Senior Pharmacovigilance Associate

Hobson Prior are currently working with one of the world's largest biotech organisations who are looking for a Senior Pharmacovigilance Associate to join them on a 1-year contract in Cambridge.

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintains own current knowledge of and compliance with local safety regulations.
• Maintains awareness of current prescribing information, safety profiles and new risk information for designated companies' products, to support product safety activities.
• Manage business critical "core" safety activities per legal deadlines including intake of AE reports, follow up with HCPs for complete data, ICSR & aggregate safety report submission to regulators.
• Review metrics to monitor MHRA & HPRA submission compliance.
• Represents as the key contact for defined safety activities within the affiliate.
• Collaborate with other affiliate departments including medical and commercial, to provide safety input into cross-functional initiatives. Ensure PV compliance in these initiatives while understanding local business needs.
• Partake in global, regional and country safety meetings to share best practise on areas of technical expertise.
• Delivers safety reporting training for local affiliate staff and external service providers.
• May assist with safety review of local study protocols, market research programs and social media projects.
• Assists safety team during audits and inspections of PV operations.
• Assist Global Safety Manager or Senior Global Safety Manager with provision of safety activities to support the local business; assist with issue resolution where necessary.

Key skills:

• The intention to work cooperatively with team members and those outside the team.
• Ability to analyse problems/issues and determine the most appropriate course of action based on that analysis within defined policies and procedures.
• Customer Service orientated.
• Ability to build and maintain warm relationships with networks of people.

Requirements:

• Graduate with life science or healthcare degree and proven relevant industry experience within pharmacovigilance.
• Understanding of the importance of pharmacovigilance in ethical pharmaceutical marketing and development.
• Use of MS Office products to a competent standard - Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Experience with Safety Databases, particularly ARGUS, would be desirable.

Apply now:

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