Market Access and Regulatory Affairs Director
About this opportunity
Job Description Summary
Market Access and Regulatory Affairs Director shape the external regulatory environment and drives strategic positioning of the company, leads the development and execution of Regulatory Affairs and Market Access strategies to ensure timely regulatory submissions and approvals, patient access, pricing, and full regulatory compliance across the portfolio.
Act as key external facing leader to shape the healthcare environment, influence policy and strengthen partnerships with government authorities and key stakeholders.
Job Description
Market Access and Regulatory Affairs Director shape the external regulatory environment and drives strategic positioning of the company, leads the development and execution of Regulatory Affairs and Market Access strategies to ensure timely regulatory submissions and approvals, patient access, pricing, and full regulatory compliance across the portfolio.
Act as key external facing leader to shape the healthcare environment, influence policy and strengthen partnerships with government authorities and key stakeholders.
Job Description
Maintains extensive knowledge of product information and regular contact with local, regional, and divisional customers.
Provides a robust framework to oversee the management, compilation, and timely dispatch, submission, and approval of high quality regulatory documentation.
Provides advice to project teams on local regulatory submission requirements.
Stays on the pulse of evolving Health Authority requirements, ensuring Sandoz is influencing and shaping policy in this area and building strategies to proactively prepare the organization for the future.
Drives decisions related to Regulatory and Patient Access strategies at a local level.
Utilizes insights from cross functional teams, market research, and the Regulatory landscape (locally, regionally and globally) to develop and implement high quality Regulatory and Patient Access strategic and operational plans.
Establishes and maintains a strong professional network within the Federal /Regional and local Government authorities, Industry Associations, Healthcare providers, Health Economic organizations and other relevant lobbying and decision-making representatives.
Communicates relevant changes and trends in local regulations, legislation, health policies, and competitor Patient Access activities of new competitors to the cross functional team.
Creates and works with the Region/Franchise to agree Business Cases.
Develops and implements enhanced compliance /process efficiencies to global submission preparation standards, strategies and related procedures/tools.
Ensures global cross-functional business/IT/external partners adopt and adhere to the locally established submission/document standards, and policies.
Oversees the local implementation and optimal use of Regulatory systems and tools.
Ensures compliance with the requirements/guidances from regulatory agencies.
Contributes to and leads to the development of departmental goals and objectives.
Strong leadership capabilities and people management skills.
Establishes and assures adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements.
Minimum Requirements:
Broad experience (>15 years) in Regulatory and Market Access positions supporting biosimilars and/or generics in Turkish Market
Proven ability to develop trust-based relationships with key regional knowledge of reimbursement processes and commercial principles.
Strong communication, negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
English and Turkish (fluent).
Excellent understanding of local dynamics, including regulatory and market environments and pre-launch activities.
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged!
The future is ours to shape!
Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.
The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.
Join Our Sandoz Network
Skills Desired
Clinical Trials, Cross-Functional Teams, Drug Development, Lifesciences, Negotiation Skills, People Management, Problem Solving Skills, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Strategy Execution
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Regulatory Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 72 comparable Director Regulatory Affairs roles across 23 biopharma companies.
Salary context
31 of 72 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.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 72 comparable roles
+ 3 more countries
Seniority mix
72 of 72 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
10 of 72 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
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.
Open in 3 locations
Open in 2 locations
Notify me about similar jobs
Get an email when we spot other openings like this one – same job function, comparable seniority, roles you'd actually want to see.
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.
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.