Director – Global Patient Safety Planning & Strategy

Reporting to the Senior Director, Planning & Strategy for Regulatory Affairs, Global Patient Safety, and Development Quality (RA, GPS and DQ), the Director will be responsible for 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 of the RA, GPS and DQ functional lines and, as required, facilitates the execution of strategic objectives

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

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

• Support stakeholder management across RA, PA & 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.

• Support headcount planning and evaluating sourcing models/approaches

• Facilitate resource management and review of demand/capacity

• Oversee 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.

• Own key functional meetings, communications, engagement & team events. This 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, PS, 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.

• Enrich the team environment reflective of the values of the Regeneron Way.

Key Internal Interfaces

• Regulatory Affairs, Global Patient Safety, and Development Quality (RA, PS & DQ) Leadership

• Development Services and Operational Excellence (DS&OE) areas

• Regeneron Corporate Communications

• Regeneron Human Resource Business Partners (HRBP)

• Regeneron Talent Acquisition (TA) Team

Competencies and Skills

• Highly organized and detail oriented, while also demonstrating the ability to synthesize information and think strategically

• Self-motivated, flexible, proactive, able to follow through in an ambiguous, fast changing environment, and proven ability to meet deadlines under pressure

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Proven ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization, including senior leadership

• Experience in contributing or leading cross-functional strategic change initiatives

• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork and stakeholder management skills

• Strong presentation skills (written/verbal), including the ability to summarize complex information concisely

• Effective influencing and negotiating skills

• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion

To be considered for this opportunity, you must have the following:

• 10 + years of pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience relevant planning and operations experience in global development area and specific industry experience in managing and providing oversight of a operational and planning team.

• Minimum BA/BS in business, marketing, finance, science/technology, or related field. Advanced Degree is preferred but not required; MS/PhD or MBA with experience working within a science-based organization /function, or in Physical, or Life Sciences.

• Knowledge of pharmaceutical/biotech operations, including drug development, and an understanding of all stages of research drug development.

• Expertise in MS applications including (but not limited to) Teams, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel

• Up to 10% Travel

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