Regulatory Landscape Newsletter – October 2025

This is our Regulatory Landscape newsletter for October 2025 with our monthly insights on the evolving market for Regulatory professionals.    For the month of September there were 74 new Regulatory positions posted at smaller and mid-sized biopharma companies in the US. This is down 9.7% from August and down 15% from last September.  61% of[…]

How FDA, NIH, HHS & CDC Layoffs Are Impacting Industry: What the Regulatory Affairs Community is Saying

The regulatory affairs community is facing a new wave of uncertainty following recent layoffs at key federal agencies, including the FDA, NIH, HHS, and CDC. Last week, we surveyed regulatory affairs professionals across the pharmaceutical and biotech industries to assess the impact of these recent layoffs. Our goal was to understand how these changes are[…]

Regulatory Landscape Newsletter – April 2025

This is our Regulatory Landscape newsletter for April 2025 with our monthly insights on the evolving market for Regulatory professionals.    For the month of March there were approximately 86 new Regulatory positions posted at smaller biopharma companies in the US. This is up about 3% from February but down 8.5% from what we saw in[…]

Heading for a shakeup? Regulatory Affairs Career Motivations in 2025

Dennis Partners conducted our latest survey on Regulatory Career Motivations during the week of February 23, 2025. Since the start of The Great Resignation in 2021, employees have continued to reassess their careers, with remote work, compensation, and company culture playing pivotal roles in job decisions. To understand how Regulatory Affairs professionals feel about their[…]

Pay Transparency is Coming: What Employers Should Consider Doing

Pay transparency is coming to the biopharma industry. In fact, there’s already some form of law in place in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, and Washington with new transparency laws enacting in New York on November 1, 2022.  Job boards such as Indeed are seeing an increase in companies sharing salary ranges.  LinkedIn’s latest Workforce Confidence[…]

Hiring Top Candidates in Today’s Competitive Market

In today’s market, it’s incredibly challenging to find the desired Regulatory talent for growing bio/pharma organizations.  We’ve seen companies adjust levels, rapidly promote people, and lower their expectations.  It’s an arduous process but once you finally are ready to make an offer, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get the acceptance.  The biggest challenge is that[…]

5 Simple Ways to Show Appreciation

What’s your reaction when you hear a 5-time Super Bowl winning quarterback state he feels everyone could be more appreciated?  Part of it depends on whether you’re a Patriots fan, but let’s take that out of the equation. As an employer, it hit me like a ton of bricks because Tom Brady is one of[…]

How Leaders Are Empowered by Adversity

Every day we have challenges, some are bigger, some are smaller, and some get to the point where they almost break us, where we feel we can’t take anymore. And yet, that’s where we can experience a fork in the road – one is to crumble and do nothing and the other is to plow[…]

The Power of Communication

When you communicate with someone, what are you thinking about?  Are you thinking about what you want to say or the impact you want to have?  You may feel confident about your message, but will the delivery be received in the manner intended?  Have you considered who your audience is – employees, managers, friends, or[…]

Reflections on Leadership

  The amazing part about leadership is that you can challenge yourself to grow and be better every day. And you can do that easily by leading by example. I am so grateful to work with an amazing group of people.  As their employer, I have a responsibility to provide them with stability, encouragement, growth,[…]