As a general rule, it is always advisable to nominate more than one manager for each submission in IRIS. In this way, the submission will still be visible, and the portal contact can be changed, even if the creator of the submission or one of the managers associated to it leaves the company, or is unavailable.
In addition, a new role of "IRIS Industry Coordinator" will soon be introduced, and made available to be requested in the EMA Account Management System. Users affiliated to an Organisation with this role will be able to see all submissions for all locations of the Organisation, and will be able to assign new Managers (including themselves) to a submission, and to change the submission contact (a.k.a. portal contact, the person that receives IRIS communications by default). The role has just passed the User Acceptance Testing, and should be introduced in production soon. An announcement will be made in the "What's new" Forum, once a beta-test is completed in the production system.
