Benefit Risk Evaluation Assessor

Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare regulatory agency in the UK is seeking experienced Benefit Risk Evaluation Assessors for its Safety and Surveillance team. The role involves conducting benefit risk assessments, engaging with stakeholders, and addressing safety issues with a focus on patient safety. Candidates should have a relevant degree and experience in healthcare, medical devices, or regulatory environments. Strong decision-making and interpersonal skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, medical device, or regulatory environments is essential.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects with conflicting priorities.
• Strong understanding of medical product risk management.

Responsibilities

• Conduct robust benefit risk assessments of potential safety signals.
• Engage with stakeholders to recommend safety actions and risk mitigations.
• Work across therapeutic teams to respond to safety issues.

Skills

Decision-making

Risk management principles

Project management

Interpersonal skills

Education

Degree in physical/biological sciences, pharmacy, or relevant healthcare qualification

Job description

The MHRA is transforming. Through enabling innovation, making the right judgements of the benefits and risks of medical products and forging the right partnerships in the UK and internationally, it aims to deliver world class regulation and improved outcomes for UK patients.

We are currently looking for experienced Benefit Risk Evaluation Assessors to join our Benefit/Risk Evaluation Team II in the Safety and Surveillance group.

Within a week of working here, your day could look like this: Provide a robust benefit risk assessment of potential safety signals using data from a range of sources and technical, scientific, clinical and regulatory knowledge and/or practical experience. Benefit risk assessors are responsible for engaging with a range of stakeholders including patients and the public to make timely and robust benefit-risk assessments and recommend safety actions and risk mitigations that are outcome focused.

Benefit/risk assessors are flexible according to business needs and work across therapeutic teams and the wider agency and the health and social care system to respond promptly to potential safety issues and protect patient safety.

All benefit risk roles require working flexibly to perform and contribute to benefit risk assessments across all medical products as required.

The successful candidate will have a degree or equivalent qualification in a related discipline (such as physical and/or biological sciences, pharmacy, engineering or a relevant healthcare qualification), as well as previousrelevant experience such as healthcare, medical device or medicinal productindustryor regulatory environment.

Our successful candidate will have:

• The ability to make confident and effective decisions, taking the appropriate level of ownership and holding themselves accountable for decisions, able to ask for help when needed. Be solution focused.
• Proven understanding of risk management principles to reduce harm and promote effective use of medical products and relevant technical knowledge and experience of medicines and/or medical devices.
• Proven experience of managing complex projects to agreed milestones and managing conflicting priorities.
• Previous relevant experience such as healthcare, medical device or medicinal product industry or regulatory environment.
• Good interpersonal skills to facilitate team-working and co-operating with colleagues from different disciplines.

Closing date: 01 December 2025

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