Associate Pharmacovigilance Specialist

The Associate pharmacovigilance specialist performs pharmacovigilance services such as biomedical literature monitoring and assessing for adverse events reporting, indexing, and abstracting by using broad knowledge of scientific terms and medical terminology, drugs and therapeutic areas, and pharmacovigilance regulations.

About You - Education, Experience, Skills

• Masters Degree in life Sciences, Health, or Biomedical Sciences (Pharmacy, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Biophysics etc.).
• Fresher / Upto 2 years of experience reviewing biomedical literature for adverse event reporting OR equivalent combination of education and experience (i.e., an information science degree with at least 1 year of relevant working knowledge of supporting drug and patient safety)
• Related experience in drug safety/ pharmacovigilance is desirable.
• Strong analytic ability to analyse and summarize the main points of biomedical case reports, studies, or specific topics.
• Working knowledge of biomedical terminology, drugs, and therapeutic areas.
• Experience with commercial and client-specific biomedical literature databases.

It would be great if you also had . . .

• Certification from a professional medical writers association
• Experience with commercial and client-specific biomedical literature databases
• Scientific/medical writing background
• A degree in Dentistry/physiotherapy/Nursing, which involves patient exposure in hospital-based environment, would be an advantage.

What will you be doing in this role?

• Responsible for screening biomedical literature to identify safety information of pharmaceutical products and for assessing adverse events for regulatory reporting in compliance with the pharmacovigilance regulations.
• Conduct regular literature reviews to identify potential adverse events and ensure relevant cases are captured and reported.

Work hours

Regular Working hours is 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM