job title: patient safety - specialist(advanz pharma)

7/6/20252 min read

  • About the Role

    The role of the Medical Office is to bring medical/scientific and drug safety related insights and expertise to ADVANZ PHARMA and to be subject matter experts across the following functional areas: medical affairs, medical compliance, patient safety, clinical development and post marketing research and medical operations. This entails engaging and collaborating with healthcare organizations, healthcare professionals and customers – both internal and external - and generating and communicating relevant, meaningful, and impactful data.

    What You’ll Do:

    • Draft/Review of Periodic Safety Update Reports and Periodic Adverse Drug Experience Reports from a medical standpoint.

    • To prepare Signal reports (including DSR, DEP, SAR as applicable) and managing the compliance and quality of signal detection.

    • Medical writing to support product safety reviews and clinical evaluations.

    • Support if required to draft/review ad hoc safety reports like RMP, CES, HA response in stipulated time frame.

    • Contribute towards continued improvement of safety systems and processes.

    • Oversight of safety related variations and maintenance of product information.

    • Keep abreast of changing PV requirements across Europe and Rest of World.

    • Represent the company during Scientific meetings and Audits and Inspections.

    • Compliance with GPvP requirements, demonstrated through audits and inspections.

    • Support to the business and provision of documentation within agreed timeframes.

    • Successful relationships with all external partners.

    • Address internal and external inspection findings.

    • Ensure all documentation is structured and maintained as required

    • Ensure PV systems are in line with industry standards.

    • Interaction with Regulators, patients and prescribers from a safety perspective if required.

    • Thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and take accountability for results.

    • Embrace challenge and change, applying a growth mindset approach.

    • Have a bias for action and fast decision making.

    • Consistent demonstration and embodiment of company core values: Entrepreneurship, Speed, and Integrity.

    • Drive the spirit of “One Team” by working collaboratively across all business functions with an open, honest, and respectful cooperation.

    • Contribute to making ADVANZ PHARMA a desired place to work.

    About You

    We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are passionate about making a meaningful difference to patients’ lives.

    For this role, you will also have the following:

    Qualifications:

    • Tertiary qualification in any discipline within Life sciences or Pharmacy.

    • Post-graduate qualification (e.g. Masters) in an industry relevant field.

    Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

    • Must have significant experience in Drug safety or Pharmacovigilance in a pharmaceutical company.

    • Proven ability to analyze scientific data.

    • Medical Writing experience (e.g. PSURs, Safety variations, RMPs, Clinical and Non-Clinical components of product dossiers).

    • Experience in Compliance tracking (e.g. PSMF, safety databases) and Pharmacovigilance Audits.

    • Open and adaptable to challenging environments.

    • Ability to work with different Global culture and different time zones.

    • Excellent attention to detail and innovative solution finding ability.

    • Excellent communication skills. Ability to communicate clearly and concisely and use strong writing and verbal skills to communicate facts, figures, and ideas to others.

    • A positive and ‘can-do’ approach, biased towards finding solutions and embracing change.

    • Inspired by our values of entrepreneurship, speed and integrity.

    • Learning agility and ‘scalability’, with a desire to continuously improve and develop as ADVANZ grows.

    • Work collaboratively across all business functions with an open, honest, and respectful cooperation.

    • Ability to have fun and thrive in a growing, unique, and inclusive work environment.