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Job Number #177413 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!
Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
Title Position: Regulatory Affairs Data Specialist (2 year contract)
Location : Piscataway, NJ location
Reports into: Sr. Director Regulatory Affairs
The Regulatory Data Specialist develops digital infrastructure and data pipelines to accelerate
product innovation, development and registrations with targeted support of regulatory
compliance. A core focus of this role is ensuring comprehensive data availability across the
entire lifecycle of our SKUs, enabling seamless traceability from R&D formulation through
commercialization and post-market surveillance. You will work with cross functional teams to
gather, wrangle, cleanse, structure and build data products that support the analytics goals of
Regulatory Affairs, the Global Technology community and the broader organization. Of focus
will be to support the AI infrastructure development and data pipelines to support rapid and
comprehensive Regulatory analysis. By structuring complex product data, you will directly
safeguard our portfolio's compliance with strict North American regulatory frameworks,
including FDA, EPA, and Health Canada mandates. The Data Specialist also builds and maintains
the foundational data analytics infrastructure to improve underlying business processes for cost
savings. You will lead, manage, and mentor others to expand the team’s capabilities and
collective knowledge.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Use SQL and Python to write production-quality code to meet the data
- Support the use of analytics platforms and data science workflows, while
- Architect data models that map the complete SKU lifecycle - capturing raw
guarantee instant data availability for regulatory submissions
- Build and maintain automated ELT pipelines that aggregate the exact data required
regulations, EPA requirements, and state-level mandates)
- Translate business requirements and logic into well-documented data models to
- Collaborate cross functionally to understand and identify problem statements, data
- Engage with Regulatory Affairs to translate complex North American compliance
products, and ensure our AI infrastructure can rapidly conduct comprehensive
regulatory analysis.
- Communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience in a compelling
- Evaluate external partners across different dimensions for analytics initiatives
- Partner with IT to align on data architecture, analytics tools, and other technologies
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Complies with all policies and standards
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors’ Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or Computer Science
- A minimum of 3 years of Data Engineering experience
- High level of Python proficiency
- High level of proficiency with SQL
- Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines
- Strong familiarity with cloud computing platforms
- Strong oral and written English skills
Preferred qualifications include:
- Consumer Goods Proven Experience is preferred
- Understanding of Regulatory environments and regulations for drugs, cosmetics
- Active GitHub account with examples of past work is helpful
- Master’s Degree or Professional Certification in Data Engineering or Cloud
- Proficiency with at least one other programming language in addition to Python
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow
- Familiarity with dbt
- Strong familiarity with SAP S4/ECC tables
- Familiarity with Snowflake or Google Big Query are preferred
- Familiarity with data analytics workflows, objectives, tech stacks, common
We are a results oriented company with a caring culture and work life balance. Apply with us!
Come and join our outstanding team!
Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $86,000.00 - $121,000.00 USD
Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing, and long-term incentives for Executive-level roles.
Benefits: Salaried employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements. Additional benefits include a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours) and 13 paid holidays (vacation days are prorated based on the employee's hire date within the calendar year). Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws. Detailed information regarding paid sick leave entitlements will be provided to employees upon hiring and may be subject to adjustments based on changes in legislation or company policies.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Our journey begins with our people—developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.
Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form should you require accommodation.
For additional Colgate terms and conditions, please click here.
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No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number #177413 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!
Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
Title Position: Regulatory Affairs Data Specialist (2 year contract)
Location : Piscataway, NJ location
Reports into: Sr. Director Regulatory Affairs
The Regulatory Data Specialist develops digital infrastructure and data pipelines to accelerate
product innovation, development and registrations with targeted support of regulatory
compliance. A core focus of this role is ensuring comprehensive data availability across the
entire lifecycle of our SKUs, enabling seamless traceability from R&D formulation through
commercialization and post-market surveillance. You will work with cross functional teams to
gather, wrangle, cleanse, structure and build data products that support the analytics goals of
Regulatory Affairs, the Global Technology community and the broader organization. Of focus
will be to support the AI infrastructure development and data pipelines to support rapid and
comprehensive Regulatory analysis. By structuring complex product data, you will directly
safeguard our portfolio's compliance with strict North American regulatory frameworks,
including FDA, EPA, and Health Canada mandates. The Data Specialist also builds and maintains
the foundational data analytics infrastructure to improve underlying business processes for cost
savings. You will lead, manage, and mentor others to expand the team’s capabilities and
collective knowledge.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Use SQL and Python to write production-quality code to meet the data
- Support the use of analytics platforms and data science workflows, while
- Architect data models that map the complete SKU lifecycle - capturing raw
guarantee instant data availability for regulatory submissions
- Build and maintain automated ELT pipelines that aggregate the exact data required
regulations, EPA requirements, and state-level mandates)
- Translate business requirements and logic into well-documented data models to
- Collaborate cross functionally to understand and identify problem statements, data
- Engage with Regulatory Affairs to translate complex North American compliance
products, and ensure our AI infrastructure can rapidly conduct comprehensive
regulatory analysis.
- Communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience in a compelling
- Evaluate external partners across different dimensions for analytics initiatives
- Partner with IT to align on data architecture, analytics tools, and other technologies
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Complies with all policies and standards
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors’ Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or Computer Science
- A minimum of 3 years of Data Engineering experience
- High level of Python proficiency
- High level of proficiency with SQL
- Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines
- Strong familiarity with cloud computing platforms
- Strong oral and written English skills
Preferred qualifications include:
- Consumer Goods Proven Experience is preferred
- Understanding of Regulatory environments and regulations for drugs, cosmetics
- Active GitHub account with examples of past work is helpful
- Master’s Degree or Professional Certification in Data Engineering or Cloud
- Proficiency with at least one other programming language in addition to Python
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow
- Familiarity with dbt
- Strong familiarity with SAP S4/ECC tables
- Familiarity with Snowflake or Google Big Query are preferred
- Familiarity with data analytics workflows, objectives, tech stacks, common
We are a results oriented company with a caring culture and work life balance. Apply with us!
Come and join our outstanding team!
Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $86,000.00 - $121,000.00 USD
Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing, and long-term incentives for Executive-level roles.
Benefits: Salaried employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements. Additional benefits include a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours) and 13 paid holidays (vacation days are prorated based on the employee's hire date within the calendar year). Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws. Detailed information regarding paid sick leave entitlements will be provided to employees upon hiring and may be subject to adjustments based on changes in legislation or company policies.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Our journey begins with our people—developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.
Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form should you require accommodation.
For additional Colgate terms and conditions, please click here.
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Who's Hiring
- Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences50
- Revolution Medicines21
- AbbVie20
- Abbott8
- Stryker8
Top Industries Hiring
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals59
- Healthcare & Medical Services12
- Medical Devices11
- Consulting & Professional Services9
- Chemicals & Materials7
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in regulatory affairs executive jobs.
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in life sciences, pharmacy, chemistry, or a related field
- Extensive experience managing FDA submissions including INDs, NDAs, BLAs, or 510(k)s
- Demonstrated leadership of regulatory affairs teams across product development lifecycle
- Proficiency with electronic submission systems and Common Technical Document formatting
- Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC) from RAPS preferred or required by many employers
- Experience with international regulatory bodies such as EMA, Health Canada, or PMDA
Tips for Your Regulatory Affairs Executive Job Search
Tailor your resume to submission types
Hiring managers scan for the submission types you've owned, whether NDAs, 510(k)s, BLAs, or MAAs. List each by name in your experience bullets, not just 'regulatory submissions,' so your resume clears ATS filters built around those exact terms.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists regulatory affairs executive openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Highlight cross-functional leadership experience
Regulatory affairs executives are expected to align clinical, legal, and commercial teams. Call out specific examples where you led cross-functional submissions or resolved agency feedback that required coordinating multiple departments, not just your own team's work.
Filter openings by agency scope
FDA-focused roles and EMA or Health Canada roles require different expertise. When searching, use terms like 'FDA regulatory affairs' or 'global regulatory strategy' to surface postings that match your actual agency experience rather than sifting through mismatched listings.
Prepare a submission timeline example for interviews
Interviewers at the executive level routinely ask how you've managed a submission from IND or pre-submission through approval. Have one concrete example ready that covers your role, the timeline, any agency responses you handled, and the outcome.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
At the executive level, the number of therapeutic areas, geographies, and direct reports you oversee shapes your long-term influence. Before accepting an offer, clarify which product lines you'll own and whether your mandate includes global regulatory strategy or only domestic filings.
Regulatory Affairs Executive Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most regulatory affairs executives?
Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences, Revolution Medicines, and AbbVie are hiring the most regulatory affairs executives right now, with openings concentrated in California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially high at mid-to-large pharmaceutical and medical device companies with active product pipelines.
How many regulatory affairs executive jobs are remote?
About 72% of regulatory affairs executive openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the document-intensive and meeting-heavy nature of the role. Positions focused on global regulatory strategy and regulatory operations tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while roles requiring frequent agency meetings or on-site manufacturing oversight are more likely to be in-person.
How do you become a regulatory affairs executive?
Start with a degree in a life science, pharmacy, or engineering field, then build hands-on experience submitting and managing regulatory filings at the associate or specialist level. Progress by owning complete submission cycles, earning your RAC credential, and taking on team leadership responsibilities. Executive roles typically go to candidates who have guided products from development through approval and managed cross-functional regulatory strategy.
Can you get hired as a regulatory affairs executive with limited experience?
Moving directly into an executive regulatory affairs role with limited experience is uncommon because most employers require demonstrated ownership of full submission cycles and team leadership. That said, candidates who have led a major submission as a senior specialist or manager, or who hold an RAC and have managed agency interactions directly, can be competitive for director-level roles that serve as the entry point to executive titles.
What does the regulatory affairs executive interview process look like?
Most processes begin with a recruiter screen focused on submission history and therapeutic area experience, followed by a panel interview with regulatory, clinical, and commercial leaders. Expect at least one case-based discussion where you walk through how you've handled an agency request for information, a complete response letter, or a cross-regional filing strategy. Final rounds often include a presentation on regulatory strategy for a hypothetical or past product.
Where can I find and apply to regulatory affairs executive jobs?
You can find and apply to regulatory affairs executive jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search for roles that match your submission experience, therapeutic area background, and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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