Senior Director, Promotional Regulatory Affairs

Are you ready to set the promotional regulatory strategy for a high-impact portfolio and guide how our science reaches patients and healthcare professionals responsibly?

In this role, you will translate complex FDA standards into clear, decisive direction that enables our brands to move at pace—without compromising on ethics or patient trust.

You will lead a team that partners closely with senior leaders and cross-functional colleagues, ensuring our promotional materials are not only compliant, but also precise, timely, and purposeful. By fusing scientific depth with commercial acumen, you will help operationalize our pipeline today and shape the standards for tomorrow’s launches. Can you anticipate regulatory risk, turn it into practical guidance, and elevate decision-making across the enterprise?

Accountabilities:

• Team Leadership and Development: Manage, develop and lead a team responsible for provision of strategic advice and review of promotional materials across a therapeutic area, ensuring staff development and adherence to established processes.

• Promotional Regulatory Strategy: Set promotional regulatory strategy and priority for the therapeutic area; advise senior leadership on the promotional regulatory impact of business strategy development; provide input to global teams on US promotional impact.

• Material Review Excellence: Oversee efficient regulatory review of promotional materials across all segments and media through the MLR process; liaise with Commercial Operations on MLR governance to drive consistency and speed.

• Senior Counsel and Influence: Advise senior leadership on complex promotional regulatory matters and exert substantial influence internally and externally to align on compliant, high-quality outcomes.

• Process and Guidance Improvement: Drive process improvement and development of PRA guidance and job aids; contribute to PRA initiatives and develop departmental guidance that enables faster, better decisions.

• External Representation: Represent AstraZeneca as a subject matter expert in interactions with regulatory authorities and relevant external forums, strengthening credibility and shaping standards.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Requires a degree in pharmacy, pharmacology, science, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Needs 7+ years in promotional regulatory affairs or FDA advertising/promotion review.

• Requires 10+ years in drug/biologic regulatory affairs or a related pharmaceutical/biotech field.

• Experience successfully leading teams, directly or indirectly, and influencing and mentoring others.

• Expert knowledge and application of FDA promotional regulations.

• Ability to successfully engage senior leaders/executive presence.

• Knowledge of drug development process and team collaboration.

• Strong communication, influencing, and analytic skills.

• High ethical standards and compliance.

• Ability to manage projects and workloads independently.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience with VEEVA Promo Mats is preferred.

• Therapeutic area expertise relevant to AstraZeneca.

• Background in pharmaceutical promotional regulatory, compliance, or medical affairs.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here, scientific rigor meets commercial focus to deliver real impact for patients. You will join a fast-moving, trusted environment where leaders remove barriers and empower teams to think big, start small, and scale fast. We bring diverse perspectives together to tackle new challenges with digital and innovative solutions, and we value kindness alongside ambition. Your expertise will help shape how our pipeline becomes practice—advancing standards of care and contributing to better outcomes around the world—while you grow as a strategic leader supported by colleagues who share your purpose.

Call to Action:

Step into a role where your judgment sets the standard and your leadership accelerates impact—share your resume and let’s shape the future of compliant, high-impact promotion together!

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