Overview

In this role you steer the Regulatory Affairs technology agenda, translating business priorities into a digital strategy that accelerates medicine development. You serve as the strategic tech partner to Regulatory Affairs leaders, shaping the portfolio and governance to deliver value, risk-managed delivery, and measurable impact. You will lead a integral program connecting strategy, architecture, and execution to enable regulatory excellence and better patient outcomes. This is a high-impact role in a cross-functional team, offering the opportunity to influence how technology enables faster, smarter regulatory decisions.

Responsabilidades

- Act as primary technology partner to Regulatory Affairs leaders, shaping strategy and digital priorities
- Own the Regulatory Affairs technology portfolio, including governance, processes, metrics, and decision frameworks
- Drive prioritization across initiatives using value, feasibility, impact, and capacity considerations
- Oversee portfolio delivery, ensuring timelines, budgets, quality, and benefits realization
- Lead development of business cases and project plans aligned to the Regulatory Affairs technology roadmap




- Establish transparent reporting using KPIs and actionable portfolio insights
- Anticipate risks, address delivery challenges, and drive timely resolution through stakeholder alignment

Requisitos principales

- 10+ years of experience leading global technology or digital transformation in pharmaceutical or healthcare environments
- Strong expertise in strategic technology partnering and project portfolio management
- In-depth knowledge of software development life cycle and Agile Scrum delivery models
- Proven experience applying artificial intelligence in life sciences, including large language models and retrieval-augmented generation
- Demonstrated success leading complex programs with strong risk management and prioritization skills
- Excellent leadership, analytical thinking, and executive-level communication across technical and non-technical audiences

- leadership
- executive communication
- stakeholder alignment
- strategic technology partnering
- project portfolio management
- software development life cycle

📌 Technology Business Partner Development – Regulatory Affairs (Barcelona)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Barcelona