Medical Safety Specialist

Job Description Summary

Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!

Responsible for the drug surveillance program including the necessary follow-up, risk assessment, and relatedness to product on adverse reaction reports, oversight of safety in clinical trials and post marketing programs. Participates in the resolution of any legal liability and complying with governmental regulations. Provides and contributes trending and safety signal detection and risk management assessment for the products’ life cycle. Provides safety support to the clinical development teams.

Job Description

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Provides support according to the needs for delivery activities, i.e. co-authoring safety documents and assisting in providing safety input to regulatory and clinical documents, as well as ad hoc Health Authority queries.
• Assist in monitoring the safety profile of products including with activities such as literature review, medical review/evaluation of individual cases or signal detection.
• Perform literature review -Provide support for the preparation of ad hoc Health Authority queries for TAs, also in particular for short term notice requests.
• Perform follow up activities on Health Authority Assessment Reports.
• Assist in providing safety input to Regulatory Affairs and clinical documents.
• Support maintenance and management of local deviations -Assist in evaluating and writing other safety deliverables as assigned -Provide support as needed for new indication submission (regulatory document safety input).
• Prepare responses to internal safety requests and contribution to responses to external safety queries.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Medical Operations/ Medical Function -Lead the training and mentoring of junior team members/colleagues -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)
  

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• People Challenges.
• Managing Crises.
• Functional Breadth.
• Collaborating across boundaries.
• Operations Management and Execution.
• Project Management.
  

Skills:

• Clinical Research.
• Clinical Trials.
• Functional Teams.
• Literature Review.
• Medical Records.
• Process Safety.
• Regulatory Compliance.
• Safety Science.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us!

Skills Desired

Clinical Research, Clinical Trials, Functional Teams, Literature Review, Medical Records, Process Safety, Regulatory Compliance, Safety Science