Director, Life Sciences Regulation, Ethics & Regulatory Compliance in London

Location: Birmingham, Leeds, London, Manchester

Business Line: Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

Job Type: Permanent / FTC

Date published: 02-Jan-2026

Throughout the health ecosystem, you’ll find courageous and inspiring people who are committed to driving transformation, advancing health equity, and leading a well-being revolution. Where you find innovators committed to sustainable progress, you’ll find Deloitte’s Life Sciences & Health Care practice. Our leaders work side-by-side to orchestrate and deliver on the business of science and health. We bring trusted, flexible approaches that foster innovation, harness new technologies, and formulate patient-driven strategies to engineer a digitally enabled, equitable future of health – starting today.

We are at a global crossroads as regulators and policymakers bring a wave of new laws and regulations aimed at regulating the therapies and new technologies that will transform our health and well-being. Across life sciences, you’ll find innovators who are developing therapies, treatments, devices, and cures to meet society’s most pressing health challenges and deliver wellness for all. Alongside them, you’ll find our leaders, the professionals of Deloitte’s Life Sciences practice, who are orchestrating and delivering the business of science and health. We help drive impact through deep industry experience and insights; transformative strategies; trusted, flexible approaches; and new technologies. We help accelerate action and create connections that empower a digitally enabled, equitable future of health.

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

Our values guide every decision we make and action we take, leading us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Deloitte’s Ethics, Risk and Compliance practice is formed of a multi-disciplinary team that includes governance, risk and compliance specialists, lawyers, trust & safety professionals, auditors, technologists, and digital regulation and policy experts working in collaboration with specialist teams across Deloitte. Within this, we are looking to grow our healthcare and life science practice with highly motivated and collaborative individuals who will bring an understanding of risk and regulatory compliance issues along with project delivery skills, aimed at defining and delivering bespoke regulatory compliance solutions and building strong & trusted relationships with our target clients.

Our team works with some of the largest and most complex healthcare and life sciences organizations in the world. Successful candidates will demonstrate successful experiences in professional services and evidence ability to invest in relationships and shape opportunities to develop new business.

You’re adaptable and able to understand and assimilate regulatory issues across different types of industries and to develop insights into how these issues might affect different types of businesses and can change direction quickly as industry standards emerge or client priorities change. You take a pragmatic approach to compliance centered on a solid understanding of risk, regulation and compliance in healthcare and life sciences contexts, thus enabling us to provide sound advice to our clients to help them meet the challenges they face and minimize risks in an effective, efficient, and coherent manner.

You’re passionate about technology and innovation, and thoughtful about the drivers for regulatory transformation (chiefly driving increased speed and quality across the regulatory value chain) and the wider regulatory ecosystem in which our clients operate. We encourage an agile approach to working and we expect an individual to work in a way that meets both the needs of the clients, the team, and their personal situation.

• Excellent client relationship skills and experience and a track record of large-scale business development and market-making.
• Extensive background in risk and regulatory topics either in industry or professional services.
• Proven track record of delivering complex projects, often to tight timelines, and meeting scope, budget and quality requirements.
• Strong experience within the Life Sciences industry, with all or some of the following:

• Regulatory operating model transformations
• Regulatory digital transformations / innovations
• Submissions management, labeling, CMC change control and/or LCM processes
• Quality Management Systems
• Understanding of regulatory data and regulatory filing requirements
• Knowledge around generating submissions packages
• Delivered AI/GenAI solutions for regulatory content or regulatory intelligence
• Leading M&A regulatory workstreams (due diligence / separations / integrations)

Open to travel to client sites and/or flex working hours to match client as required by this position. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects. Experience supervising and guiding team members, with coaching/mentoring, objective setting, performance management and career development. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences. Demonstrated experience driving both the sales cycle by taking the lead in framing out client opportunities and leading the pursuit team to create the proposal content for client discussions. Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment. Demonstrated experience with management and delivery of multiple strategic engagements for large global organizations. Foreign language skills and/or proven record of working across/with different geographies.

Individuals should have all or some of the following personal skills:

• Team-working and inclusive working style.
• Innovative in working style and nature.
• Excellent communications skills (including presentations, report and proposal writing).
• Good commercial acumen; confidence in navigating complexity and ambiguity.
• Ability to work as part of a global diverse team in an agile environment.
• Problem solving to help build solutions for clients by applying insight and experience.

In an ever-evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future-proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference.

We provide advisory services across the risk and regulatory landscape to help our clients move beyond simply meeting the minimum compliance standards, to strategically creating a responsible, sustainable future. This includes providing critical insight and advice on the future of regulation to assist our clients in anticipating change and responding with confidence.

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

At Deloitte, you’re surrounded by subject matter experts; industry experts, technology experts, and you can access that knowledge whenever you need to. We have a great culture, and the number of opportunities here mean you can develop as an individual in the direction that suits you best.

You’ll be based in one of our UK offices, with hybrid working. At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritize your wellbeing.

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers.