Travere Therapeutics

Associate Director, Project Manager - Regulatory Affairs

Travere Therapeutics$150K — $195K *
US-AnywhereRemote in San Diego, CA
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or related field; MS, Pharm D, PhD preferred.
  • 8+ years of Project Management experience in Biotech or Pharmaceutical industry; regulatory experience preferred.
  • PMP certification strongly preferred.
  • Expertise in timeline development and management software (e.g., Smartsheets, MS Project).
  • Strong understanding of global regulatory affairs for rare disease therapies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead regulatory project management activities aligning deliverables with corporate priorities.
  • Partner with Regulatory Leads to manage Global Regulatory Team operations effectively.
  • Develop and manage integrated regulatory project timelines reflecting global health authority milestones.
  • Oversee planning and execution of major regulatory submissions and maintenance activities.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners to ensure timely execution of regulatory deliverables.
  • Create regulatory dashboards and reports for visibility on project progress and risks.
  • Drive continuous improvement of regulatory processes, tools, and templates to enhance efficiency.

Benefits

  • Premium health and wellness offerings for employees and their dependents.
  • Employee support programs including life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Retirement plans with employer match available.
  • Generous paid time off and work-life balance initiatives.
Full Job Description
Department:
107000 Regulatory

Location:
San Diego, USA- Remote

Position Summary:

The Associate Director, Regulatory Project Manager (RPM) at Travere Therapeutics is responsible for leading and coordinating global regulatory affairs activities to ensure compliance with health authority requirements. This role supports regulatory submissions for investigational and commercial rare disease therapies, facilitates cross-functional collaboration and manages timelines to achieve company objectives in a fast-paced, patient-focused environment.

This position works with the Regulatory Affairs Strategy leaders to create regulatory project timelines and dashboards, schedule cross-functional meetings, and track regulatory commitments.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead regulatory project management activities for one or more global development programs ensuring regulatory plans, timelines, deliverables, and submission activities are aligned with program strategy and corporate priorities.
  • Partner closely with Regulatory Leads to drive Global Regulatory Team meeting operations, including agenda planning, decision tracking, meeting documentation, and follow-up on key actions and commitments.
  • Develop, maintain, and manage integrated regulatory project timelines that reflect global health authority milestones, cross-functional dependencies, submission deliverables, and key decision points across the product lifecycle.
  • Oversee planning and tracking of major regulatory submissions and maintenance activities, including INDs, NDAs, BLAs, supplements, annual reports, DSURs, post-marketing commitments, health authority responses, and other regulatory deliverables.
  • Collaborate with Regulatory Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, CMC, Biostatistics, Medical Writing, Quality, Commercial and external partners/vendors to ensure timely and high-quality execution of regulatory deliverables.
  • Support submission planning and operational readiness by coordinating content planning, submission timelines, document ownership, review cycles, and Vault RIM-related activities in partnership with Regulatory Operations and Regulatory Leads.
  • Create and maintain regulatory dashboards, milestone trackers, and status reports to provide visibility to Regulatory Affairs leadership, program teams, and senior management on progress, risks, issues, and upcoming deliverables.
  • Identify, communicate, and help mitigate regulatory project risks, timeline constraints, resource gaps, and cross-functional dependencies that may impact submission readiness, health authority commitments, or program execution.
  • Support preparation for health authority interactions, advisory committee activities, inspection readiness, audits, and regulatory responses by coordinating timelines, materials, contributors, and action follow-up.
  • Drive continuous improvement of regulatory project management processes, tools, templates, meeting operations, dashboards, and ways of working to improve consistency, efficiency, and scalability across programs.
  • Manage regulatory project documentation and ensure key decisions, action items, timelines, submission plans, and deliverables are appropriately captured, maintained, and accessible in designated systems or repositories.
  • Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to regulatory project management team members and cross-functional partners; may manage direct reports or support resource planning across multiple programs as the function evolves.
  • Additional duties assigned as needed.


Education/Experience Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in related Life Sciences or related discipline required. MS, Pharm D, PhD preferred. Equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience may be considered.
  • 8+ years of Project Management experience in Biotech or Pharmaceutical industry. Regulatory specific project management experience preferred.
  • PMP certification is strongly preferred.
  • Expertise with timeline development and management software required (e.g., Smartsheets, MS Project).


Additional Skills/Experience:
  • The ideal candidate will embody Travere's core values: Courage, Community Spirit, Patient Focus and Teamwork.
  • Driven, intelligent, passionate about making a difference for patients with rare diseases.
  • Strong understanding of global regulatory affairs, submission requirements, and compliance processes for rare disease therapies.
  • Well organized with the ability to multitask, prioritize and manage shifting responsibilities in a dynamic, cross-functional teamwork environment.
  • Excellent project management skills, including scheduling, risk management, and stakeholder coordination in a fast-paced biotech setting.
  • Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills to drive regulatory initiatives aligned with Travere's patient-first mission.
  • Successful record of creating and managing complex project plans, timelines, budgets and critical paths.
  • Ability to adapt to modification and changes to project plans, demonstrating flexibility to implement new strategies and tactics to accommodate these changes.
  • Ability to travel less than 10% domestic and internationally.
  • All positions have an essential job function to be able to perform face to face work with colleagues and/or onsite in San Diego. No role is expected to be 100% remote.


Total Rewards Offerings:
Travere provides comprehensive total rewards offerings that demonstrate our commitment as a diverse, equitable, people-centric, and pay-for-performance organization.

Benefits: Our benefits include premium health, financial, work-life and well-being offerings for eligible employees and dependents, wellness and employee support programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with employer match and generous paid time off.

Compensation: Our competitive compensation package includes a combination of both cash compensation (base pay and short-term incentive) and long-term incentive compensation (company stock), designed to recognize, retain, and reward employees.

Target Base Pay Range:
$150,000.00 - $195,000.00

*This information is current as of the date of this posting and may be modified in the future. Actual pay offered to a candidate will depend on a variety of factors including the candidate's experience, education, skills, and location.

Travere will accept applications on an ongoing basis until a candidate is selected for the position.

About Travere Therapeutics

Travere Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops treatments for rare diseases. The company's products are focused on the treatment of kidney diseases, including focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and Alport syndrome. Travere Therapeutics was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Alameda, California.
Learn more about Travere Therapeutics
Size
300 employees
Market Cap
$1.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$169.4 million
5 Year Trend
+11.2%
Revenue
$198.3 million
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