Director, Medical Reviewer

Lancesoft

Cambridge, MA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$139.86
SKILLS
Alliance/Partner Management, Analysis Skills, Biotech and Pharmaceutical, Clinical Medicine, Coaching, Communication Skills, Computer Skills, Cross-Functional, Customer/Client Research, Detail Oriented, Due Diligence, Healthcare, Healthcare Quality, Industry Standards, Interpersonal Skills, Journalism, Maintain Compliance, Medicine, Mentoring, Multitasking, Onboarding, Pharmacovigilance, Product Marketing, Quality Management, Regulations, Safety Compliance, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Time Management, United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)
LOCATION
Cambridge, MA
POSTED
2 days ago
Job Description:
Objectives/Purpose
  • The Director, Medical Review supports Global Pharmacovigilance with an emphasis on overseeing medical assessment of individual case safety reports from investigational and marketed product across all therapeutic areas.
  • Responsible for overseeing high quality medical assessment of individual case safety reports in the Global Safety Database to ensure compliance with domestic and international regulations.
  • Ensure effective communication with both internal and external stakeholders on individual case safety assessment related issues and prompt response to queries

Accountabilities
  • Oversight of global medical review of individual case safety reports for Client investigational and marketed products from all sources includes but not limited to the following:
  • seriousness criteria confirmation and expectedness/listedness assessment review of the reporter s causality and company causality assessment event confirmation and coding as per convention, analysis of similar events as required, provide sound rationale in Company
  • Comment regarding causality, ensure due diligence in adequate follow-up, and timeliness of expedited reports
  • Collaboration with other PSPV personnel from other functions (AE processors, safety scientists and Global Safety Leads) in evaluating the safety profile of Client products.
  • Establish with alliance partners harmonization and industry standard medical review and case assessment standards
  • Ensure effective communication with both internal and external stakeholders on individual case safety assessment related issues and prompt response to the queries
  • Keep management informed of special concerns and developing safety problems with investigational compounds and marketed products
  • Compliance, consistency and timely medical review
  • Ensures complete and timely medical review to ensure accurate and compliant reporting of ICSRs to regulatory authorities globally within regulatory time frames.
  • Partners with safety operations teams to ensure consistency of work practices and SOPs.
  • Mentoring and training of new and or junior colleagues
  • Work with the Head of Medical Safety Review to implement and augment onboarding and training processes
  • Performs such other duties as requested by management
  • Multi-tasking with the ability to successfully manage multiple critical issues simultaneously Demonstrate integrity
  • Work productively in a high pressure environment
  • Good analytical, judgment critical thinking capabilities to understand/analyze/synthesize and communicate
  • Able to manage both time and priority constraints and to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
  • Attention to details, computer literacy, knowledge of safety database
  • Take initiative in collaboration with management ]
  • Proven ability to work in international environment and with cross-functional teams, with good interpersonal skills / assertiveness / team spirit / coaching skills

Education, Skills:
  • Medical degree required or internationally recognized equivalent.
  • USMLE/ECFMG/COMLEX-USA/FLEX preferred but not required.
  • Minimum 10 years pharmaceutical or health care related industry experience
  • 5 years clinical experience with patients following post-graduate training with significant knowledge of general medicine
  • Minimum 5 years experience in Pharmacovigilance including medical review of individual case safety reports

About the Company

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Lancesoft

We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc). 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

COMPANY SIZE
2,000 to 2,499 employees
INDUSTRY
Staffing/Employment Agencies
FOUNDED
2000
WEBSITE
http://www.lancesoft.com/