Senior Manager, North America Regulatory Liaison
About this opportunity
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com
As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.
Job Function:
Regulatory Affairs Group
Job Sub Function:
Regulatory Affairs
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
About Innovative Medicine
Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.
Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.
Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine R&D is recruiting for a Senior Manager, North America Regulatory Liaison. This position is a hybrid role and will be located in Spring House, PA; Titusville, NJ; or Raritan, NJ.
The Senior Manager, North America Regulatory Liaison will serve as a strategic regulatory leader, driving North America regulatory strategy and execution for assigned Immunology projects. This role will partner closely with global and cross-functional leaders to shape development pathways, influence key decisions, and ensure high-quality, timely interactions with Health Authorities. The position will require a strategic mindset, balancing risk mitigation with opportunity maximization to enable successful Immunology product development and lifecycle management.
The Senior Manager, North America Regulatory Liaison, will be responsible for leading the end-to-end planning, coordination and execution of assigned deliverables.
Principal Responsibilities:
Regulatory Strategy & Leadership:
Contribute to and help shape regulatory submission strategies, identifying risks, mitigation plans, and opportunities.
Provide strategic regulatory input into key development documents (e.g., clinical protocols, study reports, summaries).
Apply knowledge of regional and global regulatory frameworks, trends, and requirements across all phases of development.
Submission Planning & Execution:
Lead the planning, preparation, and delivery of regulatory submissions (simple to complex) across the product lifecycle.
Develop and maintain submission delivery timelines, content plans, and execution strategies.
Author and/or critically review submission components, ensuring quality and compliance.
Manage regulatory applications and associated procedures through Health Authority approvals.
Health Authority Engagement:
Serve as primary point of contact with Health Authorities (e.g., FDA).
Lead and coordinate Health Authority interactions, including preparation of briefing materials and responses.
Manage responses to regulatory queries and requests.
Cross-functional Collaboration:
Partner with global regulatory and cross-functional teams to align on submission and interaction plans.
Lead or contribute to cross-functional submission teams to ensure timely and effective execution.
Communicate clear, proactive status updates to stakeholders.
Operational Excellence & Influence:
Identify and drive process improvements, applying critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrate strategic thinking, including contingency planning aligned with business objectives.
Influence decision-making across a matrixed organization.
Representation & Networking:
Represent the company externally with Health Authorities and industry partners, as appropriate.
Build and leverage strategic relationships and networks.
Additional Scope:
May serve as Regional Regulatory Leader for assigned programs.
Qualifications:
A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or technical discipline is required. Advanced degree (Master’s, PharmD, Ph.D.) in a scientific or technical discipline preferred.
A minimum of 8 years of relevant regulatory experience with a Bachelor’s degree; a minimum of 6 years of relevant regulatory experience with a Master’s or PharmD degree; or a minimum of 4 years of relevant regulatory experience with a Ph.D. is required.
Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or OTC industry is required.
Strong knowledge of clinical drug development and regulatory pathways is required.
Experience managing lifecycle submissions (e.g., IND, NDA, CTA, MAA) is required.
Demonstrated experience preparing, reviewing, and delivering regulatory documentation is required.
Proven track record interacting with FDA and other global Health Authorities is required.
Experience in Immunology therapeutic area preferred.
Experience in people management/coaching/mentoring is preferred.
Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Must have strong stakeholder management skills.
Must have the ability to exercise independent judgment in resolving complex regulatory and organizational challenges.
Must have strong leadership capabilities with the ability to work successfully in a matrixed environment.
The ability to effectively prioritize assignments for multiple products and projects simultaneously is required.
The ability to collaborate with all levels and influence decision-making within a cross-functional organization is required.
This position may require up to 10% travel.
Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
#LI-Hybrid
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Analytical Reasoning, Business Writing, Compliance Risk, Fact-Based Decision Making, Industry Analysis, Legal Support, Mentorship, Organizing, Product Licensing, Public Policies, Regulatory Affairs Management, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Development, Regulatory Environment, Risk Assessments, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$137,000.00 - $235,750.00
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
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 164 comparable Manager Regulatory Affairs roles across 51 biopharma companies.
Salary context
51 of 164 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 164 comparable roles
+ 21 more countries
Seniority mix
164 of 164 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
24 of 164 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 4 locations
Open in 4 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.