Director, Regulatory Affairs Business Operations

This role resides in the Global Development area of Regulatory Affairs, Global Patient Safety and Development Quality (RA, GPS and DQ) and the Director of Strategy Planning and Operations role will work closely with the Senior Director and the broader Strategy Planning & Operations, the RA, GPS, DQ Leadership Team (LT) and the administrative team in support of functional area support. 

In this role, a typical day might include:  

• This position will oversee strategic activities including objective and goal setting, quarterly reporting, resource and budget management, team communications, aligning interdepartmental and cross-functional activities, and issue management.  This role works collaboratively as part of the RA, GPS & DQ Strategy and Operations team to drive the function’s vision, mission, and organizational evolution.  This role is both strategic and tactical, requiring a nimble problem solver and critical thinker with strong interpersonal skills, discernment, and the ability to shift adeptly between diverse priorities. 

This role might be for you if can:

• Be accountable for collaborating with all the RA, GPS and DQ functional lines and, as required, facilitates the execution of strategic objectives. 

• Spearhead implementation of initiatives including project tracking and ensuring appropriate cross-functional links to other stakeholders. 

• Support stakeholder management across RA, GPS & DQ. 

• Monitor performance and quality delivery from the functional organization. 

• Drive the development and tracking of functional goals, including coordinating periodic functional reviews, collating quarterly status, and ensuring issue escalation/resolution. 

• Facilitate the development, maintenance, and review of management reports /dashboards enabling decision making and strategic action. 

• Enable functional resource and budget management activities and support headcount planning and evaluating sourcing models/approaches. 

• Facilitate resource management and review of demand/capacity. 

• Partner in developing job descriptions, requisition management, headcount openings, and active postings. 

• Collaborate with HR to support employee onboarding, engagement, and talent reviews. 

• Assist in functional budget management/tracking of spend and liaises with cross functional leadership and Finance. 

• Lead resource management, strategic planning, development and implementation of key initiatives. 

• Own key functional meetings, communications, engagement & team events. This role involves preparing agendas, meeting materials, action/deliverable tracking and follow up. 

• Ensure appropriate communication cascade within/outside the organization in partnership with Corporate Communications and RA, GPS, DQ Chief of Staff. 

• Represent the functional Senior Leadership Team at delegated meetings, events, activities. 

• May directly supervise administrative support staff for select activities and projects. 

• Actively participate in operational optimizat