Medical Director Pharmacovigilance - München, Deutschland - Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences

Beschreibung

• Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences is hiring entry level candidates for several positions for contract research in Clinical trials of drugs, biologics and medical devices.
• We have a few immediate job opportunities available in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Research field. We work with University hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and recruiting partners.

Job Description

Job Description:

• Support developmental programs, including both early and late stage development as required.
• Responsible for the oversight of signal detection and risk management activities for designated global/regional product(s), together with global safety lead responsibly as appropriate.
• Supporting Therapeutic Lead.
• Line management responsibilities for junior physicians and/or scientists.
• Flexible to support compounds/initiatives outside of primary therapeutic area(s) as directed by business and departmental needs.

Accountabilities:

• Expectation of GSL role for compound(s) both in development and marketed in close association with the TAL.
• Companywide safety expert for his/her compound responsibilities
• Intimate knowledge of safety, including any emerging safety concerns and risk/benefit profile for 'own' compounds with input for other compounds as needed.
• Serving in a leadership capacity for complex and strategically important programs.
• Responsible for development of documents and for negotiation with Regulatory authorities on safety matters involving these compounds. This includes but is not limited to: direct interaction with Regulatory authorities, authorship of safety summaries to support changes to the PI/SmPC, significant contribution to MAAs and NDAs, authorship of Executive Summaries on special safety topics, authorship of Integrated Analyses of Safety (IAS) for CTDs etc.
• Training and mentoring of Pharmacovigilance Physicians and Specialists.

Perform activities required to serve as Global PV physician:

• Review and oversight of safety data, both non-clinical and clinical
• Review and/or sign off of protocols, SAPs, clinical study reports, IBs, IMPD and other documents developed for submission to regulatory authorities
• Interactions with external experts and regulatory agencies and partner/co-development companies
• Review of safety data and participate in dose escalation decisions
• Authorship and sign off of Safety Monitoring Plan/Risk Management Plan
• Lead data analysis and writing of regulatory submission documents, for license application and variation activities and for safety issues and questions from regulators
• Direct the set-up of safety procedures and development of safety exchange agreements for co-development projects
• Maintain professional knowledge and accreditation by active participation in continuing medical education activities

Education, Experience, Knowledge And Skills:

• Knowledge of principles of epidemiology and statistics.
• Critical thinking and analytical skills and ability to make high level decisions
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including ability to present to large internal/external groups
• Good level of computer literacy with Microsoft applications
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in pharmacovigilance, clinical research or clinical development
• 2-3 years clinical experience with patients following post-graduate training with significant knowledge of general medicine

Qualifications

• Knowledge of principles of epidemiology and statistics.

Additional Information

• Good working knowledge of project management activities.
• Interpersonal and professional skills to interact at all levels including senior executives, contractors and colleagues.
• Good written and verbal communication skills and ability to present and critically discuss data in both internal and external discussions.
• Highly organized, with exceptional good analytical and reasoning capability, ability to multi-task and prioritize.
• Thorough knowledge on analytical & numerical skills.