Bayer
Global Safety Leader MD
The Global Safety Leader provides medical safety expertise, pharmacovigilance, and safety risk management for an assigned portfolio of products throughout their lifecycle. This role ensures patient safety and regulatory compliance by monitoring benefit-risk profiles, leading risk management processes, and producing high-quality safety reports and communications.
Key Responsibilities
- • Monitor the benefit risk profile of assigned portfolio in an ongoing fashion and in accordance with BSP and GPV processes
- • Lead the PV risk management processes including chairing Safety Management Teams
- • Identify, prioritize and analyze clinical safety signals
- • Perform ongoing review of emerging safety data from various sources including single case reports, PTCs and published literature and reports from partner functions
- • Work with the Systems and Operations teams to develop and continuously maintain and improve effective systems to ensure single cases (inc PTCs and other relevant reports) fulfill the requirements for signal detection and aggregate report compilation through targeted training
- • Ensure appropriate clinical safety risk communication and escalation within BSP to GPV Management and QPPV and BSP Safety Committees including SRC, GSC, PET and GLC
- • Produce high quality aggregate reports and responses to regulatory queries
- • Ensure adequate labeling of safety related information
- • Ensure effective and timely delivery of aggregate reports including PSUR/PBRERs, DSURs, DRMPs and RMPs (core and EU)
- • Deliver Benefit Risk Statements, safety section of DCSI and relevant Position paper and Justification documents, answers to assigned safety relevant HAs requests and complex A2Qs, safety relevant communications such as DHCP letters and company statements
- • Liaise with internal and external experts /KOLs to obtain specialized medical expertise as appropriate
- • Provide high quality and consistent input to development teams and product teams to support clinical development and life cycle management
- • Provide medical safety oversight of clinical study data in the context of the medical review process for clinical studies
- • Interact with license partners to support the Global license officer in the preparation and maintenance of PV agreements
- • Perform effective due diligence activities within the assigned TA
- • Plan and deploy skilled resources against project priorities in consultation with GPV-RM TA Head
- • Support GPV-RM TA Head in strategic decision making
Required
- • MD degree or equivalent (eg, DO or MBBS) is required
- • Robust Clinical and Pharmacovigilance experience is required
- • Appropriate experience with Regulatory Agency and KOL interactions
- • Good knowledge of pharmacovigilance relevant regulations and BHC standards
- • Proven evidence of effective delivery of high quality safety relevant documents
- • Knowledge of relevant concepts in data management and systems , pharmacoepidemiology and statistics
- • Effectively communicates in written and spoken English
- • Communicates complex issues in an understandable, effective and relevant manner
- • Strong influencing skills with the ability to explain and defend a position in the face of opposition
- • Strategic focus to activities and planning, with proactive planning and prioritization skills
- • Effective team member. Takes ownership of appropriate issues and appropriately delegates
- • Effectively applies processes across assigned team
- • Technical expertise in pharmacovigilance and clinical safety
- • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- • Provide effective and relevant review of complex documents
- • Experience with the GPV “Tool box” regarding databases/ other IT/ Coding systems
- • Ability to travel as needed
Preferred
- • Two years or more of clinical experience as well as at least 2 years of pharmacovigilance experience, or overall equivalent experience profile
- • Specialty certification preferred
- • Experience working within the areas of Oncology or Radiology is preferred
Benefits & Perks
- • health care
- • vision
- • dental
- • retirement
- • PTO
- • sick leave
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Global Safety Leader MD
The Global Safety Leader will provide medical safety expertise, state of the art pharmacovigilance, and safety risk management for an assigned portfolio of products (both marketed and in development).The Global Safety Leader ensures patient safety of Bayer Healthcare products and maintenance of compliance with the Pharmacovigilance regulations of Regulatory Agencies around the globe through the effective and timely completion of GPV Assessment activities through product development, product maintenance and life cycle management.
Your Tasks And Responsibilities
The primary responsibilities of this role, Global Safety Leader, are to:
Responsible for the safety assessment activities of assigned products under the supervision of Global PVRM Therapeutic Area Head, including:
Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:
Required Qualifications:
This posting will be available for application until at least: 3-27-26
YOUR APPLICATION
Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.
To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.
Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans
Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement: Notice for U.S. Visitors: All information on this site is subject to compliance with local rule and regulations as they may vary from time to time and across different geographies, including, without limitation, U.S. Executive Orders.
