Company Overview

Tango Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering novel drug targets and delivering the next generation of precision medicine for the treatment of cancer.

Using an approach that starts and ends with patients, Tango leverages the genetic principle of synthetic lethality to discover and develop therapies that take aim at critical targets in cancer.

This includes expanding the universe of precision oncology targets into novel areas such as tumor suppressor gene loss and their contribution to the ability of cancer cells to evade immune cell killing.

Tango’s labs and offices are currently located at 201 Brookline Avenue, in the Fenway area of Boston. 

Summary

Tango Therapeutics has an exciting new role to join the team as our first Director, Pharmacovigilance Operations. You will be responsible for working with clinical, cross-functional study teams, and third party vendors/CROs to manage and support drug safety and pharmacovigilance operational activities and deliverables across Tango’s clinical development portfolio.  This role will report directly to the Head, Development Operations.

Your role:

• You will serve as the primary pharmacovigilance lead on study teams and liaise with cross functional team members, as well as external vendors and services providers; performing drug safety study start-up, maintenance, and close-out activities
• Participate in authoring, reviewing, and updating of clinical study documents such as: clinical protocols, informed consent forms, investigator brochures, clinical study reports, data management plans, reconciliation guidelines, and safety report forms
• Manage the preparation, revision, and review of safety management plans
• Responsible for pharmacovigilance vendor’s day-to-day case intake, processing, and submission/exchange activities; ensuring high-quality reporting in the safety database and adherence to agreed processing timelines to support compliance in reporting submissions and exchange
• Identify and escalate trends/issues in vendor performance based on routine oversight of vendor’s activities, vendor-generated operational/compliance reports or metrics, and feedback from other functional stakeholders
• Serve as a pharmacovigilance operations subject matter expert (SME) for inspections and audits, and support department/company inspection and audit readiness initiatives
• Lead pharmacovigilance QA activities, including review and tracking of deviation reports, quality events, and corrective and preventative actions (CAPAs)
• Ensure set-up and maintenance of pharmacovigilance document repositories and document sharing platforms; ensure timely document uploading, filing, and archival to support compliance and inspection readiness
• Maintain the pharmacovigilance deliverables across the portfolio
• Continued process improvement and system implementation related to drug safety signal detection and monitoring
• Additional duties and responsibilities as required

What you bring:

• At least 10 years relevant clinical drug safety/pharmacovigilance experience within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, including 3+ years vendor oversight experience, required
• Bachelor’s Degree in a life-sciences; advanced degree preferred
• Drug safety database (Argus or ARISg) experience required
• Direct experience with Health Authority inspections preferred
• Expert knowledge of global regulatory pharmacovigilance requirements and guidelines (e.g., ICH, FDA, GVP)
• Solid understanding of pharmaceutical drug development process
• Excellent verbal, written communication, and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Good organizational skills and ability to work independently

              We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.