New · posted Nov 5
argenx · Biotechnology
Sr. Dir. Regulatory Affairs, Head of Global Labeling and Labeling Operations
- Remote, US
- Remote
- Full-time
- Director
The role
Join us as we transform immunology and deliver medicines that help autoimmune patients get their lives back. argenx is preparing for multi-dimensional expansion to reach more patients through a rich pipeline of differentiated assets, led by VYVGART, our first-in-class neonatal Fc receptor blocker approved for the treatment of gMG, and with the potential to treat patients across dozens of severe autoimmune diseases.
We are building a new kind of biotech company, one that maintains its roots as a science-based start-up and pushes our commitment to innovate across all corners of our business. We strive to inspire and grow our company, our partnerships, our science, and our people, because when we do, we deliver more for patients.
argenx is looking for a Senior Director level Head of Global Labeling and Labeling Operations to lead and evolve its global labeling function in support of the continued development, registration, and successful commercialization of its existing and future marketed products.
Global Labeling Strategy and Lifecycle Management
- Lead the development and maintenance of Company Core Data Sheets (CCDS), US Prescribing Information (USPI), and EU product information, in partnership with regional Regulatory colleagues.
- Establish scientifically substantiated labeling positions for initial registrations, new indications, formulations/product presentations, patient populations, safety updates, and other lifecycle changes.
- Ensure proposed labeling is supported by the totality of available evidence, with clear identification of evidence gaps and potential regulatory challenges.
- Provide strategic oversight of regional and country labeling, ensuring alignment with core labeling while appropriately managing justified local differences.
- Partner with Safety to assess emerging information and ensure appropriate, timely updates to core and local labeling.
- Partner with the Head of US Advertising, Promotion and Strategic Commercialization to ensure a shared understanding of approved labeling, labeling limitations, and implications for compliant claims and communications.
- Lead labeling strategy throughout development, registration, and postapproval lifecycle management.
- Provide strategic guidance on indication wording, patient populations, dosing, limitations of use, safety information, and presentation of clinical study results.
- Partner to develop labeling negotiation strategies, including objectives, evidence-based arguments, alternative wording, fallback positions, and escalation pathways.
- Advise senior leadership on the clinical, patient, regulatory, and business implications of potential labeling outcomes.
- Monitor labeling precedents from key regions (eg US, EU, Japan), competitor labels, and evolving regulatory expectations, translating intelligence into actionable recommendations.
- Evolve the labeling function through the strategic implementation of a Target Product Label (TPL) process across development programs (early to late development) and relevant lifecycle opportunities.
- Evolve the TPL process to maximize ability to identify gaps between desired labeling and available or planned evidence, informing study design, endpoints, analyses, and development decisions.
- Evolve the internal Label Working Group into an effective forum for proactive labeling strategy, integrated scientific assessment, and timely decision-making.
- Establish clear connections between TPL development, core labeling decisions, regional labeling proposals, and health-authority negotiation positions.
- Drive evidence-based resolution of differing views and escalate material strategic issues to the appropriate governance body.
- Provide training and guidance to strengthen labeling capabilities and shared accountability across the organization.
Team Leadership, People Development and Functional Evolution
- Build, lead, and manage the global labeling team, with direct responsibility for internal FTEs and oversight of consultants and external service providers.
- Set clear objectives, responsibilities, and performance expectations; align resources with portfolio priorities and business needs.
- Mentor and coach team members through regular feedback, individual development planning, and opportunities to lead increasingly complex labeling activities.
- Develop scientific, strategic, negotiation, and leadership capabilities within the team; support career development and succession planning.
- Manage consultant scope, deliverables, quality, performance, and knowledge transfer to strengthen internal capabilities.
- Foster a collaborative, accountable environment in which team members constructively challenge assumptions and develop evidence-based solutions.
- Evolve fit-for-purpose labeling processes, systems, standards, and interfaces with labeling operations, regional Regulatory, Safety, and packaging/artwork functions.
