Senior Professional Regulatory Affairs - Lifecycle Management - Non-Medicinal

Description Overview

We are excited to recruit a Senior Professional Regulatory Affairs - Non-Medicinal Lifecycle Management, you will play a key role in leading the Biocides portfolio delivering Perrigo’s regulatory strategy across the product lifecycle. You will support the development and execution of regulatory strategies, ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality regulatory outcomes across a diverse and complex portfolio. 

You will be responsible for managing lifecycle management activities, overseeing the preparation, submission, and maintenance of regulatory dossier/files in line with global requirements and business priorities. You will proactively identify risks, support mitigation planning, and ensure timely, compliant submissions that help maintain supply continuity, consumer safety, and market access. 

You will provide clear direction, support capability development, and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. You will manage priorities across multiple activities, ensuring effective execution and alignment with departmental and organisational goals. 

Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders—including Quality, Safety, Supply Chain, and R&D—you will contribute regulatory expertise to change management and business initiatives. You will help translate regulatory requirements into practical, actionable plans that support product maintenance, compliance, and portfolio optimisation. 

You will also contribute to the continuous improvement of Regulatory Affairs processes and ways of working, helping to drive efficiency, consistency, and scalability across lifecycle activities. Through your role, you will support Perrigo’s ability to meet evolving regulatory requirements while maintaining high standards of compliance and quality. 

This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within the Regulatory Affairs organisation—supporting product availability and regulatory performance while developing your leadership and technical expertise in a dynamic, global environment. 

Scope of the Role

• Leads complex, high-impact biocidal product lifecycle regulatory projects and workstreams across multiple products, markets, or legal bases, supporting the maintenance of registrations, authorisations, compliance and market access. 
• Provides strategic regulatory leadership for significant biocides lifecycle activities, remediation, and compliance risks, ensuring delivery protects regulatory compliance, product availability and supply continuity. 
• Acts as a recognised subject matter expert, mentors others, and drives governance and continuous improvement within the LCM team. 
• Leads complex biocides lifecycle activities such as product authorisation maintenance, active substance and biocidal product compliance, artwork changes, renewals, notifications, formulation changes, supplier changes, manufacturing site changes, packaging changes, classification updates, safety or efficacy-related changes, remediation, or other high-risk lifecycle activities. 
• Operates with high autonomy and is accountable for recommendations and technical direction on complex topics within delegated authority. 
• Acts as senior individual contributor and mentor, leading cross-functional governance with impact across multiple products or portfolio workstreams. 
• While the primary focus of this role is Biocides, you may need to flex your capabilities to support adjacent non-medicinal classifications, such as medical devices, where needed based on business requirements. 

Strategic Lifecycle Leadership 

• Lead assessment and management of complex and high-risk biocides lifecycle changes across markets, defining data needs, submission strategy, and biocidal product dossier, authorisation file, technical documentation and supporting data package updates. 
• Provide strategic oversight of biocidal product dossiers, authorisation files, technical documentation, supporting data packages and inspection readiness; set and coach high standards for right-first-time quality. 
• Lead complex lifecycle submissions across products and markets, including variations, renewals, remediation, escalated RFIs, and deficiency responses. 
• Approve or recommend change approach and submission strategy within delegated remit and escalate major compliance or supply risks through governance. 

Risk, Governance & Compliance 

• Anticipate and mitigate significant regulatory risks and lead issue resolution for compliance gaps or supply disruption threats. 
• Lead cross-functional risk reviews, remediation planning, and governance forums with Quality, Supply, Safety, R&D, Manufacturing, RegOps, and Cluster RA. 
• Drive cross-functional improvements to lifecycle processes and systems, define implementation steps, and embed standard work. 

Leadership & Influence 

• Act as regulatory lead for complex interactions with competent authorities, national authorities and relevant biocides regulatory bodies, coordinating consistent evidence-based responses. 
• Coach and quality review the work of more junior colleagues and embed Good Documentation Practice within the team. 
• Influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams without formal authority to achieve aligned decisions and timely delivery. 

Experience Required

• Typically 5–8+ years in Regulatory Affairs with proven experience leading complex regulatory projects and authority interactions; global biocides, non-medicinal regulated product, EU/UK BPR, national authorisation, renewal and product maintenance experience preferred; relevant scientific or technical degree preferred. 
• Sustained performance in complex lifecycle roles or similar experience considered. 
• Demonstrated capability in strategic lifecycle thinking, governance, and coaching others.