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Director/Senior Director, Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety (Safety Scientist)

Boston💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead proactive signal detection, benefit-risk analyses, and safety monitoring/reporting for clinical and marketed products across the full product lifecycle.

Role type

Director/Senior Director, Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety (Safety Scientist)

Builds

Aggregate safety reports (IND/NDA Annual Reports, PADER, DSUR, PSUR, PBRER), safety signal assessment reports, and risk management strategies.

Domain

Biopharmaceuticals / Neuroscience / Drug Safety

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Proactive signal detection, benefit-risk analysis, safety monitoring and reporting, authoring aggregate safety reports, reviewing safety concerns and escalated issues, maintaining safety profiles, analyzing serious events of interest, preparing safety data for governance, developing risk management strategies, reviewing clinical study documents (protocols, ICF, CSR), writing SOPs, audit preparedness

Preferred skills

Master's degree, management experience in pharma/biotech

Technologies

Global drug safety regulations and guidelines (ICH, FDA, EMA)

Responsibilities

Lead proactive signal detection and benefit-risk analyses; Author and manage Aggregate Safety Reports; Review safety concerns and support development of safety responses; Maintain continuous monitoring of safety profiles; Participate in cross-functional Safety Risk Management Team (SRMT) meetings; Review and provide input to clinical study documents; Write and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs); Support regulatory inspections

Seniority

Director/Senior Director, Management

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