Associate Director, Regulatory Advertising and Promotion

• Provide oversight and review of product and disease state education materials for consistency with approved labeling and alignment with applicable FDA regulations and guidances. Provide strategic support to the business and alternative solutions to challenges in order to achieve desired outcomes.
• Member of multi-disciplinary teams such as Copy Clearance Committees, Global Regulatory Teams, Global Labeling Teams; chairperson for Copy Clearance Committee.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of FDA laws, regulations and guidances, as well as the compliance environment as it relates to advertising and promotion of pharmaceutical products and devices. Advise appropriate departments within the company of these requirements. Participate in development of procedures to ensure compliance with these requirements.
• Provide training in FDA regulations for advertising and promotion to employees and agents of Alkermes.
• Participate in efforts to minimize complexity of review processes.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal customers including Marketing, Marketing Operations, Legal, and Medical.
• Serve as primary contact for OPDP for assigned products and ensure timely and accurate submission of product promotional materials to FDA under Form FDA-2253.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs, Advertising, Promotion & Labeling, the Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs, Advertising and Promotion will be responsible for providing sound regulatory advice related to communication of information related to assigned Alkermes products and disease areas. Partners with other personnel in Marketing, Marketing Operations, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, Sales, and Legal Departments in support of initiatives and review of external communications materials. Develops and maintains positive working relationships within and across departments in relation to promotional issues. Communicates with FDA and contributes to health authority negotiations as necessary.

Alkermes has recently adopted a hybrid working environment to support and meet the needs of employees and this role will operate in a flexible environment with 60% of time in the office and 40% from home. This position is eligible for the hybrid workplace model, requiring work to be completed onsite at our Waltham, MA office at least 3 days per week. This role is not eligible for fully remote work.

Why join Team Alkermes?

Alkermes applies its decades of deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we seek to make a meaningful difference in the way people manage their diseases. We have a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder and narcolepsy, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various psychiatric and neurological disorders.

We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations. In 2024 and 2025, we were certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and named one of Massachusetts' Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier and recognized as a Best Place to Work in BioPharma by Fortune Magazine.

Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.