Vice President (Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety)

Hobson Prior are looking for a Vice President (Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety) for an exciting opportunity to join a top biotechnology organisation on a permanent basis in Stevenage. Our client concentrates on developing pioneering gene therapies to enable people living with chronic diseases live a better life.

Job Responsibilities:

Medical leadership:

• Accountable for the creation and oversight of the Pharmacovigilance department, this will include hiring of staff, and ultimately consolidation of clinical safety databases from multiple CROs to a single vendor.
• Identify and escalate significant issues relating to compliance, budgets, timelines or other issues that jeopardize business objectives.
• To manage pharmacovigilance activities across all clinical studies, in co-operation with external vendors.
• Complete ongoing centralization and standardization of PV activities.
• Develop standardized methods and processes of surveying safety data from clinical trials. Develop core safety information initiative.
• Lead Safety Review Meetings for company products.
• Ensure compliance with GVP, GCP, GMP and all applicable regulations
• Ensure the establishment of monthly safety reporting compliance metrics of individual (e.g. ICSRs, SUSARs, etc.), aggregate, and periodic reports (e.g. DSUR) are 100% compliant both in terms of quality and timelines for in-house and contracted services.
• Develop and maintain SOPs as needed and ensure compliance
• Oversight of safety Vendors.
• All safety CAPAs for audit/ and/or inspection findings & deviations are closed by the due dates.
• Ensuring all critical and major GVP non-compliance issues are put through the CAPA process.

Line management:

• Leadership experience including supervision and mentoring of pharmacovigilance staff.

Any other assigned duties.

Key Skills:

• Have strong organisation, management, teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• To have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You will be excellent clinical judgement and ability to communicate complex clinical issues in a scientifically sound and understandable way.

Requirements:

• You will have previous experience in gene therapy.
• Requires a MD or minimum of 8 years' in the relevant role.
• Have knowledge of relevant FDA guidelines, initiatives and regulations governing both safety reporting and processing for clinical trial environments.

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