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Demonstrates extensive leadership and management capabilities in pharmacovigilance, with a strong focus on process improvement, compliance, and strategic direction. Proven ability to optimize operations and drive organizational performance in complex, cross-functional environments.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Extensive Pharmacovigilance ExperienceProcess Improvement ExpertiseLeadership in PharmacovigilanceProject Management SkillsClinical Trial Practices Knowledge
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Provide strategic leadership for departmental operations and resourcing in a complex cross-functional environment
- Develop and execute strategies for continuous process improvement and organizational performance optimization
- Provide management and strategic direction to business operations/corporate functions
- Participate with senior leadership in developing and authorizing strategic business plans
- Oversee cross-functional activities, projects and initiatives, delivering strategic insights, analyses and recommendations
- Assess compliance with cross-functional processes, systems/applications, training and communications
- Serve as business lead for large, complex, cross-functional process improvement initiatives
- Collaborate with stakeholders, peers and leaders on strategy, execution and communications planning
- Provide administrative oversight including staffing, budgeting, scheduling and long-term planning
- Provide strategic direction through line management of a team
- Oversee recruitment, induction, talent development and staff retention
- Provide ongoing coaching, feedback, performance appraisals, development plans and career coaching
- Develop and implement business plans and forecasts
- Support and drive process and systems optimization activities
- Provide oversight and responses for client or internal process audits and/or CAPAs
- Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement
- Act as an internal transformation consultant for M&A integration activities
Requirements
What you’ll need- Life science graduate, pharmacy, nursing, other healthcare related qualification or experience in pharmacovigilance
- Extensive pharmacovigilance experience
- Experience with process improvement, safety applications and systems
- Demonstrated line management experience
- Extensive leadership experience in pharmacovigilance from a service provider environment
- Experience optimizing processes and managing through to implementation
- Outstanding leadership and management skills
- Advanced skill in process development and improvement, especially as it applies to clinical and post-marketing pharmacovigilance
- Excellent project management skills
- Superior attention to detail, investigative and analytical skills
- Outstanding interpersonal, negotiation and problem solving skills
- Superior computer skills, including an effective understanding of clinical management and pharmacovigilance technology and systems
- Expert understanding of clinical trial practices, processes, regulatory guidelines and directives
- Superior oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing
- Ability to direct and promote teamwork in a multidisciplinary and/or multicultural team setting
- Ability to drive innovation in developing new ideas related to process improvements
- Outstanding organizational, judgment, analytical, decision-making and interpersonal skills to manage complex projects in parallel and rapidly changing priorities
Benefits
Comp & perks- Remote work options
- Flexible work environment
- Growth opportunities
- Collaborative team environment
- Coaching and feedback
- Formal performance appraisals
- Development plans and career coaching
- Talent development and retention support
- Global, multicultural workplace
- Opportunity to work with experts in clinical research, pharmacovigilance, and quality consulting
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Hard Skills
Process DevelopmentSafety ApplicationsRegulatory Guidelines UnderstandingAnalytical SkillsClinical Management TechnologyPerformance OptimizationBudgetingForecastingCompliance AssessmentM&A Integration
Soft Skills
Outstanding Leadership SkillsInterpersonal SkillsNegotiation SkillsProblem Solving SkillsOrganizational Skills
Tools & Technologies
Pharmacovigilance TechnologyClinical Management Systems
Industry Keywords
Life SciencesHealthcareClinical PharmacovigilanceCross-Functional CollaborationContinuous Improvement