Executive Director, Global Patient Safety Sciences - Rare Disease
About this opportunity
Build our future together:
The Executive Director, Global Patient Safety Sciences, Rare Disease is the first point of contact for all Rare Disease strategy-related responsibilities across clinical, and post-marketed drugs in the portfolio. As the product subject matter expert (SME) and Therapeutic Area Head (TAH) for the Rare Disease portfolio, this role defines the product safety strategy, establishes the medical safety opinion, and provides the safety scientific POV across both GPS and non-GPS interactions. In addition, the position acts as a trusted advisor to senior management regarding safety strategies/processes while developing organizational objectives and, importantly, understanding the impact of decisions across functional areas. The ED Global Patient Safety Sciences Rare Disease is responsible for the development of their team, which is comprised of GPS Leads. They will serve as a member of the GPS Leadership Team (GPS LT).
When & where:
Work Location: Tarrytown, NY
4 days per week on-site
25% travel may be required
Discover your role:
Contribute senior-level safety expertise to clinical projects across assigned therapeutic area
Act as a resource for medical review for complex ICSRs, and other data sources of assigned compounds and serves as point of escalation for ICSR causality assessments
Provide oversight for safety signal evaluations & deliver clinical interpretation of emerging safety issues
Review benefit-risk assessments (e.g., HHAs) written by Safety Sciences Delivery and recommendations for the product safety profile as appropriate for the stage of the asset lifecycle for safety responses to regulatory agency queries and safety documents (e.g., DSURs, PSURs)
Develop innovative approaches to delivering on core activities that integrate in new technologies, including AI
Governance Leadership
Influence cross-functional leaders to align priorities and drive enterprise results
Approve and provide medical oversight for Risk Management Plans (RMPs)
Approve responses to medical & clinical health authority queries as needed
Oversee cross-functional Safety Monitoring Team (SMT) activities
Represent GPS at cross-functional governance meetings including Regeneron’s Safety Oversight Committee (RSOC), Independent Data Monitoring Committees (IDMC), Strategic Program Team (SPT), and with other parties external to Regeneron (e.g., collaborators)
Talent Development & Organizational Leadership
Build, coach, and scale a high-performing team, and drive succession planning and talent pipelines
Lead talent strategy and leadership development initiatives that strengthen capabilities across the organization.
This role requires:
Minimum M.D., PA, PhD or PharmD Degree; Board Certification or equivalent in relevant clinical specialty preferred; MBA is an advantage
17+ years total experience in PV or relevant clinical experience in the pharmaceutical industry required
6+ years of leading a team and people management experience, added benefit if in a matrixed environment
Preferred 1-3 years of international pharmaceutical activities
Proven track record in developing a deep understanding of the products’ safety profile, supported by in-depth product knowledge to inform safety assessments, risk evaluations, and decision-making
Experience with oversight of strategy within a global patient safety organization
Strong leadership capabilities and presence, interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills organizational and workload planning skills along with the ability to manage multiple different projects simultaneously
Preferred experience with AI technologies
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Salary Range (annually)
$285,600.00 - $475,900.00
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 22 comparable Executive/VP Regulatory Affairs roles across 13 biopharma companies.
Salary context
8 of 22 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 22 comparable roles
Seniority mix
22 of 22 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
3 of 22 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
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How we calculate "similar"
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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.