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IQVIA

Runs drug trials and sells health data to pharma

Associate Medical Safety Director-Sponsor Dedicated

Regulatory & Quality (Life Sciences)Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBratislava, SlovakiaRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • A medical degree from an accredited and internationally recognized medical school.
  • Around three years of clinical practice experience with two additional years in the pharmaceutical or associated industry, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and required experience.
  • Knowledge of applicable federal and local regulations and guidelines pertaining to clinical research, including safety, good clinical practice, clinical trials, and the pharmaceutical research process.
  • Maintain knowledge of assigned product portfolio, therapeutic area, and recent literature.
  • Experience in signal detection, aggregate reports, and risk management.
  • Capability to synthesize and critically analyze data from multiple sources and communicate complex clinical issues and analyses orally and in writing.
  • Ability to establish and meet priorities, deadlines, and objectives.
  • Demonstrated skills in contributing to multiple assignments, capacity to work under pressure, initiative and flexibility, and ability to adapt to changing business needs.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers, and clients, including mentorship if needed.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in all aspects of Medical Safety activities according to the scope of work, including providing and maintaining pharmacovigilance and risk management expertise for internal and external stakeholders.
  • Maintain knowledge relevant to allocated product portfolios.
  • Conduct medical evaluation of post-marketing adverse drug reactions.
  • Review and contribute to signal management and benefit-risk evaluation of drugs in clinical trial and post-marketing settings.
  • Prepare and contribute to responses to health authority questions.
  • Review and contribute to periodic aggregate reports.
  • Contribute to safety review of study protocols, investigator brochures, and other reference safety information.
  • Serve as an internal consultant for medical support to pharmacovigilance operations.
  • Provide aggregate reviews of safety information, including clinical data, to maintain oversight of a product’s safety profile.
  • Lead signal detection and analysis, including signal detection strategy, frequency, and timing; review Signal Detection Reports and other data sources as applicable; raise potential signals for team discussion; and contribute to safety analysis reports and presentations of signal evaluation data as appropriate.
  • Provide medical review and contribution to IND Annual Reports, EU Periodic Benefit Risk Evaluation Reports, EU Periodic Safety Update Reports, EU Development Safety Update Reports, and US Periodic Reports.
  • Provide medical review and contribution to Development Risk Management Plans, EU Risk Management Plans, or US Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies.
  • Review and contribute to benefit-risk evaluation of drugs in clinical trial and post-marketing settings.
  • Provide safety oversight and contribute to label development, review, and updates.
  • Provide medical safety contributions to the Integrated Safety Summary or Common Technical Document.
  • Perform medical review and clarification of trial-related adverse events and post-marketing adverse drug reactions, including narrative content, queries, coding, expectedness, seriousness, causality, and company summaries; serve as an internal consultant to pharmacovigilance case-processing teams.
  • Represent safety and clinical data review findings during internal and external stakeholder meetings.
  • Provide medical safety support and contributions, and attend Safety Governance and other meetings as needed.

About the Company

IQVIA

Runs drug trials and sells health data to pharma

IQVIA runs clinical trials for drug, biotech and medical device companies and sells them the health data, software and analytics they use to develop and market treatments. Its research arm designs studies, recruits trial sites and patients, and manages trials through to regulatory filing. Its commercial arm sells market data, consulting and software that pharma sales and marketing teams use to plan product launches. Clients pay through multi-year service contracts and data and software subscriptions. IQVIA was formed in 2016 when clinical research firm Quintiles merged with health data company IMS Health, and it is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Durham, NC
Founded
1998

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