance, regulatory changes and trends, and work with internal regulatory intelligence & policy group to provide business insights.

Skills

Required

  • At least bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical or chemical/biopharmaceutical sciences
  • At least 8-years experiences in drug regulatory affairs
  • Demonstrated knowledge and ability in leading the new technology or platform, if the position is for a novel technology
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the drug development process, Lilly’s (or external peer company) regulatory/business strategies
  • Demonstrated ability to assess and manage risks in a highly regulated environment
  • Demonstrated strong written, spoken and presentation communication both in Chinese and English
  • Demonstrated negotiation and influence skills
  • Demonstrated attention to details
  • Self-motivated and Innovative

What the JD emphasized

  • at least 8-years experiences in drug regulatory affairs
  • demonstrated ability to assess and manage risks in a highly regulated environment
  • demonstrated strong written, spoken and presentation communication both in Chinese and English
  • demonstrated negotiation and influence skills