Team Lead Regulatory Translations

Oversees the provision of timely, high-quality regulatory translations essential for product registration, maintenance, and launches worldwide.

About the Role

Key Requirements

Team leadership and strategic guidance

• Provides strategic guidance to a team composed of direct reports and vendors, in alignment with regulatory strategies.
• Ensures the selection of qualified talent (team members and vendors) to meet regulatory translation demands.

Compliance and implementation

• Ensures compliance excellence in collaboration with Process Transformation & Learning.
• Implements state-of-the-art technologies to accelerate high-quality translations and facilitate submissions as necessary.
• Updates vendors' or service providers' Statements of Work (SoWs) and supervises the team budget as required.
• Has global financial competence over team activities.

Decision-making and standard practices

• Strategizes, oversees and supervises Regulatory Translation Solution group working practices, business guidance, scope-of-services, vendors' guidance, maintenance of terminological term bases, and the provision of relevant trainings to COs regarding Regulatory Translation Solution group processes as necessary.
• Serves as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for working practices and/or Standard Operating Procedures involving regulatory translations.

Stakeholder communication

• Maintains clear and regular communication channels with key stakeholders.
• Represents the Regulatory Translation Solution group in leadership meetings as required.

This role will be hybrid, requiring 3 days per week in our London office.

Your Experience

• A university degree in a bioscience (e.g., biology, medicine, pharmacy, or biochemistry) or extensive experience in medical/pharmaceutical translation.
• A master’s or PhD in molecular biology or biochemistry is especially preferred.
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken). Proficiency in other languages is desirable but not essential.
• Ideally must have around 8 years + experience in project management, vendor management & translations.
• Leadership experience combined with excellent communication skills, team building, and performance-driven compliance.
• Working knowledge of Regulatory Affairs is desirable.
• Customer-oriented.
• Forward thinker with the ability to embrace new technologies as necessary.
• Strong compliance mindset.

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting, and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.