Safety Specialist II
Job Description
We are currently seeking a Safety Specialist II to join our growing team. The role will include the following:
Aggregate Reports
- Author and review Aggregate Safety Reports (i.e. DSURs, PBRERs, PSURs, PADERs and Canadian Aggregate Reports) and any other aggregate reports as per requirement of the project.
- Review aggregate safety data from the database and generate line listings (LL) and summary tabulations (ST) and include the LL & ST in the appropriate template.
- Analyze safety and regulatory data provided by the client and prepare complete Aggregate Reports according to the client requirements.
- Perform literature screening for inclusion of significant safety articles in respective section of aggregate reports
- Compile benefit risk evaluation sections provided by medical reviewers, as applicable.
- Ensure you comply with internal and external timelines
- Address comments from internal and external/client reviewer(s)
- Finalize reports as per client requirements
- Participate in internal and external audits and inspections by clients and health authorities.
Signal Management and Risk Management Plans
- Screening, data mining and frequency tabulation for potential signals including signal estimation using appropriate signal detection tool as per the client requirement.
- Generation of line listings and summary tabulations from Argus/client safety database.
- Drafting Signal detection, validation, assessment and benefit-risk analysis and prioritization of signals by reviewing available data.
- Ensuring compliance to appropriate signal SOPs, conventions and guidelines for all activities performed.
- Tracking of identified signals from regulatory and internal signal detection process and monitoring the status of signals: potential signals, open signals, refuted signals and validated signals.
- Developing Risk Management Plans and associated activities as per Navitas Life Sciences/client specific SOPs
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Ability to author and review Aggregate Safety Reports
- PBRER Aggregate Report experience
- Ably assist and support Individual Case Safety Report team as per the workload in respective teams
- Ably Assist and support Literature review team as per the workload in respective teams
- Assist in the scheduling of reports assigned to the team
- Good understanding of medical and Pharmacovigilance terminologies
- Good knowledge of GCP, GVP, ICH, USFDA guidelines and any other pharmacovigilance related guidelines and regulations
- Basic competence with medical and therapeutic terminology.
- Strong understanding of patient safety regulatory obligations.
- Familiar with regulatory and pharmacovigilance guideline
- Good command of written and spoken English; additional languages are favorable
- Good knowledge of usual office software (MS Office: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Soft skills (motivation, strong communication competence, structured in work, organizing skills, reliability commitment and capacity for teamwork)
