About Summit:
Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life, increasing potential duration of life, and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit, we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission, and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summit’s core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people. Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.
Summit’s team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit’s clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:
Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
HARMONi: Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.
HARMONi-3: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
HARMONi-7: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
Colorectal Cancer (CRC)
HARMONi-GI3: Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.
Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and has additional offices in California, New Jersey, the UK, and Ireland.
Overview of Role:
Reporting to European Regulatory Director, the Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs will support the day-to-day regulatory activities of assigned projects. These assigned projects include support of preparation and compilation of submissions for regulatory agencies, tasked clinical studies, management of regulatory submission processes and timelines, regulatory tracking tools, archives, and infrastructure, as assigned.
The role is primarily home based out of: UK, Ireland or Switzerland
Role and Responsibilities:
- Provide ownership of projects and activities, including clinical trial applications (CTAs) and other European focused MAA pre-submission activities.
- Contribute and drive the regulatory content and strategy for marketing authorization submissions and pre-MAA submissions
- Provide regulatory guidance internally on study-team decisions
- Update study/project teams of regulatory activities in the context of study team management meetings
- Manage and track queries, commitments and submissions with reference to regulatory agencies, collaborate with subject matter experts to provide responses as necessary, provide periodic status updates regarding unfulfilled conditions/commitments
- Collaborate with cross-functional study team for planning of regulatory documents, including health authority meetings such as scientific advice, paediatric and/or orphan designation.
- Contribute to, or lead, internal meetings such as kick off meetings, cross functional project updates
- Manage/Support internal document processes, including reviewed, finalized, signed-off, and archiving
- General support of global / other region regulatory submissions and strategic planning as applicable
- Contribute to / and track regulatory compliance pre and post approval
- All other duties as assigned
Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills:
- BA/BS degree in the biological or health related sciences required, Master’s, PhD or PharmD preferred
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in Regulatory Affairs
- Minimum 7+ years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology or life science industry experience
- Knowledgeable of EMA and European guidance’s, regulations, drug development process, and industry-standard practices
- Possess strong written, oral communications
- Demonstrate proven interpersonal skills and experience working cross-functionally throughout the organization
- Detail-oriented, ability to work proactively, organize, prioritize, and delegate assigned projects
- Experience interacting with CROs e.g. CTAs, Clinical trial activations experience preferred
- Experience of EU/European health authority systems such as IRIS, CTIS is desirable
- Proficient user of standard MS Office suite (e.g., Word, Powerpoint, Excel), experience using electronic document management systems, and document review tools desirable
This is the pay for this position
Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.
Summit does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact Summit’s Talent Acquisition team at [email protected] to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to Summit.
Summit Therapeutics Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in creating and maintaining diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Skills Required
- BA/BS degree in biological or health-related sciences
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in Regulatory Affairs
- Minimum 7+ years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology or life science industry experience
- Knowledgeable of EMA and European regulations
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Detail-oriented with project management skills
What We Do
Summit Mission Statement: To build a viable, long-lasting health care organization that assumes full responsibility for designing, developing, trial execution and enrollment, regulatory submission and approval, as well as successful commercialization of patient, physician, caregiver, and societal-friendly medicinal therapy intended to: improve quality of life, increase potential duration of life, and resolve serious medical healthcare needs. To identify and control promising product candidates based on exceptional scientific development and administrational expertise, develop our products in a rapid, cost-efficient manner, and to engage commercialization and/or development partners when appropriate. We accomplish this by building a team of world class professional scientists and business administrators that apply their experience and knowledge to this mission. Team Summit exists to pose, strategize, and execute a path forward in medicinal therapeutic health care that places Summit in a well-deserved, top market share, leadership position. Team Summit assumes full responsibility for stimulating continuous expansion of knowledge, ability, capability, and well-being for all involved stakeholders and highly-valued shareholders. Summit was founded in 2003 and our shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (symbol ‘SMMT’). We are headquartered in Miami, Florida, and we have additional offices in Palo Alto, California, Princeton, New Jersey, Oxford, UK, and Dublin, Ireland.
