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Global Head of Regulatory Affairs

Azurity Pharmaceuticals - Ireland
Irelandfull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Jan 2026

About the role

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. For more information, visit www.azurity.com.

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer. Azurity's success is attributable to our incredibly talented, dedicated team that focuses on benefiting the lives of patients by bringing the best science and commitment to quality into everything that we do. We seek highly motivated individuals with the dedication, integrity, and creative spirit needed to thrive in our organization.

If you are looking to be a part of a dynamic, global, fast-growing organization, have a positive attitude, willing to develop yourself, and are energized by being a part of improving the health of others, we are the perfect match for you. By joining us as the Global Head of Regulatory Affairs your position will be broad, communication between departments will be fast and effective and you will have significant responsibility and autonomy for your work and contributions.

As the Global Head of Regulatory Affairs working on the Global Regulatory Affairs team you will be empowered to develop and lead global strategies to maximize global regulatory success towards achievement of program objectives for complex and multiple projects.

Principle Responsibilities:

  • Oversees regional regulatory leads and staff responsible for ensuring global/regional regulatory strategies are written, reviewed, and executed according to plan. Provides strategic and tactical advice and guidance to allow the timely and efficient conduct of all regulatory projects. Ensures compliance for global regulatory requirements.
  • Is a leader, contributing to cross-functional initiatives and influencing as applicable and demonstrating leadership behaviors.
  • Directs and oversees multiple projects (inclusive of highly complex ones), generally has global/regional oversight for assigned products, this includes oversight to ensure regulatory compliance (e.g. on registration database) by staff and / or vendor.
  • Oversees and accountable for working with other RA functions and/or vendor to ensure that regulatory submissions and approvals are achieved on schedule within area of responsibility. Understands importance of regulatory documents for value and access discussions and partners with access functions to support access applications.
  • Provides leadership and development for direct reports, including those that serve as regional regulatory leads responsible for the design and execution of regional regulatory strategies.
  • Ensures project team colleagues, line management, and key stakeholders are apprised of developments that may impact regulatory success, exercising sound judgement and communicating in a professional and timely manner.
  • Demonstrates ability to anticipate risks and responsible for developing solutions to identified risks and discussing with team and management; understands probabilities of technical success for the solutions.
  • Accountable for all global submissions and approvals of project(s) and/or oversees direct reports responsible.
  • Oversees all submissions.
  • Leads and manages meetings and / or interactions with regulatory authorities and agency meetings; or delegates and oversees direct reports and / or vendor; negotiates on behalf of RA team, as necessary.
  • Accountable for working with regulatory regional leads, other functions, and vendors to ensure global regulatory submissions are provided in compliance with local regulations. And to maintain compliance for products.
  • Oversee vendor responsibility for regulatory activities and submissions related to projects within scope.
  • Monitor and anticipate trends that impact both the regulatory and access environments to strengthen product development plan(s) and adopt regulatory strategies in a timely manner.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

  • MD, PhD or PharmD in a scientific discipline preferred along with 15+ years of e

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