Country Regulatory Specialist

Country Regulatory Specialist

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
 
Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.
 
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
 
Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing quality deliverables at the country and site level. Follows project

requirements and applicable country rules, with oversight at the project level from the

PL/RL/SAM.

• Expert knowledge of RA/EC processes, requirements, and timelines. Maintain current knowledge

of applicable regulations and guidelines. Identify relevant laws, regulations, and guidance

documents covering pre-and/or post-market requirements.

• Provide country-level SME knowledge at the pre-award stage to support robust business

development presentations based on the project-specific requirements and timelines of the

project.

• Provide country-level SME knowledge during the site-selection process to support the selection of

appropriate sites based on the project-specific requirements and timelines of the project.

• Maintains Intelligence on country specific start up timelines. Provides strategic recommendations

to project teams

• Forecast submission and approval timelines at the project level, track milestone progress in

agreed tracking system, analyze delays, propose mitigation plans, and escalate risks

appropriately.

• prepare and submit Central EC Applications, Local EC Applications, RA Applications, and other

local regulatory authority or hospital approval submissions as required while ensuring compliance

with local regulatory requirements.

• As required by local regulations, prepare ongoing submissions to the applicable authorities for

amendments, periodic notifications required by central and local EC and RA, safety notifications,

and other local regulatory authorities as needed within the country.

• Directly interact with RAs and ECs, identifying solutions when issues arise. Coordinate, contribute

to, and submit RA/EC query responses. When necessary, influence RA/ECs via local CRO

associations.

• Serve as the country-level regulatory SME point of contact through the life of assigned projects.

• Ensure all relevant documents are submitted to the Trial Master File (TMF) in compliance with

SOPs and Customer requirements.

• Serve as country level regulatory SME maintaining country intelligence in regulatory intelligence

systems, contributing and validating information as the scope of the regulatory intelligence system

expands. Completes / contributes to Regulatory Impact Assessments and implements

Operational Actions as regulations change.

• Develop or support the creation of local country regulation training materials.

• When required, provide SME knowledge and support to the Syneos Health Procurement team in

managing Ethics/IRB vendors.

• Ensure continuous improvement of quality in all components at the country level where assigned

(submissions, communication to Competent Authorities and ECs, etc

• Review and comply with applicable Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Work

Instructions (WIs), ensure training compliance, and maintain accurate timesheet reporting.

• Monitor workload/scope, budgeted effort, and project hours; escalate discrepancies in a timely

manner.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description.  The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms.  Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.