Senior Pharmacovigilance Project Manager/Pv Project Manager

Jobgether; Portugal; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

International environment

Professional growth

Cross-regional collaboration

Patient safety focus

Job summary

Jobgether in Portugal is seeking a Senior Pharmacovigilance Project Manager to lead client-facing PV projects, ensuring timelines and objectives are met with high-quality safety data management.

You will coordinate PV activities across teams, maintain strong client relationships, and contribute to continuous improvement in project delivery while working within an international environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive pharmacovigilance experience including ICSR processing and quality review.
• Proven track record in managing client-facing PV projects from planning to delivery.
• Degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Medicine, or related field.
• Strong communication with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Detail-oriented with ability to manage multiple activities and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary client contact for PV projects and manage expectations.
• Define project scope, objectives, and milestones with clients.
• Develop and maintain project plans with deadlines and deliverables.
• Coordinate activities across PV teams to meet timelines.
• Monitor progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation actions.
• Prepare monthly project reports for clients and management.
• Provide PV expertise across ICSR processing, aggregate reporting, literature screening, and SOPs.
• Lead project meetings and document actions and decisions.

Skills

Pharmacovigilance

Project management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

ICSR processing

Quality review

Aggregate reporting

Literature screening

SOP preparation

Education

Life Sciences / Pharmacy / Medicine degree

Job description

Senior Pharmacovigilance Project Manager/PV Project Manager

Empresa: Jobgether

Tipo de Emprego: Periodo Integral

Portugal

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Pharmacovigilance Project Manager/PV Project Manager based in Portugal.

As a Senior Pharmacovigilance Project Manager, you will lead client-facing safety projects that support the delivery of high-quality pharmacovigilance services. You will serve as a key point of contact for clients, ensuring expectations, timelines, and project objectives are clearly defined and consistently managed. The role combines pharmacovigilance expertise with project leadership, planning, reporting, and stakeholder management. You will coordinate activities across project teams while ensuring deliverables meet regulatory, quality, and client requirements. Your work will span important PV activities, including case processing, quality review, aggregate reporting, literature screening, reconciliation, and procedural documentation. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders in pharmaceutical organizations and help identify solutions to complex project challenges. This is an opportunity to contribute directly to patient safety while developing your leadership and project management expertise within an international environment.

Accountabilities

• Act as the primary point of contact for clients on project-related matters, maintaining clear and effective communication throughout the engagement.
• Manage client expectations and ensure services and deliverables consistently meet or exceed agreed requirements.
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, and priorities based on signed client agreements and established service commitments.
• Develop and maintain project plans, including activities, deadlines, interim milestones, dependencies, and key deliverables.
• Coordinate project activities across relevant pharmacovigilance teams and ensure work progresses according to agreed timelines.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks or potential delays, and implement appropriate actions to maintain delivery.
• Prepare regular project reports for clients and internal management, including monthly reporting used to support project oversight and invoicing.
• Provide pharmacovigilance expertise across activities such as Individual Case Safety Report processing and quality review, aggregate reporting, literature screening, reconciliation, and SOP preparation.
• Facilitate project meetings and ensure actions, decisions, and follow-up activities are clearly communicated and documented.
• Support team members through effective planning, mentoring, problem solving, and day-to-day project leadership.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders and contribute to continuous improvement in project delivery and client satisfaction.

Requirements

• Proven professional experience in pharmacovigilance, with demonstrated involvement in activities such as ICSR processing and quality review, aggregate report writing or contribution, literature screening, reconciliation, and SOP preparation.
• Previous pharmacovigilance project management experience, ideally gained within a service provider, CRO, pharmaceutical, or related environment.
• Degree or professional background as a Healthcare Professional or graduate in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Medicine, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of pharmacovigilance processes, quality requirements, and the importance of accurate and timely safety data management.
• Experience managing projects from planning through delivery, including defining scope, setting milestones, coordinating activities, and monitoring progress.
• Comfortable communicating with senior-level stakeholders within pharmaceutical or life sciences organizations.
• Strong leadership skills with demonstrated ability to plan, organize, mentor colleagues, facilitate meetings, and resolve problems effectively.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage client expectations and build trusted professional relationships.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, particularly when managing multiple activities, deadlines, and stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively while taking ownership of project outcomes and responding effectively to changing priorities.
• A patient-focused mindset and commitment to quality, integrity, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Opportunity to contribute directly to projects that support patient safety and the availability of safe and effective pharmaceutical treatments.
• Work within an international and collaborative environment with colleagues across multiple regions and markets.
• Exposure to a broad range of pharmacovigilance activities, clients, and pharmaceutical projects.
• Opportunities to strengthen project management, leadership, stakeholder management, and pharmacovigilance expertise.
• Supportive culture built around collaboration, trust, belonging, and professional growth.
• Opportunities to work alongside experienced specialists in pharmacovigilance, clinical research, and quality consulting.
• Environment that values new ideas, continuous improvement, and contributions from employees at all levels.
• Flexible and supportive workplace culture designed to encourage sustainable professional development.
• Meaningful work with a clear impact on patient safety and healthcare outcomes.