Regulatory Affairs Manager (CMC)
About this opportunity
Career Category
Regulatory
Job Description
The RA CMC Manager is responsible for execution and/ or coordination of global regulatory CMC activities, including providing leadership, guidance, and insight to oversee the successful execution and implementation of the regulatory strategy for an assigned set of commercial products. The RA CMC Manager is responsible for communicating the regulatory strategy, risks and issues to Regulatory and Operations senior management. The RA CMC manager coordinates communication, collaboration, and coordination with the site and regional CMC representatives within the department to develop and execute global regulatory activities.
Key Activities
Contributes to product teams and acts as product lead or principal for one or more products. Provides strategic regulatory input and regulatory risk assessments for product teams; executes regulatory strategy with respect to preparation of submissions; complies with critical RA CMC processes; identifies need for process and strategy changes to meet internal Amgen initiatives and changes in external regulatory policy and guidance; reports needs for process changes to CMC systems and contributes to process improvements; incorporates changes in external regulatory guidance into CMC strategy and guidance for product teams; reports issues to RA CMC product team management .
Key Responsibilities Include:
Generate and execute of global and country-specific regulatory strategies
Provide CMC regulatory strategy for assigned projects by defining minimal regulatory filing requirements, submission strategy, and regulatory risk assessments
Develop global dossiers for CMC content for initial submissions, variations and amendments
Support change management activities
Develop response strategy and respond to health authority questions
Liaise with other functions in development, operations and commercial to ensure alignment of global regulatory strategies, timing, execution and supply plans
Liaise with local regulatory teams to align on filing strategy
Monitor and, as necessary, provide data to be entered into tracking systems for department deliverables and ensure information is current. Maintain submission information according to the Regulatory Information Management (RIM) system
Follow established department regulatory processes to ensure cross-product alignment
Knowledge and Skills
CMC- specific regulatory knowledge & experience
Education & Experience (Basic)
Doctorate degree
OR
Master’s degree and 3 years of directly related experience
OR
Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of directly related experience
Experience in manufacture, testing (QC/QA or clinical), or distribution
Regulatory CMC experience
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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 145 comparable Manager Regulatory Affairs roles across 42 biopharma companies.
Salary context
37 of 145 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 145 comparable roles
+ 17 more countries
Seniority mix
145 of 145 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
22 of 145 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.
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.