Manager - Scientific Policy and Intelligence

Description Overview

We are excited to recruit a Manager to join our newly established Scientific Policy & Intelligence (SPI) team. This role can be based in either London or Morristown. In this role, you will provide leadership in advancing Perrigo’s scientific policy and intelligence agenda across the breadth of the portfolio. 

Reporting directly to the Head of Scientific Policy & Intelligence, a member of Perrigo’s Scientific Office Leadership Team, you will work closely with subject matter experts and senior leaders across the organisation. You will provide scientific, regulatory analysis and leadership to shape Perrigo’s response to emerging external developments across assigned categories, portfolios, regions or strategic topics. The role translates complex scientific, regulatory and policy signals into clear, forward-looking insights, strategic recommendations that support responsible self-care, portfolio resilience, compliant delivery and informed enterprise decision-making. 

Operating as a technical leader and senior stakeholder advisor, the role connects individual intelligence updates into integrated view of trends, threats and opportunities for Perrigos ingredients, materials, products and pipelines. It applies strong scientific and critical judgement to anticipate change, solve complex problems and influence decisions with broad business impact.  

The role sets direction, priorities and governance for assigned areas of responsibility, establishing consistent intelligence processes that strengthen organizational readiness and support one scientific office voice. The role leads robust technical analysis and insight that informs strategic decision-making and supports safe, compliant and sustainable products throughout the product lifecycle. 

This is an individual contributor role focused on technical leadership, scientific policy expertise, governance accountability and delivery of outcomes within the assigned remit. It exerts strong matrix leadership across subject matter experts and cross-functional teams, building organizational capability and ensuring coordinated enterprise alignment

Scope of the Role

• Lead policy and intelligence oversight within the assigned regional or topic remit, with a critical focus on interpretation and business impact assessment of emerging scientific, regulatory and policy developments.  
• Support the development of global scientific and regulatory policy positions on key topics in collaboration with internal subject matter experts.  
• Interpret, assess and contextualise regulatory and policy developments relevant to Perrigo’s current and future portfolio, in collaboration with internal subject matter experts.  Undertake trend analysis, landscape mapping, lead the authoring of internal positions, consultation responses and briefing materials to support robust industry input and ensure alignment on topic, priorities and context- particularly on complex material scrutiny related topics.  
• Contribute to cross-functional advocacy strategies by connecting scientific policy and intelligence insights with Government Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Medical, Commercial and Communications priorities.  
• Lead the dissemination of critical information on key policy topics to relevant stakeholders, ensuring awareness, understanding and enabling organisational readiness. 

External Engagement & Trade Association Leadership 

• Represent Perrigo, where aligned to expertise, in key regional industry associations and external policy forums.  
• Maximise Perrigo’s impact in regional associations by leadership or oversight internal inputs and outputs to key regional trade association organisation through engagement with relevant subject matter experts and committee representatives.  
• Provide high-quality input into senior and board-level briefings ahead of key association meetings, translating complex external developments into clear implications, options and recommended actions. 

Governance, Forums  

• Lead key Perrigo scientific and regulatory policy forums, ensuring effective governance, alignment and consistent decision-making across assigned topics and stakeholders.  
• Lead the development and delivery of advocacy training to build internal capability and consistency across the enterprise.  
• Lead the preparation and delivery of structured outputs from policy forums, ensuring clear documentation of discussions, positions and agreed actions. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration  

• Act as a trusted partner to subject matter experts and leaders across Regulatory Affairs, R&D, Medical, Legal, Government Affairs, Commercial, Quality and other relevant functions on policy and intelligence topics within remit. 
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment on emerging risks, policy developments and external trends, ensuring implications are understood and appropriately actioned. 
• Support horizontal topics that span multiple regions, categories or subject areas, ensuring relevant input is gathered and translated into coherent insight. 
• Ensure clear handover and follow-up where intelligence or policy outputs require action by accountable execution teams. 
• Act as a senior expert advisor on strategic and complex policy or intelligence topics, providing clear analysis, options and recommendations

Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Regulatory Affairs or a related field,  significant experience in regulatory affairs, regulatory intelligence, scientific policy or related roles within the consumer health industry. 
• Strong experience across relevant consumer health classifications, including medicines, medical devices, biocides, food supplements and cosmetics, ideally within a global, matrixed environment. 
• Demonstrated experience in external regulatory monitoring, industry association engagement, regulatory advocacy or consultation response development. 
• A strong understanding of global regulatory frameworks, ingredient and material safety standards, policy development processes, external stakeholder environments and the business implications of regulatory change. 
• Proven ability to translate raw intelligence into clear, prioritised and actionable insights, helping stakeholders understand what has changed, why it matters and what action may be required. 
• Strong scientific and critical judgement, with the ability to assess emerging risks and opportunities and make risk-based recommendations that balance regulatory requirements, consumer safety, business continuity, policy direction and portfolio impact. 
• Ability to identify, escalate and document emerging risks that may impact compliance, supply continuity, product strategy or reputation, ensuring clear follow-up with accountable functions. 
• Strong communication and senior-level briefing skills, with the ability to distil complex scientific, regulatory and policy topics into concise, decision-ready messages for senior stakeholders, board-level materials and external engagement. 
• A digital and data-driven mindset, using structured frameworks, digital tools, dashboards and data visualisation to track trends, assess impact and support evidence-based prioritisation. 
• A collaborative leadership style, with the ability to build capability through coaching, prioritisation, feedback and effective matrix leadership across subject matter experts and cross-functional teams.