Regulatory Scientific Strategy Manager

The Role

Are you ready to make a real impact at the forefront of innovation? We are looking for a Regulatory Scientific Strategy Manager to join our team on a parental leave cover, helping shape the scientific strategies that drive Next Generation Product (NGP) launches, with a focus on oral nicotine delivery (OND) and heated products.

In this role, you’ll be at the heart of cross-functional collaboration, transforming complex scientific data into clear, compelling insights that strengthen regulatory submissions and advance our harm reduction narrative. Your expertise will ensure that robust datasets and actionable strategies are delivered on time, supporting both global product launches and broader organizational goals.

This is more than a role it’s an opportunity to influence global science and regulation while advancing your career in a dynamic FMCG environment. Make your mark, shape strategies, and help deliver innovations that matter.

This role offers the right candidate the opportunity to grow their career, make a meaningful impact, and be part of an inclusive, innovative, global FMCG organization supported by 25,000 employees worldwide.

Principle Accountabilities

• Deep understanding of NGP product categories, global regulations, and required scientific data, focusing on OND and heated products.
• Lead the development and delivery of robust scientific data packages for regulatory submissions and harm reduction engagement, including US Pre-Market Tobacco Applications.
• Excel in cross-functional collaboration, coordinating multiple teams across departments and global locations.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders (Labs, Product Safety, Harm Reduction, Scientific Writers, Consultants, CROs) to define and deliver required scientific data aligned with business plans.
• Manage pre-clinical and clinical projects end-to-end, ensuring timelines, costs, and quality targets are met while mitigating risks and dependencies.
• Generate and maintain datasets and analyses to support regulatory submissions and harm reduction narratives, applying data bridging strategies as new scientific evidence emerges.

Skills and Experience Required

• Strong knowledge of data requirements for global regulatory notifications and dossiers.
• Experience managing projects, programmes, or studies in a relevant industry or subject area.
• Proven ability to build cooperative relationships with diverse stakeholders in collaborative and directive environments.
• Commercial experience negotiating and managing external suppliers.
• Self-motivated, proactive, with excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strategic planning skills.
• Assertive and able to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.