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Regulatory Affairs

Regulatory Affairs professionals are responsible for ensuring that all documentation relating to the licensing, marketing and legal compliance of pharmaceutical and medical products complies with relevant legislation.  The Regulatory Affirs role requires knowledge of scientific, legal and business issues.

Regulatory affairs officers are the crucial link between their company, its products and regulatory authorities, including the European Medicines Agency, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

A new pharmaceutical product can take many years from inception to launch and a regulatory affairs officer will be involved from the start.  The Regulatory Affairs Officer has very wide ranging responsibilities which include keeping  up to date with international legislation, guidelines and customer practices; collecting, collating and evaluating scientific data; writing applications for new product licences and licence renewals as well as product labels and patient information leaflets; advising colleagues and senior management on regulatory requirements and  liaising and negotiating with regulatory authorities to gain market authorisation for the company’s products.

Skills and Experience required for a craeer in Regulatory Affairs

  • First degree in a life science or other relevant science

  • Higher degree in Regulatory Affairs (e.g. MSc  offered by The Organisation for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs (TOPRA)

  • Detailed understanding of regulatory affairs and the drug development process

  • Knowledge of legislation governing the approval of products

  • Understanding of both legal and scientific issues

  • Ability to assimilate data from a variety of scientific areas

  • Excellent communication skill, both written and oral

  • Experience in Regulatory Affairs, drug development, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, clinical trials or other relevant business area

Salary Levels

Typical starting salaries range from around £20,000 to £27,000 while experienced senior Regulatory Affiars managers/directors can earn £60,000 - £80,000 and above.

Wilmslow

Wilmslow is a small town in Cheshire in the North West region of England.  Wilmslow is located in an affluent area including Mottram St. Andrew and Alderley Edge known locally as the Golden Triangle which is one of the most expensive and desirable places to live in the UK and is favoured by footballers and celebrities.   Once the railways arrived in the Victorian era providing good connections to cities including Manchester, Liverpool and Macclesfield the area became desirable as a place of residence for wealthy North West businessmen.

Local employment is provided at the HQ of clothing giant Umbro, the Information Commissioner’s Office and Alderley Park which is home to the UK’s largest bioscience park and one of three campuses comprising MSP a major provider of support to science and technology companies. 

Wilmslow also offers easy access to great leisure opportunities including the world-famous Manchester United and Manchester City football stadiums, the Peak District National Park and Quarry Bank, a museum of the cotton industry which dominated the area during the Industrial Revolution.

Famous people from Wilmslow:  Alan Turing, mathematician and creator of a machine that cracked the Enigma code during WW2 and Sir Alex Ferguson, Manager of Manchester United for many years.