Senior Pharmacovigilance Scientist

CK Group; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical company is seeking a Senior Pharmacovigilance Scientist for a hybrid role in Welwyn Garden City. You will leverage your expertise in pharmacovigilance to ensure compliance and lead initiatives that protect patient safety. The ideal candidate has significant experience in ICSR processes and international regulations. Competitive rates are offered, with hybrid working arrangements requiring on-site presence two days per week.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in pharmacovigilance and legislation.
• Knowledge of international regulations (ICH, EU GVP Modules, FDA).
• Evidence of leading complex projects under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety data is processed and reported compliantly.
• Oversee service provider executing ICSR tasks.
• Identify root causes of non-compliance and implement CAPAs.

Skills

Pharmacovigilance expertise

ICSR knowledge

Leadership skills

Relationship management

Problem investigation and solving

Education

Relevant Life Science degree or equivalent experience in pharmacovigilance

Job description

Overview

CK Group are recruiting for a Senior Pharmacovigilance Scientist to join a company in the pharmaceutical industry on an outside IR25 contract basis until the end of 2026.

Salary: £40 - £48 per hour UMB / LTD or £29.85 - £35.82 per hour PAYE

Senior Pharmacovigilance Scientist Role:

Responsibilities

• Use your pharmacovigilance expertise, particularly individual case safety report (ICSR) knowledge, to ensure safety data is processed and reported in a high quality, compliant manner, so it can be used to understand and communicate the product benefit risk to protect patients’ safety.
• Performing oversight of service provider who execute ICSR tasks (and Medical Device reports)
• Identifying root causes of non-compliance to agree Corrective Actions and Preventative Actions (CAPAs), which you may be responsible for implementing
• Effective oversight of service providers via relationship management, and metrics and analysis.
• Leadership of complex initiatives with multiple stakeholders, with the ability to investigate and creatively solve problems and simplify, whilst meeting customer needs.

Your Background

• Demonstrated experience in a breadth of areas pertaining to pharmacovigilance, and pharmacovigilance legislation; good knowledge of international regulations (ICH, EU GVP Modules, FDA) and an understanding of the pharmaceutical industry (product development and the commercial environment) and of rapidly-evolving personalised healthcare environment and ecosystem
• Medical Device processing experience, knowledge.
• Evidence of leading complex, time-pressured projects, working with a wide range of stakeholders.
• A relevant Life Science degree or equivalent experience in pharmacovigilance.
• Strong broad knowledge across end-to-end ICSR processes

Company

Our client is one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing and providing over 160 different medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products to help improve the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year.

Location

This role is based at our clients site in Welwyn Garden City (Hybrid role, 2 days per week required on site).

Apply

For more information, or to apply for this Senior Pharmacovigilance Scientist role, please contact the Key Accounts Team on 01438 870011 or email [e-mail]. Please cite reference 151 132.

It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK

Notes

Please note: This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.