Meda Pharma GmbH & Co KG Posted July 9, 2026

Director Global Regulatory Compliance (Process Excellence)

Northern Cross, Ireland Full time
Regulatory Affairs Director

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About this opportunity

Meda Pharma GmbH & Co KG

Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.

We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Director, Regulatory Compliance role will make an impact.

Key responsibilities for this role include:

The Director, Regulatory Compliance will build and lead a newly established Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA) Compliance function, with responsibility for defining, embedding and continuously improving compliance across GRA. The role will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to monitor adherence to regulatory processes, lead audit and inspection readiness and learning, and own the development and evolution of the GRA Quality Management System (QMS).

Compliance

Leadership and oversight on GRA compliance related topics, inspection & audit outcomes and trending.

Provision and as needed escalation of GRA compliance related topics to Senior Leaders

Oversight of authorities’ inspections and internal audits of GRA, incl. outcome & findings monitoring; tracking and monitoring of QE/CAPA related activities for GRA

Strong support in compiling and collecting information being presented to auditors

Close connection to and collaboration with cross-functional teams related to compliance in and outside GRA

Quality Management System (QMS)

Develop and Evolve the GRA Quality Management Systems (QMS), incl. GRA process hierarchy, procedure design, review and approval process, regular risk assessments, maintenance of a GRA Quality Plan, oversight on Management review of systems and a high-level definition of GRA roles and responsibilities

Regulatory Process Adherence Oversight

Oversight of GRA controlled Documents, review and sometimes approval of new GRA procedures

Monitoring process adherence in GRA incl. cross-functional involvement and strategic partnership on all aspects related to regulatory process adherence oversight

Oversight on procedures owned outside GRA but where regulatory is listed in the responsibility section and/or being trained on.

Close collaboration with the extended leadership team on all compliance and process adherence related topics, review and input into curricula and support for evaluation of training needs throughout GRA.

About Your Skills & Experience

Engaged leader with demonstrable experience of effective delivery in a complex matrix and multi-national environment and experienced in audit and inspection conduct in a European Market

Knowledgeable and engaged in all matters related to compliance in the pharmaceutical industry

Collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal and strategic influencing and cross-functional working skills.

Proven ability to partner successfully with other Regulatory functions, Quality, Safety, Medical and other internal stakeholders to achieve objectives.

Benefits at Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:

Excellent career progression opportunities

Work-life balance initiatives

Bonus scheme

Health insurance

Pension

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

A t Viatris, we offer   competitive   salar ies , benefits   and   an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job details

Seniority
Director
Function
Regulatory Affairs
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Northern Cross, Ireland
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Regulatory Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 74 comparable Director Regulatory Affairs roles across 21 biopharma companies.

74Comparable roles tracked
59Currently active
21Companies hiring similar roles
9Countries represented

Salary context

34 of 74 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Peer group range $174,000 – $295,900 (median $244,150)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 74 comparable roles

United States49
Ireland7
United Kingdom7
Poland4
China's Mainland2
Spain2

+ 3 more countries

Seniority mix

74 of 74 peers have a known seniority level

Director60
Senior Director12
Principal2

Therapeutic area mix

9 of 74 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology3
Cardiovascular / CVRM2
Respiratory2
Rare Disease1
Neuroscience1

Similar opportunities

The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

60%similar
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McDermott Laboratories Limited Northern Cross, Ireland Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
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McDermott Laboratories Limited Northern Cross, Ireland Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

60%
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Gilead Sciences Ireland UC · Dublin, Ireland · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
60%
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McDermott Laboratories Limited · Northern Cross, Ireland · Director
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50%
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Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.