Senior Professional Scientific Policy & Intelligence

Description Overview

We are excited to recruit a Senior Professional, Scientific Policy and Intelligence to join our newly established Scientific Policy & Intelligence (SPI) team, based in Morristown, New Jersey. This role will have a primary focus on US regulatory intelligence and external engagement, including coordination of Perrigo’s scientific experts’ interaction with key US trade associations such as CHPA, while ensuring US developments are interpreted within the broader global self-care context and considering an enterprise view.

 

Reporting directly to the Head of Scientific Policy & Intelligence, a member of Perrigo’s Scientific Office Leadership Team, you will work closely with subject matter experts and senior leaders across the organisation. You will provide scientific and regulatory analysis to support Perrigo’s assessment of, and response to, emerging US external developments across assigned categories, portfolios or strategic topics. The role translates complex scientific, regulatory and policy signals into clear, forward-looking insights and recommendations that support responsible self-care, portfolio resilience, compliant delivery and informed enterprise decision-making.

 

Operating as a technical contributor and trusted stakeholder partner, the role connects individual intelligence updates into an integrated view of trends, threats and opportunities for Perrigo’s US products and pipeline, while identifying where US policy developments may inform, influence or diverge from the broader global policy environment. It applies strong scientific and critical judgement to anticipate change, solve complex problems and inform decisions with broad business impact.

 

This is an individual contributor role focused on technical policy and intelligence expertise, governance support and delivery of outcomes within the assigned remit. It works through matrix collaboration across subject matter experts and cross-functional teams, helping build organisational capability and coordinated enterprise alignment.

Scope of the Role

• Support US policy and intelligence oversight with a focus on interpretation and business impact assessment of emerging scientific, regulatory and policy developments.
• Support the development of US and global scientific and regulatory policy positions on key topics in collaboration with internal subject matter experts, ensuring US perspectives are clearly linked to broader global implications.
• Interpret, assess and contextualise US regulatory and policy developments relevant to Perrigo’s current and future portfolio, in collaboration with internal subject matter experts. Undertake trend analysis and landscape mapping, and contribute to internal positions, consultation responses and briefing materials to support robust industry input, particularly through US trade association engagement, ensuring alignment on topics, priorities and context.
• Contribute to cross-functional advocacy strategies by connecting scientific policy and intelligence insights with Government Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Medical, Commercial and Communications priorities.
• Support the dissemination of critical information on key policy topics to relevant stakeholders, ensuring awareness, understanding and organisational readiness.

 

External Engagement & Trade Association Leadership

• Support Perrigo’s participation in key US industry associations and external policy forums, with a particular focus on CHPA and other relevant US self-care policy platforms.
• Help maximise Perrigo’s impact in US trade associations by coordinating internal inputs and outputs, working with relevant subject matter experts and committee representatives, and ensuring Perrigo positions are scientifically robust, business-relevant and globally connected where appropriate.
• Contribute high-quality input into senior an