This is our Regulatory Landscape newsletter for February 2026 with our monthly insights on the evolving market for Regulatory professionals.
The market definitely seems to be improving from last year. For the month of January, there were a whopping 114 new Regulatory positions posted at smaller and mid-sized biopharma companies in the US. This is up 56% from December and up 41% from last January. This is also the highest number of job postings that we’ve seen in January since we started tracking Regulatory job postings in 2020.
61% of these new positions were in Clinical Regulatory Strategy and 20% were in CMC Regulatory, 11% in Regulatory Operations, and 9% were in Advertising, Promotions & Labeling. Roughly 49% of all January Regulatory roles were at Director level and above. There were eight new Regulatory VP/SVP positions posted in January.
41% of the new Regulatory positions in January were listed as Onsite, 36% were posted as Remote and 23% were Hybrid (remote and onsite). 25% of the January Regulatory positions were in California, 34% were in Massachusetts, and 24% were in the NJ/NY/PA area.
There were layoffs announced at 11 biopharma companies in January.
We are currently working on the following searches for our clients:
– Vice President Regulatory Affairs – Boston area
– Vice President Regulatory Affairs – SF Bay area
– Regulatory Affairs Director – SF Bay area
Please consider us for your Regulatory hiring or let us know if you are considering a career change soon.