Senior Manager / Manager Regulatory Affairs

Job Location

JAKARTA GENERAL OFFICE

Job Description

About the Role

Join P&G Personal Healthcare as a Regulatory Affairs Senior Manager for Indonesia/ Philippines, where you will provide senior regulatory leadership for a diverse and complex Personal Healthcare portfolio, spanning   Drugs, Health Supplements, Quasi-Medicines, Cosmetics, Food, and Medical Devices . This role is accountable for shaping regulatory strategies, enabling   timely   market access, ensuring sustained product compliance, and managing regulatory risks across the market.

As the local regulatory expert, you will translate complex and evolving regulatory requirements into strategic business recommendations and lead regulatory decision-making across product development, registration, lifecycle management, artwork and labelling, promotional compliance, and commercialization.

The role requires   a high level   of regulatory mastery, strategic judgment, and external influence. You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders and cross-functional teams, lead complex engagements with health authorities, and proactively shape the regulatory environment through credible, science-based regulatory advocacy.

Where relevant, you will also provide leadership and coaching to Regulatory Affairs professionals and collaborate closely with regional and global teams to ensure local strategies are aligned with broader P&G priorities.

Why Join P&G?

At P&G, we develop trusted brands that improve the lives of consumers around the world. We empower our employees with meaningful responsibility from Day 1, providing opportunities to lead, influence decisions, and grow through challenging assignments.
This role provides:

• Senior ownership of a diverse Personal Healthcare regulatory portfolio in Indonesia.

• Significant influence   on business, innovation, and market access decisions.

• Direct engagement and strategic relationship-building with health authorities and industry stakeholders.

• Regional and global exposure within a leading multinational organization.

• Opportunity to shape regulatory strategies and influence the evolving regulatory environment.

• Leadership responsibility for developing regulatory capability and strengthening organizational effectiveness.

What Success Looks Like
In this role, you will:

• Lead and shape regulatory strategies that enable business growth, innovation, market access, and business continuity.

• Proactively connect regulatory strategies and priorities to business   objectives , commercial targets, and critical deliverables, ensuring regulatory plans directly support the business in achieving its goals.

• Anticipate , influence, and shape the regulatory environment, positioning the business proactively rather than simply responding to requirements.

• Provide authoritative, strategic regulatory counsel on complex, high-impact, and potentially precedent-setting business decisions.

• Deliver   timely   and sustainable regulatory outcomes that support agreed business targets while   maintaining   strong compliance across the portfolio.

• Identify   and escalate regulatory risks, issues, and potential delays early and transparently, ensuring   timely   visibility, clear mitigation plans, and no surprises for business leaders and key stakeholders.

• Build trusted influence and credibility with health authorities, industry associations, senior business leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Anticipate   emerging regulatory risks and opportunities and translate them into clear strategic choices, mitigation plans, and business actions.

• Raise the strategic capability of Regulatory Affairs through coaching, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

• Demonstrate   strong ownership, independent judgment, and leadership in navigating complex regulatory matters while aligning local priorities with regional and global strategies.

Key Responsibilities
Regulatory Strategy & Market Access

• Own and lead comprehensive regulatory strategies for the local Personal Healthcare portfolio, covering new product development, registrations, variations, renewals, line extensions, business continuity, and commercialization.

• Provide expert-level interpretation and strategic application of local regulations across relevant product categories, including OTC drugs, health supplements, quasi-medicines, home remedies, food products, and other applicable categories.

• Translate complex, ambiguous, or evolving regulatory requirements into clear strategic recommendations, risk-based options, and actionable business plans.

• Anticipate   emerging regulatory requirements and assess their implications for innovation, portfolio strategy, supply continuity, claims,   labeling , and commercial plans.

• Challenge conventional approaches and   identify   creative regulatory pathways that   enable innovation while   maintaining   compliance and protecting consumers.

• Act as the senior regulatory advisor to business leaders and cross-functional teams on high-impact regulatory decisions.

• Align local regulatory strategies with regional and global strategies while ensuring they are fit for the local regulatory and business environment.

Product Lifecycle Management & Compliance

• Lead and oversee regulatory submissions and lifecycle activities, including new registrations, variations, renewals, post-approval changes, line extensions, and discontinuations.

• Provide strategic oversight of dossier development, regulatory correspondence, submission quality, approval timelines, and post-approval commitments.

• Lead resolution of complex or precedent-setting regulatory issues and ensure   appropriate escalation   and decision-making.

• Ensure continued compliance of the marketed portfolio with applicable regulatory   requirements.

• Provide   authoritative regulatory guidance on product classification, ingredients, formulations, labelling, artwork, packaging, and other compliance requirements.

• Establish   proactive risk management approaches to   identify , assess, mitigate, and communicate regulatory risks across the portfolio.

• Ensure regulatory documentation, records, and systems are   maintained   to the required standards.

Artwork, Labelling & Promotional Compliance

• Provide expert regulatory leadership on artwork,   labeling , packaging, claims, advertising, and promotional materials.

• Establish   clear regulatory positions for complex or potentially contentious claims and communication requirements.

• Partner with Marketing, Medical, Quality, Legal, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams to develop compliant solutions without unnecessarily constraining business   objectives .

• Resolve complex compliance issues and provide clear recommendations to enable   timely   commercialization.

• Build organizational understanding of local regulatory requirements and emerging compliance expectations.

Regulatory Intelligence & External Engagement

• Maintain   deep and current knowledge of the local regulatory landscape and relevant regional and international developments.

• Lead assessment of regulatory changes and translate their potential impact into portfolio-level strategies, priorities, and action plans.

• Establish   and maintain trusted, credible relationships with health authorities, industry associations, scientific organizations, and other relevant external stakeholders.

• Represent P&G in regulatory discussions and external forums with confidence, credibility, and sound scientific and regulatory judgment.

• Lead regulatory advocacy on priority issues, influencing regulatory implementation, standards, enforcement approaches, and future policy development in support of science-based regulation and responsible industry practices.

• Build coalitions and effectively influence external stakeholders where regulatory changes have significant implications for the business or broader industry.

• Collaborate with regional and glo