Global Safety Officer, I&I

Main Responsibilities

Internal & External Safety Expert

• Provide PV and risk management expertise to internal and external customers
• Safety expert for product
• Maintain knowledge of product, product environment, and recent literature
• Maintain PV expertise, and understanding of international safety regulations and guidelines
• Lead cross functional Safety Management Teams (SMTs) and GPE internal Safety Analysis Teams (SATs)
• Communicate with and represent PV position within project/product teams, with external partners, key opinion leaders, and Health Authorities, and during internal and external negotiations
• Provide strategic and proactive safety input into development plans
• Support due diligence activities and pharmacovigilance agreements

Impact

• Ongoing assessment of the safety status of the product
• Review, preparation, contribution and/or approval of clinical development documents including clinical development plans, SAPs, study protocols, investigator brochures, data monitoring plans, study reports, integrated summary of safety, summary of clinical safety, and labeling
• Review, preparation, and/or contribution to questions from health authorities, ethics committees, IRBs, external partners
• Management of product safety alerts
• Ensuring the GPE position is well articulated to and understood by its internal and external customers
• Establishment of credibility of GSO function and of GPE

Signal Detection and Assessment

• Responsible for signal detection and analysis
• Collaborate with Center of Excellence for Signal Detection and Data Mining and Safety Epidemiology group
• Identify and implement proactive safety analysis strategies to further define the safety profile
• Lead aggregate safety data review activities and coordinate safety surveillance activities

Risk Assessment/Risk Management/ Benefit-Risk Assessment

• Provide proactive risk assessment
• Co-lead benefit-risk assessment with other relevant functions
• Develop risk management strategies and plans and monitor effectiveness
• Collaborate with Center of Excellence for Risk Management and Safety Epidemiology

Submission Activities

• Represent safety position in cross functional submission teams
• Ensure generation, consistency, and quality of safety sections in submission documents
• Write responses or contributions to health authorities’ questions
• Support preparation and conduct of Advisory Committee meetings

Report Writing

• Document, coordinate, review and validate Periodic reports, e.g.: RMP update, IND Annual Report, Annual Safety Report/Development Safety Update Report, Periodic Safety Update Report
• Serve as the medical safety expert to the GPE Periodic Reports group for assigned projects and products

About You

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent clinical judgment
• Capability to synthesize and critically analyze data from multiple sources
• Ability to communicate complex clinical issues and analysis orally and in writing
• Able to develop and document sound risk assessment
• Demonstrates initiative and capacity to work under pressure
• Demonstrates leadership within cross-functional team environment
• Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills are required
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Formal Education And Experience Required

• M.D. Degree or equivalent
• For MD, Board Certified/Board eligible, or equivalent, is preferred
• For M.D., minimum 3 years total experience in international pharmacovigilance, or equivalent relevant industry experience (e.g. clinical development) with relevant clinical experience considered
• Exceptionally, candidates may be considered if they have proven excellence in a similar prior position, even if they have less than 3 years international PV experience