- Oversee functional capacity planning, budgets, vendor performance, labeling compliance, and inspection readiness.
What you need
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
This individual is a senior regulatory leader responsible for defining and executing global labeling strategy across the product lifecycle. The role serves as the company’s senior subject-matter expert on labeling strategy, bringing deep experience translating clinical evidence into scientifically substantiated labeling proposals to inform labeling strategy and negotiations with global regulatory agencies, in particular the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The person in this role is a key member of the global regulatory leadership team and partners closely with Clinical Development, Technical Operations/Device, Safety, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Market Access, Legal, and regional Regulatory colleagues. This leader ensures labeling considerations inform development and evidence-generation decisions, supports scientifically sound product differentiation, and maintains consistent, compliant labeling across markets.
The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, including direct responsibility for selected high-priority programs. This individual will lead and develop internal FTEs, manage consultants and external resources, and evolve the labeling function through the strategic implementation of a Target Product Label process and continued development of the internal Label Working Group and Global Labeling Committee.
Desired Skills and Experiencenice to have
- Ideally, a minimum of 15 years of relevant biopharmaceutical industry experience, including substantial Regulatory Affairs experience and at least 7 years focused on labeling strategy.
- Advanced scientific or clinical degree preferred.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in global labeling strategy across development, registration, and postapproval lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated experience personally leading FDA labeling negotiations for original NDA/BLA approvals and/or major supplemental indications.
- Proven ability to interpret clinical efficacy and safety evidence and translate it into defensible labeling positions and successful negotiation strategies.
- Experience developing and maintaining TPLs, CCDS, USPI, and EU product information.
- Strong understanding of FDA labeling requirements and expectations, together with working knowledge of EU and other major-market labeling requirements.
- Demonstrated experience implementing or evolving a TPL process and strengthening cross-functional labeling governance.
- Proven leadership experience managing and developing internal FTEs, overseeing consultants, and operating effectively in a highly matrixed environment.
- Experience building or evolving a labeling function within a rapidly growing biopharmaceutical organization is desirable.
- Experience supporting product launches and major lifecycle milestones; biologics, specialty, or rare disease experience is a plus.
- Excellent executive communication, negotiation, presentation, and cross-functional influencing skills.
- You create a culture of collaboration, excellence, and innovation that inspires team members to perform at their highest abilities.
- You are a connector, building relationships and partnering across the organization to achieve company goals.
- You excel in a fast-paced, results-driven, highly accountable environment.
- You are pragmatic, yet creative and innovative, and lead while “rolling up your sleeves” to get it done.
- You show strong leadership through a proven ability to build, motivate, mentor, and develop a team.
- You resonate with the values of argenx and are ready to drive the company culture.
- You combine strategic thinking with the ability to execute, both individually and through teams, to achieve operational excellence in the face of challenging goals.
Candidates must be based in US (EST time zone), Belgium or Switzerland to be considered for this role.
For applicants in the United States: The annual base salary hiring range for this position is $268,000.00 - $368,500.00 USD. This range reflects our good faith estimate at the time of posting. Individual compensation is determined using objective, inclusive, and job-related criteria such as relevant experience, skills, demonstrated competencies and internal equity. This means actual pay may differ from the posted range when justified by these factors. Because market conditions evolve, pay ranges are reviewed regularly and may be adjusted to remain aligned with external benchmarks. Note: If the posted hiring range does not apply to your work location, the recruiter will share the locally applicable annual base salary hiring range, provided in your country's currency, during the recruitment process. This information will reflect market conditions, role scope, and internal guidelines specific to your location.
This job is eligible to participate in our short-term and long-term incentive programs, subject to the terms and conditions of those plans and applicable policies. It also includes a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to retirement savings plans, health benefits and other benefits subject to the terms of the applicable plans and program guidelines.
What you'll do
The key responsibilities for this individual are
- Define the global labeling vision, priorities, and strategy across development-stage and marketed products.
- Serve as the senior regulatory authority for labeling strategy and lead preparation for and execution of FDA labeling negotiations, in partnership with the US Regulatory Lead.
