Safety Physician (Client-dedicated), EMEA

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on - now and in the future.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Safety Physician provides medical and operational oversight for end-to-end medical review activities supporting global pharmacovigilance, including individual case safety report (ICSR) medical assessment, submission readiness for high-interest cases, and coding standards oversight. This role helps develop, revise and maintain the ICSR Medical Review process and ensures consistent, timely, and inspection-ready execution aligned with global pharmacovigilance regulations and internal quality standards. This is a highly collaborative, outward-facing role focused on PV quality, ensuring clinically meaningful data collection, and support compliant, inspection-ready pharmacovigilance activities. Partners closely with Benefit Risk and Medical Safety teams, and external vendors/partners working cross-functionally, the role acts as a primary point of contact (PoC) for medical review requirements. Provides subject matter expertise (SME) input to conventions/training, and drives proactive operational leadership, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement for the medical review operating model aligned with departmental and company goals.

A day in the Life:

• Provide medical review and assessment for ICSRs as required, including targeted focus on high interest/priority cases to ensure submission readiness (e.g., completeness, medical coherence, and regulatory compliance).
• Lead assigned supplemental medical review of key cases as needed, ensuring appropriate clinical interpretation, seriousness/expectedness considerations, and consistent medical documentation in the safety database.
• Provide targeted off-line quality control (QC) for medical review and/or case processing, including identification of recurrent issues, root cause analysis, and improvement actions.
• Lead targeted follow-up strategies and engage directly with medical affairs, healthcare professionals and vendors for priority or complex cases to ensure clinically relevant, complete, and submission-ready safety information is obtained in a timely manner.
• Oversee ICSR coding