The Role
Oversee pharmacovigilance activities, ensure regulatory compliance, lead projects, manage teams, and foster collaboration across departments to enhance drug safety.
Summary Generated by Built In
Associate Director/Director - Pharmacovigilance Workstream Lead
Job purpose
Main tasks
Workstream Leadership:
Key Performance Indicators
Attainment of yearly goals according to
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Job purpose
- Overseeing the pharmacovigilance activities of a designated workstream or therapeutic area team.
- Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and fostering cross-functional collaboration to enhance drug safety and minimize risks associated with pharmaceutical products.
Main tasks
Workstream Leadership:
- Responsible and accountable for assigned workstream to ensure that overall workstream is within expected costs, resources, timelines and budget and meets expected quality standards according to defined client agreements and expectations.
- Responsible for determining the pharmacovigilance activities scope and objectives, develop project plans and monitor progress.
- Lead in the initial design and configuration of the global pharmacovigilance framework to accommodate a client's strategic needs.
- Lead and manage pharmacovigilance activities within a specific workstream or therapeutic area, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and regulatory standards.
- Responsible for generating accurate and timely reporting of pharmacovigilance activities status to internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and execute strategic plans for pharmacovigilance activities, including signal detection, risk management, case processing, aggregate reporting, and safety surveillance, as well as operational plans for scaling to other geographic and therapeutic areas.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to pharmacovigilance team members, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
Key Performance Indicators
Attainment of yearly goals according to
- Overall responsibility for delivering goals according to client agreement
- Ensures effective and transparent communication and working relationships with client and workstream team members.
- Evaluates and assesses the results of the workstream with review of available metrics and KPIs, resource updates, and budgets.
- Stay abreast of evolving regulatory requirements related to pharmacovigilance and ensure adherence to applicable regulations and guidelines (e.g., FDA, EMA, ICH).
- Collaborate with regulatory affairs teams to coordinate and submit pharmacovigilance-related documentation for regulatory authorities, including periodic safety reports and risk management plans.
- Manage a state of always ready for inspection while participating in ongoing PV inspections and audits.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with other departments such as clinical development, medical affairs, and quality assurance to integrate pharmacovigilance activities into product development and lifecycle management processes.
- Collaborate with external partners, including contract research organizations (CROs) and regulatory agencies, to facilitate pharmacovigilance-related activities and ensure timely execution of deliverables.
- Integrate internal experts, the client and external partners into the pharmacovigilance activities.
- Support audits, inspections and assessments of pharmacovigilance processes and systems to ensure compliance with quality standards and identify opportunities for improvement on behalf of the client
- Support the implementation of corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) as necessary to address findings from audits, inspections, or internal reviews.
- At client and the local regulatory authority
Skills Required
- Experience in pharmacovigilance and drug safety
- Strong knowledge of regulatory compliance in pharmacovigilance
- Leadership experience in managing teams
- Ability to develop strategic plans and project management
- Excellent communication skills
PharmaLex Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about PharmaLex and has not been reviewed or approved by PharmaLex.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — U.S. time off includes more than 15 days of PTO, around 5 sick days, public holidays and floating holidays. These allowances provide meaningful time away from work.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is called out as a competitive element in the U.S. This retirement support is a noted strength of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Maternity and paternity leave are available in the U.S., and the parent company offers family‑building supports such as adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits. These provisions indicate tangible support for caregivers.
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What We Do
PharmaLex is a leading provider of specialized services for the pharma, biotech and medtech industries. We guide you from early strategic planning activities and non-clinical requirements through clinical development, regulatory submission processes and post-approval/maintenance post-launch activities. Our experts use technology enabled solutions to support you through the entire product lifecycle. We deliver exceptional results - going above and beyond the standard to deliver tailor-made solutions worldwide. The PharmaLex Group now has over 3000 employees, with 68 offices in 32 countries and more than 1000 satisfied clients worldwide.
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