Head Of Asset Management - Healthcare

We are currently looking for a Head Medicines Evaluation Team 3 to join our Innovative Medicines Function within the Healthcare Quality and Access group. This is a full-time opportunity, on a 12-month fixed term contract basis, until the 1st September 2026. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas. We are open to requests for flexible working. Government departments and agencies are working towards implementing a minimum 60% attendance in office sites. We are currently implementing a flexible, hybrid way of working, with a minimum of 8 days per month working on site to enable the collaboration and contact with partners and stakeholders needed to deliver MHRA business. Attendance on site is driven by business needs so depending on the nature of the role, this can flex up to 12 days a month, with the remainder of time worked either remotely or in the office. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day through the effective regulation of medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research. The objective of the Healthcare Quality and Access (HQA) portfolio is to drive quality and critically appraise benefits and risks across both medicines and medical devices to enable licensing and market access, as well as ensuring compliance with regulations and standards. The Innovative Medicines and Population Health functions deliver a risk appropriate critical appraisal of quality, safety and efficacy of innovative and established medicinal products, determining whether a product’s benefits outweigh the risks. You will provide operational management support to one of the multidisciplinary teams that evaluate marketing authorisation applications and variation applications for chemical new active substances and established medicines. You will guide and direct the team to drive a targeted and risk proportionate evaluation of benefits and risks in the context of the UK healthcare system. Provide leadership and management to the multidisciplinary medicines evaluation team to ensure the quality of assessment decisions to protect public health. As part of the Innovative Medicines and Population Health senior leadership team, contribute to the wider management of the function. Maintain oversight of all scientific and regulatory issues relating to medicines evaluation Contribute to Agency policy, engage with stakeholders and respond to issues and requests that arise. You will provide operational management support to one of the multidisciplinary teams that evaluate marketing authorisation applications and variation applications for chemical new active substances and established medicines. You will guide and direct the team to drive a targeted and risk proportionate evaluation of benefits and risks in the context of the UK healthcare system. Provide leadership and management to the multidisciplinary medicines evaluation team to ensure the quality of assessment decisions to protect public health. As part of the Innovative Medicines and Population Health senior leadership team, contribute to the wider management of the function. Maintain oversight of all scientific and regulatory issues relating to medicines evaluation Contribute to Agency policy, engage with stakeholders and respond to issues and requests that arise. Degree in pharmacy, medicine, or science. Knowledge of relevant national legislation and procedures applicable to the licensing of medicines. Please use Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Alongside your salary of £76,000, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency contributes £22,017 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. Annual Leave: 25 days annual leave on entry, rising by one day for each completed year of service to a maximum of 30 days and pro-rata for part-time staff. PLUS 8 bank holidays Hours of Work: 37 hours (net) per week for full time staff in all geographical locations, including London and pro rata for part-time staff Occupational Sick Pay (OSP): One month full pay/one month half pay on entry, rising by one month for each completed year of service to a maximum of five months full pay/five months half pay Civil Service Pension Scheme. Please see the link for further information For enquiries relating to the Civil Service Pension Schemes please contact MyCSP's Pension Service Centre directly on Flexible working to ensure staff maintain a healthy work-life balance Interest free season ticket loan or bike loan Online application form, including questions based on the Behaviour, Experience and Technical Success Profiles. In the instance that we receive a high number of applications, we will hold an initial sift based on the lead criteria of candidate must have previous experience in one or more of team management, regulatory affairs, research and development, or quality control of medicinal products within academia, the pharmaceutical industry or hospital pharmacy. Plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own. If you require any disability related adjustments at any point during the process, please contact as soon as possible. Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service nationality rules. Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check as well as animal rights and pro-life activism checks. People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks. Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD).