Director Principal Patient Safety Scientist Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Location Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Job ID R-205150

Date posted 02/07/2025

Job Title - Director Principal Patient Safety Scientist

Career Level - F

Location: Bengaluru

Job Description / Capsule

Accountable for the performance and results across a team within the span of Patient Safety deliverables for Marketed Products. Sets team member objectives/plans to ensure the delivery of business objectives. Review and approval of key drug safety documents and act as the drug safety expert within own team.

Typical Accountabilities

• Manages a team of Patient Safety staff locally.
• Develops, or uses expertise to support the development of, strategies and objectives for Patient Safety in area of responsibility, and ensures these are aligned to broader AstraZeneca goals and objectives
• Maintains a high degree of understanding and awareness of internal and external trends influencing the PS domain, and shares this with team members as appropriate
• Builds networks with other teams and external stakeholders to learn about new developments, leverage opportunities and share best practices
• May manage or support projects to improve processes within Patient Safety or develop and introduce new technologies and approaches at the national, regional or global level
• Ensures that own work and work of the team is compliant with Good Clinical and Pharmacovigilance Practice, Safety Health and Environment (SHE) standards and all other relevant internal and external regulations and standards

Accountability for

• Oversight of SSaMT input to projects (technical) as well as line and resource management
• Expected to Deputise for PV science Director as requested
• Line management and team leadership accountabilities
• Recruitment, development, and retention of talent.
• Ensure full implementation of all Patient Safety and GMD strategic change programs in own team.
• Sharing best practice across teams in PS
• Partner with QPPV and QPPV office and PS Risk Management Group
• A key member of the local leadership team; partner with Senior PV Medical Directors
• Lead or be involved in local/global change/improvement project

Typical People Management Responsibility (direct/indirect reports)

The approximate number of people managed in total (all levels) - 10 – 12 Manager of a team

Education, Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Medical degree
• Experience in Patient Safety in the pharmaceutical industry
• Excellent communication skills
• Project management experience
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and developments in the Pharmaceutical industry
• Medical or other life science degree or appropriately qualification as Health Care Professional
• PV Professional (Scientist),
• Experience in either writing Risk Management Plans and assessing risk mitigation activities or in translating preclinical safety experience to man

Desirable

• Ph.D. in a scientific discipline

Date Posted

Closing Date

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