Associate Director, Tax Planning

Associate Director, Tax Planning at Regeneron

The Associate Director, Tax Planning role at Regeneron is crucial for developing, implementing, and maintaining tax planning opportunities across the company's evolving business and supply chain. This highly collaborative position involves extensive interaction with leaders and colleagues from various functional areas to optimize Regeneron’s tax positions, aligning with its expanding global footprint. The role provides critical leadership and support across all aspects of tax planning, including supply chain planning, domestic and international planning and governance, and business development and special projects. You will work closely with internal and external subject matter experts to identify opportunities, execute strategies, and document positions.

The ideal candidate possesses the personal drive and enthusiasm to understand and navigate a fast-growing company within a rapidly evolving marketplace. This role requires a hands-on, entrepreneurial style, assisting the team and managing projects from development through finalization. As a strategic thinker, you will approach challenges with a positive attitude, driving the team towards solutions. This is a visible position with direct contact with Regeneron business leads and senior management.

This role requires 4 days per week onsite at our HQ Campus in Sleepy Hollow, NY. It is not available as a fully remote/hybrid work arrangement.

A Typical Day Might Include:

• Identifying, developing, and implementing tax planning opportunities to support Regeneron’s expanding business and supply chain, including modeling financial impact, leading cross-functional assessment and execution, and identifying risk mitigation strategies.
• Leading tax aspects of supply chain planning, such as optimizing clinical and commercial supply chains, external manufacturing arrangements, and distribution models, while aligning with business needs and considering domestic, foreign income, and indirect taxes.
• Researching, reviewing, and/or drafting documentation for complex tax issues and strategies, including tax technical memoranda, operating manuals, governance policies and reports, and intercompany and third-party agreements.
• Supporting tax-efficient international operations and expansion, including optimizing local tax planning and incentives, and collaborating cross-functional subject matter experts to ensure finance and business goals are met and reporting is accurate.
• Providing end-to-end tax support for Business Development on third-party deals (licenses, collaborations, acquisitions, divestitures, and other agreements), including leading due diligence, developing optimal deal structures, reviewing and negotiating legal documents, and implementation.
• Collaborating closely with internal and external advisors and subject matter experts to ensure tax strategies and implementation consider cross-functional impact and are properly documented (including transfer pricing and tax operations).
• Monitoring U.S. and foreign tax proposals, including OECD BEPS/Pillar Two, working with tax subject matter experts to determine the financial and operational impacts of proposed changes on Regeneron’s tax positions.
• Establishing strong relationships, demonstrating organizational and interpersonal skills to build a collaborative environment, foster open communication, and educate the business on tax considerations.
• Fostering a culture of excellence, integrity, and accountability for a growing team.
• Interfacing and interacting effectively with personnel at all levels of Regeneron’s organization, including senior leadership, finance leaders, collaborators, external advisors, and members of the tax department.

What You Bring:

• Mastery of US tax rules, particularly US international tax rules and mergers and acquisitions.
• Exposure to international supply chain structures, global complexity, and foreign tax rules, including OECD BEPS and other proposals.
• Ability to research and interpret complex US and non-US tax rules.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to plan and execute at strategic and tactical levels.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, effectively relating tax issues to non-tax personnel and upper management.
• Strong creative and analytical thought processes, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with excellent prioritization and organizational skills.
• A confident and personable individual, able to work collaboratively and build bridges at all levels of the enterprise.
• A superior work ethic, positive attitude, and willingness to assist the team in all areas of tax as required by a growing company.
• Dedication to the highest work quality and job excellence.
• Proficiency with MS Office, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience in tax planning and strategy, including experience in a corporate environment in addition to law firm and/or accounting firm experience.
• A J.D., CPA or equivalent required; MBA, LLM or Master’s degree in finance a plus.

Key skills/competency:

• Tax Planning
• US International Tax
• Supply Chain Optimization
• Transfer Pricing
• OECD BEPS
• Business Development Tax
• Mergers & Acquisitions Tax
• Tax Governance
• Financial Modeling
• Cross-functional Collaboration