Clinical Safety Manager

Avania LLC.; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Avania is hiring a Clinical Safety Manager in the Netherlands to lead the EU safety team and provide hands-on clinical safety guidance across studies.

This player-coach role combines people leadership with project oversight, coaching direct reports, ensuring quality, billable contribution, and delivery across studies in a growing clinical research environment.

You will collaborate with senior safety leadership and participate in broader operational discussions to shape strategy and resourcing.

Qualifications

• Experience leading clinical safety or pharmacovigilance teams.
• Strong coaching and performance-management skills.
• Strategic oversight of safety studies and study delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead EU safety team through coaching, training, and performance feedback.
• Oversee direct reports for quality, utilization, delivery, and growth.
• Conduct evaluations and goal reviews across the team.
• Provide strategic oversight for lower-complexity safety studies.
• Collaborate with senior safety leadership on workload and resourcing.
• Participate in Global Operational Leadership Team discussions.
• Support bidding activities with operational input when needed.
• Mentor safety staff onboarding and readiness as the group grows.
• Ensure visibility into performance and process alignment with dept expectations.
• Provide hands-on safety guidance to support study strategy.

Job description

Avania is hiring - Clinical Safety Manager

About the role

As a Clinical Safety Manager at Avania, you will play a key leadership role in supporting the growth, performance, and operational direction of the European medical review team. This is a player-coach position that combines people leadership with project oversight, making it well suited to someone who enjoys developing others while also staying connected to study delivery. A significant part of the role will focus on managing and supporting a small team of direct reports across Europe, helping them succeed through coaching, training, performance oversight, and clear expectations around quality and billable contribution. Alongside these management responsibilities, you will also provide strategic oversight on a select number of lower-complexity studies and serve as a trusted partner to senior safety leadership on day-to-day operational matters. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to team development, study strategy, operational planning, and broader leadership discussions within a growing clinical research environment. It is especially well suited to someone who brings strong managerial capability, sound judgment, and enough clinical or safety understanding to guide work effectively and step in where needed.

What you'll be doing - Clinical Safety Manager

• Lead and support members of the EU safety team through day-to-day people management, including coaching, training, performance feedback, and ongoing development conversations


• Oversee a group of direct reports and help ensure they are meeting expectations related to quality of work, utilization, delivery, and professional growth


• Conduct core managerial activities such as evaluations, objective setting, goal reviews, and follow-up on development plans across the team


• Provide strategic and operational oversight for selected lower-complexity studies, helping guide study approach while remaining connected to delivery needs


• Partner closely with senior safety leadership to monitor team workload, billability, and resourcing needs, and help identify where support or adjustments may be required


• Act as a leadership presence within the function by participating in the Global Operational Leadership Team and contributing to broader operational discussions


• Serve as a backup contributor in bidding activities when needed, helping support business development efforts with functional input and operational perspective


• Help strengthen team capability by supporting onboarding, mentoring, and readiness of safety staff as the European group continues to grow


• Maintain visibility into team performance and process execution, ensuring that people, workflows, and priorities remain aligned with departmental expectations


• Step in with hands‑on support when appropriate, particularly where clinical or safety context is needed to help guide decisions or support study strategy