Group PV Head

Major accountabilities:

• End to end management of assigned pharmacovigilance processes across Novartis Divisions -Responsible for ensuring compliance to global regulatory requirements with maximum efficiency -Lead assigned cross functional patient safety projects -Author and maintain procedural documents for assigned processes and drive continuous improvement by alignment of relevant stakeholders globally and locally -Develop and maintain training material and communications for Novartis group and third party associates -Support impact assessments on emerging regulations and ensure ongoing compliance to global regulatory requirements -Lead assigned process improvement initiatives including IT projects/systems (leading enhancements and managing releases) -Analyze the impact of other process and organizational changes -Work in collaboration with other functions to produce compliance reports and complete quality checks to monitor regulatory compliance as well as compliance to internal requirements.
• In the case of any delays, investigate the root cause and develop and implement corrective and preventative actions.
• Measure effectiveness of actions taken -Act as a subject matter expert during audits and inspections (e.g. FDA and EMA), lead the preparation of responses to findings and the development and implementation of corrective and preventative actions.
• Resolve queries from other functions and Country Organizations (COs) related to assigned processes and act as a consultant on regulatory requirements.
• Mentor and train new starters -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)

Essential Requirements:
•Health Care Sciences Professional (Medical background, e.g. Medical Doctor is preferred) degree or equivalent training and experience
•At least 5 years experience in pharmacovigilance
or at least 2 years safety/PV physician, clinical physician, or medical affairs experience
Desirable Requirements:
•Project management skills
•Excellent communications and negotiation (networking) skills
•Safety Science, Medical Science
•AI technic
•Fluent in both written and spoken English
•Fluent in both written and spoken local language

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