Global Safety Officer, Rare
SanofiAbout the role
Job Title: Global Safety Officer
Location: Morristown, NJ , Cambridge, MA
About the Job
Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.
We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?
Main Responsibilities:
Internal & External Safety Expert with a clear and contemporary understand of Benefit Risk:
Provide PV and risk management expertise to internal and external customers
Safety expert for product must have an attitude of continuous learning and understand the product attributes and science
Maintain knowledge of product, product environment, and recent literature
Maintain expertise in drug safety and PV, and understanding of international safety regulations and guidelines
Lead cross functional Safety Management Teams (SMTs) and GPV 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/requests from health authorities, ethics committees/ IRBs, external partners
Management of product safety alerts
Ensuring the GPV’s position is well articulated to and understood by its internal and external stakeholders
Continued visibility and Establishment of the credibility of GSO role/function and consequently GPV
Signal Detection and Assessment:
Responsible for overseeing from multiple contributors signal detection and analysis
Collaborate with Center of Excellence for Signal Detection and Data Mining and the Safety Epidemiology group
Identify and implement proactive safety analysis strategies to further define the safety as well as Benefit Risk profile.
Lead the review of aggregate safety data and related activities as well as coordinate safety surveillance activities
About You
Qualifications:
Knowledge and Skills
Excellent clinical judgment
Articulate and clearly understood in telephone communications
Capability to synthesize and critically analyze data from multiple sources supported by sound clinical reasoning
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 and with a good sense of Prioritization of business critical deliverables
Demonstrates leadership within cross-functional team environment
Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills are required
Fluency in English (written and spoken).
Formal Education And Experience Required
M.D. Degree or equivalent. (i.e. MB.BS or DO)
MD, Board Certified/Board eligible, or international equivalent, is preferred
M.D., minimum 2-3 years' of unsupervised clinical practice (not residency) and a minimum of 3 years in total experience in international or large market pharmacovigilance, or at least 4 years of clinical development experience
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.
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