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IQVIA

Runs drug trials and sells health data to pharma

Medical Safety Director

Biology & BiotechConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A medical degree from an accredited and internationally recognized medical school with a curriculum relevant to general medical education is required.
  • Three years of clinical practice experience, such as graduate medical training, and four additional years in the pharmaceutical or associated industry in any role are required, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
  • Knowledge of applicable federal and local regulations and guidelines pertaining to clinical research, including safety and good clinical practice.
  • Knowledge of clinical trials and the pharmaceutical research process.
  • Ability to establish and meet priorities, deadlines, and objectives.
  • Skills in providing consultation and advice on multiple assignments, along with initiative and flexibility.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers, and clients.

Responsibilities

  • Provide medical expertise on pharmacovigilance services to all divisions as requested.
  • Participate in all aspects of Medical Safety involvement on assigned trials and standalone safety projects, with appropriate oversight from management or more senior medical safety directors.
  • Provide global project leadership on projects requiring multiple medical safety advisors and mentor junior medical safety staff.
  • 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.
  • Compose, edit, and medically review Analyses of Similar Events for expedited cases as appropriate based on regulatory requirements.
  • Serve as an internal consultant to pharmacovigilance case-processing teams on supported projects.
  • Provide aggregate reviews of safety information, including clinical data, to maintain oversight of a product’s safety profile.
  • Review coding of adverse events, past medical history, concomitant medications, and other medical data listings to verify and medically vet clinical data.
  • Represent safety and clinical data review findings during client meetings.
  • Provide medical review and edits 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 edits of Development Risk Management Plans, EU Risk Management Plans, and US Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies.
  • Provide medical oversight for label development, review, and change.
  • Provide medical support and attend Data Safety Monitoring Board meetings.
  • Attend and contribute medical safety evaluations to Safety Monitoring Committees.
  • Provide medical safety contributions to the Integrated Safety Summary or Common Technical Document.
  • Provide medical review and edits to Drug Safety Reports or other benefit-risk assessments.
  • Review and sign off on the Project Safety Plan and Medical Monitoring Plan according to the medical safety scope agreed in the contract.
  • Perform Medical Safety review of the protocol, Investigative Drug Brochure, and/or Case Report Forms for appropriate safety content and data capture.
  • Act as Global Safety Physician, Assistant, or Back-up on assigned projects.
  • Serve as Global Lead for medical safety projects requiring a team of medical safety advisors, responsible for project-specific training, operational delivery, project communication, and quality control.
  • Attend project meetings, medical safety team meetings, and client meetings as requested.
  • Ensure coverage for all medical safety deliverables within regulatory or contracted timelines.
  • Provide medical escalation support for medical information projects and EU Qualified Persons for Pharmacovigilance projects.
  • Provide 24-hour medical support as required on assigned projects.
  • Maintain awareness of medical-safety-regulatory industry developments.
  • Participate in reviewing Requests for Proposal, vetting, proposing, and budgeting medical safety services.
  • Attend bid defenses and other client meetings to promote and sell medical safety services.

Desired Qualifications

  • A valid medical license, or equivalent, from the country or region in which the candidate resides and works.

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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