About This Role:
As a Senior Pharmacovigilance (PV) Scientist, you will play a pivotal role within the Safety team, serving as a product lead for Pharmacovigilance activities. You will be responsible for overseeing and leading safety signal management processes, aggregate reports, and responding to safety inquiries from both internal and external stakeholders. Your expertise will be crucial in reviewing medical and scientific literature for safety information and supporting Clinical Trial PV medical activities. You may collaborate closely with the Associate Director/Director to hire, train, mentor, and manage staff focused on specific products. As a Subject Matter Expert, you will guide Safety and cross-functional teams on global safety regulations, data analyses, and product-specific information. Your contributions will ensure that clinical trials maintain good standing internationally, and that marketed products retain marketing authorization.
What You’ll Do:
- Conduct ongoing safety data reviews and signal detection activities as part of routine pharmacovigilance oversight.
- Lead signal management activities for assigned products, including detection, tracking, documentation, evaluation, authoring signal evaluation reports, and leading Safety Signaling Team meetings.
- Manage literature review activities to identify and assess relevant safety information.
- Oversee aggregate report management, including strategy, review, and finalization of PSURs, DSURs, RMPs, and related safety documents.
- Prepare clear, scientifically robust responses to safety questions from regulatory authorities.
- Collaborate with Global Safety Officers and Safety MDs to support investigational programmes, clinical trial activities, and safety committee management.
- Manage ad hoc safety data analyses and information requests, ensuring timely and accurate outputs.
Who You Are:
You possess a deep understanding of pharmacovigilance with an ability to interpret and communicate scientific and medical data effectively. You thrive in collaborative environments, demonstrating leadership and clinical judgment to navigate complex safety data and regulations. Your strong organizational skills enable you to prioritize tasks independently, ensuring that safety processes are managed efficiently and effectively. You are committed to maintaining high standards and ensuring the integrity of clinical trials and marketed products.
Required Skills:
- Advanced degree (PhD, MPH, NP, PharmD, etc.) required.
- Significant years of pharmacovigilance experience, including aggregate safety reports and safety signal management.
- Proficiency in interpreting, analyzing, and presenting scientific and medical data.
- Strong foundation in pharmacovigilance and drug development, including clinical trial and post-marketing safety regulations.
- Basic knowledge of common data processing software (Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Business Objects) and safety database systems.
- Demonstrated leadership and collaborative skills within team environments.
Preferred Skills:
- Expertise in global safety regulations and guidelines.
- Experience in mentoring and managing staff within pharmacovigilance settings.
- Ability to apply clinical judgment in safety data interpretation.
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about Biogen.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
Skills Required
- Advanced degree such as PhD, MPH, NP, PharmD, or equivalent
- Significant pharmacovigilance experience, including aggregate safety reports and safety signal management
- Ability to interpret, analyze, and present scientific and medical data
- Strong foundation in pharmacovigilance and drug development, including clinical trial and post-marketing safety regulations
- Basic knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Business Objects, and safety database systems
- Demonstrated leadership and collaboration skills in team environments
- Expertise in global safety regulations and guidelines
- Experience mentoring and managing staff in pharmacovigilance settings
- Ability to apply clinical judgment to safety data interpretation
Biogen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive and often perceived as fair across roles, with total compensation framed as strong when bonus and equity are included. Compensation sentiment is described as above-average overall, though it varies by function and business cycle.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs are repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful part of the total package, including stock programs and an employee stock purchase plan. Equity and bonus elements are portrayed as important contributors to feeling well rewarded beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are described as distinctive, including a year-end shutdown and a paid sabbatical after extended tenure. Vacation, holidays, sick time, and personal-significance days are also presented as supportive of work-life needs.
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What We Do
Through cutting-edge science and medicine, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies worldwide for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. Founded in 1978, Biogen is a pioneer in biotechnology and today the Company has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is at the forefront of neurology research for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics. With approximately 7000 people worldwide, we are truly a global organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is also home to our research operations. Our international headquarters are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries. For more information, please visit www.biogen.com. Follow us on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.








