Global Labeling Associate Director

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As the **Global Labelling Associate Director**, you will provide regulatory labelling expertise, typically for more complex drug projects, to the Global Regulatory Submission Team (GRST)/Global Regulatory Execution Team (GRET), and cross functional Product Labelling Teams (PLT). This role leads the development/implementation of the labelling strategy and maintenance of Core Product Information and United States (US) /European Union (EU) Market Product information (MPI) for assigned AstraZeneca (AZ) marketed or pipeline products. You will be contributing to the Development of the labelling group by sharing knowledge and mentoring peers.

**What you’ll do**
- Ensures that the labelling process is followed through the lifecycle of the product.
- Ensure all work is performed in accordance with established procedures, regulatory requirements and GxPs.
- Interpret regulations, competitor analyses, and anticipating / communicating the wider impacts of the strategy and the long-term consequences for the product and the wider AZ portfolio.
- Lead the PLT in the preparation and updates of high quality Core Prescribing Information, EU Quality review of Documents (QRD), US Prescribing Information (PI), Instructions For Use (IFUs) through to Senior Leader approval with the aim of achieving advantageous labelling.
- Manages the development of labelling negotiation strategies, anticipating HA perspectives.
- Provides labelling expertise to the GRST/GRET/PLT for assigned products regarding language, placement and regulatory content detail for CPI and MPI in line with company procedures, regional labelling regulations and guidances.
- Provides clarity regarding applicable labelling requirements and expectations in sophisticated situations to relevant partners, including risk insight and proposing mitigations
- Evaluates, interprets and communicates global regulations and trends on labelling and any business impact these might have on product labelling
- Ensures appropriate communication across Global Labelling Group sub-functions
- Able to support and communicate the labelling rationale to Senior Leaders to enable effective decision making.

**Minimum Requirements**
- University Degree in Science or related field
- 3 to 5 years pharmaceutical experience, including regulatory experience, preferably working with labelling
- Knowledge of labelling regulations and guidance
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Keen attention to detail and accuracy
- Multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Ability to assimilate clinical and scientific information and present it in a concise manner
- Ability to think strategically, appropriately assess risks and formulate strategies to manage risk

**Preferred**
- Experience in Labelling development and/or maintenance
- Knowledge of major markets Labelling regulations
- Advanced academic training is highly desirable (PharmD, PhD)

**Skills**
- Building Relationships (works well across formal and informal networks)
- Negotiation Skills (good listener; able to build a consensus)
- Critical Information Seeking (works well across formal and informal networks)
- Rational Persuasion (able to distil an issue to its key components and suggest solutions)
- Interpersonal Awareness (aware of how actions impact other people)

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