- Ensure labeling strategies are integrated with global regulatory strategy, clinical development, safety evaluation, commercialization, and lifecycle planning.
- Provide senior leadership with clear recommendations on labeling opportunities, evidence requirements, regulatory risks, and negotiation trade-offs.
- Build and develop a high-performing global labeling organization, with accountability for internal FTEs, consultants, and external service providers.
Pay and benefits
$268,000 – $368,500 a year
Employer providedShort-term incentive program
Long-term incentive program
Retirement savings plans
Health benefits
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At argenx, all applicants are welcomed in an inclusive environment. They will receive equal consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. argenx is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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Job intelligence
The context around this role
Live data · November 5, 2026
Salary intelligence
How the pay compares
This role's midpoint is 55% above the US median for Labeling & Promotion roles at this level.
This roleEmployer provided
Director roles in the US40 roles publishing pay
| Annual base pay | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| This role | $268,000 | — | $368,500 |
| All US (middle half) | $187,500 | $205,500 | $215,875 |
This role: argenx's own published range. Comparisons: the base pay employers published on open Labeling & Promotion roles at the same level on Regulatory Jobs, November 5, 2026. Nothing is estimated.
Career trajectory
Where this role sits in Labeling & Promotion
The general path across 86 open Labeling & Promotion roles on Regulatory Jobs, with the titles they carry most. Not argenx's own promotion track.
Skills DNA
What this role leans on
How many of the posting's 59 duty, requirement and summary lines touch each area. The posting's emphasis, not a proficiency score.
- Regulatory submissions34
- Collaboration and leadership22
- Clinical trial conduct3
- GMP and compliance1
- Data and digital systems1
Regulatory intelligence
The rules, regulations and standards behind this role
The regulations, guidance and standards that govern Labeling & Promotion work in biotechnology, led by the two this posting names, each linked to the agency or standards body that publishes it.
- FDA21 CFR Part 314(official source, opens in a new tab)Applications for FDA approval to market a new drug (NDA and ANDA)Named in the posting
- FDA21 CFR Part 601(official source, opens in a new tab)Licensing of biological products and changes to an approved BLANamed in the posting
- FDA21 CFR Part 201(official source, opens in a new tab)FDA labeling requirements for drugs, including prescribing information
- FDA21 CFR Part 202(official source, opens in a new tab)Prescription drug advertising: fair balance and required information
- FDAFDA OPDP(official source, opens in a new tab)The Office of Prescription Drug Promotion, which reviews advertising and promotion
- FDAFDA prescription drug labeling resources(official source, opens in a new tab)Physician Labeling Rule (PLR) format and content of prescribing information
- EUDirective 2001/83/EC(official source, opens in a new tab)The EU code for medicinal products for human use: authorization, labeling, pharmacovigilance
- FDA21 CFR Parts 600 to 680(official source, opens in a new tab)FDA standards for biological products, from licensing to lot release
- FDAFDA Investigations Operations Manual(official source, opens in a new tab)How FDA investigators plan and conduct inspections
- PMDAJapan PMDA(official source, opens in a new tab)Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency
- FDAFDA Structured Product Labeling(official source, opens in a new tab)The SPL standard for submitting labeling content to FDA
- FDAFDA REMS(official source, opens in a new tab)Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies for drugs with serious safety concerns
- FDA21 CFR 314.70(official source, opens in a new tab)Supplements and other changes to an approved application (post-approval CMC changes)
- FDAFDA eCTD(official source, opens in a new tab)The electronic Common Technical Document format for drug and biologic submissions
- FDA21 CFR 314.80 and 600.80(official source, opens in a new tab)Postmarketing reporting of adverse drug and biologic experiences
- FDADrug Supply Chain Security Act(official source, opens in a new tab)Product tracing, verification and serialization across the US drug supply chain
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Sr. Dir. Regulatory Affairs, Head of Global Labeling and Labeling Operations at argenx
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