Bayer is an E-Verify Employer.
Location: United States : Residence Based : Residence Based
Division: Pharmaceuticals
Reference Code: 863226
Contact Us
Email: hrop_usa@bayer.com
Global Safety Leader MD
The Global Safety Leader will provide medical safety expertise, state of the art pharmacovigilance, and safety risk management for an assigned portfolio of products (both marketed and in development).The Global Safety Leader ensures patient safety of Bayer Healthcare products and maintenance of compliance with the Pharmacovigilance regulations of Regulatory Agencies around the globe through the effective and timely completion of GPV Assessment activities through product development, product maintenance and life cycle management.
Your Tasks And Responsibilities
The primary responsibilities of this role, Global Safety Leader, are to:
Responsible for the safety assessment activities of assigned products under the supervision of Global PVRM Therapeutic Area Head, including:
- Monitor the benefit risk profile of assigned portfolio in an ongoing fashion and in accordance with BSP and GPV processes;
- Lead the PV risk management processes including chairing Safety Management Teams;
- Identify, prioritize and analyze clinical safety signals;
- Perform ongoing review of emerging safety data from various sources including single case reports, PTCs and published literature and reports from partner functions;
- Work with the Systems and Operations teams to develop and continuously maintain and improve effective systems to ensure single cases (inc PTCs and other relevant reports) fulfill the requirements for signal detection and aggregate report compilation through targeted training;
- Ensure appropriate clinical safety risk communication and escalation within BSP to GPV Management and QPPV and BSP Safety Committees including SRC, GSC, PET and GLC;
- Produce high quality aggregate reports and responses to regulatory queries;
- Ensure adequate labeling of safety related information;
- Ensure effective and timely delivery of: o Aggregate reports including PSUR/PBRERs, DSURs, DRMPs and RMPs (core and EU);
- Benefit Risk Statements o Safety section of DCSI and relevant Position paper and Justification documents o Answers to assigned safety relevant HAs requests and complex A2Qs o Safety relevant communications such as DHCP letters and company statements;
- Liaise with internal and external experts /KOLs to obtain specialized medical expertise as appropriate;
- Provide high quality and consistent input to development teams and product teams to support clinical development and life cycle management;
- Provide medical safety oversight of clinical study data in the context of the medical review process for clinical studies;
- Interact with license partners to support the Global license officer in the preparation and maintenance of PV agreements;
- Perform effective due diligence activities within the assigned TA;
- Plan and deploy skilled resources against project priorities in consultation with GPV-RM TA Head;
- Support GPV-RM TA Head in strategic decision making.
Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:
Required Qualifications:
- MD degree or equivalent (eg, DO or MBBS) is required;
- Robust Clinical and Pharmacovigilance experience is required;
- Appropriate experience with Regulatory Agency and KOL interactions.;
- Good knowledge of pharmacovigilance relevant regulations and BHC standards;
- Proven evidence of effective delivery of high quality safety relevant documents;
- Knowledge of relevant concepts in data management and systems , pharmacoepidemiology and statistics;
- Effectively communicates in written and spoken English;
- Communicates complex issues in an understandable, effective and relevant manner;
- Strong influencing skills with the ability to explain and defend a position in the face of opposition;
- Strategic focus to activities and planning, with proactive planning and prioritization skills;
- Effective team member. Takes ownership of appropriate issues and appropriately delegates;
- Effectively applies processes across assigned team;
- Technical expertise in pharmacovigilance and clinical safety;
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills;
- Provide effective and relevant review of complex documents;
- Experience with the GPV “Tool box” regarding databases/ other IT/ Coding systems;
- Ability to travel as needed.
- Two years or more of clinical experience as well as at least 2 years of pharmacovigilance experience, or overall equivalent experience profile;
- Specialty certification preferred;
- Experience working within the areas of Oncology or Radiology is preferred.
This posting will be available for application until at least: 3-27-26
YOUR APPLICATION
Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.
To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.
Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans
Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement: Notice for U.S. Visitors: All information on this site is subject to compliance with local rule and regulations as they may vary from time to time and across different geographies, including, without limitation, U.S. Executive Orders.
Bayer is an E-Verify Employer.
Location: United States : Residence Based : Residence Based
Division: Pharmaceuticals
Reference Code: 863226
Contact Us
Email: hrop_usa@bayer.com
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