If you’ve been job searching or hiring in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry lately, you’ve probably felt it: The market is unusually slow. Fewer openings, longer hiring cycles, more competition, and companies taking weeks (sometimes months) to make decisions they used to make much faster. The slowdown isn’t imaginary and it isn’t driven by one single factor. It’s the result of several forces all hitting the industry at the same time. Some are global. Some are organizati

Not so long ago, working in Regulatory Affairs meant one thing: preparing submissions, tracking approvals, and making sure everything stayed compliant. It was an essential job, but often seen as a “back-office” function, a technical role that ensured the product got to market safely. Fast forward to today, and that definition no longer fits. Regulatory Affairs has evolved into something much broader, much more connected, and let’s be honest, much more complex. The modern Regu

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