Pharmacovigilance Medical Safety Officer
Reading (Reading) Project / Product management
Job description
Pharmacovigilance Medical Safety Officer
Based in Reading, Berkshire
About the Opportunity
As a Pharmacovigilance Medical Safety Officer you will be responsible for ensuring all assigned UK and Ireland Sanofi products are acceptably safe by the design, implementation, management and monitoring of a safety benefit-risk strategy that meets Global Pharmacovigilance, local and global regulatory requirements. You will work closely with the Head of Pharmacovigilance for UK and Ireland
Key responsibilities
• This position is responsible for ensuring all assigned UK and Ireland Sanofi products are acceptably safe by the design, implementation, management and monitoring of a safety benefit-risk strategy that meets Global Pharmacovigilance [GPV], local and global regulatory requirements
• To ensure that the MCSH and/or representative QPPV is informed in a timely and accurate fashion of all potential safety, compliance, quality and regulatory issues
• Act as a Deputy Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance to support the UKQPPV in accordance with applicable local regulatory requirements
• To assist and support the MCSH. National Contact Person and/or Pharmacovigilance Managers in managing the department Quality Management System and compliance responsibilities according to applicable regulations
About You
To excel in this role you will need to be/have:
• Qualified medical practitioner or PhD graduate
• Previous work experience in Drug Safety, pharmacovigilance, pharmacy, nursing or clinical experience in medicine
• Sound understanding of the principles of Pharmacovigilance
• Broad Pharmaceutical therapeutic experience is an advantage
• High level of medical competence and industry standards awareness
• Attention to detail and good organisational/analytical skills/time management skills.
• Good communication and presentation skills
About Sanofi
Empower Life Everyday
At Sanofi we work across human health from vaccines to rare diseases, and consumer healthcare. This creates opportunities to work across different areas to build a diverse and exciting career. Sanofi has the capabilities and resources to support your aspirations to fulfill your ambitions and be the best you can be.
Our purpose at Sanofi is to work passionately every day to understand and solve healthcare needs of people across the world. Our ambition is by 2025, to be a top 3 innovative, global and diversified human healthcare company. One that embraces transformative technologies and is focused on its area of excellence, which means we’re not there to try to solve everybody’s problems. We want to focus on those areas where we know we are making a difference.
The values we are live by are teamwork, courage, respect and integrity.
At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.