Pharmacovigilance Lead - Istanbul, Türkiye

486 Lilly İlaç Ticaret Ltd. Şti; Fatih; On-site; TRY 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Lilly in Turkey is seeking a qualified QPPV to lead pharmacovigilance activities for the region. The role involves establishing and maintaining the local pharmacovigilance system, managing adverse event cases, and ensuring compliance with GVP and national regulations.

You will collaborate with GPS, QA, medical and regulatory affairs, train staff, and oversee inspections readiness. A pharmacovigilance background with leadership experience and English medical terminology is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a health profession (Pharmacy or Physician).
• 5+ years of experience in drug safety or pharmacovigilance.
• Knowledge of local, regional, and global pharmacovigilance procedures.
• Experience in people management or leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure regulatory and GVP compliance in the region.
• Establish and maintain the local pharmacovigilance system and quality processes.
• Manage adverse event case intake, entry, follow-up and reporting to GPS.
• Recruit, train and develop staff; oversee performance management and succession planning.

Skills

Communication

English (medical)

Quality systems

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a health profession (Pharmacy or Physician)

Job description

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

Key Responsibilities

General Responsibilities and Regulatory Compliance

• Fulfil the legal and regulatory requirements for the QPPV responsible for pharmacovigilance role as defined by legislation and/or guidelines in the respective country(ies) of the region.
• Responsible for the establishment and maintenance of Lilly's local pharmacovigilance system, including the performance of the quality system and pharmacovigilance activities to promote, maintain and improve compliance with the legal requirements and relevant Good Vigilance Practice (GVP) requirements in the region.
• Understand pharmacovigilance activities (such as adverse event management, expedited and periodic reporting, risk management, and creation and maintenance of the Pharmacovigilance System Master File).
• Understand the role of the European Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (EU QPPV).
• Escalate any safety and compliance issues to appropriate local and global management.
• Act as an interface between Global Patient Safety (GPS) and the aligned affiliate.
• Responsible for appropriate communications between patient safety locally and other stakeholders, GPS, product complaints, medical and regulatory affairs.
• Provide technical expertise to the aligned affiliate and GPS with respect to the interpretation and implementation of national pharmacovigilance legislation/regulation for both drugs and devices.
• As necessary, ensure appropriate backup coverage is in place in times of absence or unavailability.
• Ensure relevant stakeholders are made aware of actions initiated for safety reasons for any Lilly product.
• Lead, coordinate and organize all necessary training on adverse event reporting to the aligned affiliate as appropriate.
• Review metrics to monitor quality and compliance activities and implement any corrective and/or preventative actions.
• Responsible for the review and approval of any local business agreements that require safety and regulatory input (such as business alliances, patient support programs, distribution agreements).
• Collaborate with external customers and be an active participant of the local pharmacovigilance industry association groups.
• Ensure and verify that the information contained in Lilly's European Pharmacovigilance System Master File (EU PSMF) and associated country documents are maintained as applicable.

Case Management and Reporting

• Serve as point of contact for reception and collection of AE reports.
• Adverse event case entry into the safety database, complete case follow-up as directed or required.
• Ensure that all relevant information is captured and forwarded to GPS within the designated timeframe, both for initial and follow-up reports.
• Responsible for the accuracy and completeness of information reported from clinical trial, post marketing surveillance study and spontaneous adverse events for marketed products and devices, as applicable.
• Reconcile case reports with business partners, medical information, and product quality.

People Management

• Recruit, train and develop skilled individuals that are motivated to work with a high-quality standard and achieve department and company objectives.
• Implement performance management, career management and succession planning to maximize career potential, retain talented people for the long term and maximize value to the corporation.

Standards and Inspection Readiness

• Coordinate and strive for inspection and audit readiness and participate in affiliate inspections, audits and assessments.
• Ensure relevant safety standard operating procedures (SOP) are well understood across the aligned affiliate; lead and provide clarification on local implementation.
• Support the development of global SOPs to ensure alignment with local laws and regulations.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with MoH/regulatory authority(ies) requirements and GPS policies, procedures and processes.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a health profession (Pharmacy or Physician).
• 5+ years of experience in drug safety or pharmacovigilance.
• Knowledge and understanding of local, regional, and global procedures as applicable.
• Knowledge of legislation with regards to relevant national regulatory guidelines, directives, and regulations in pharmacovigilance.
• Prior experience in people management.

Other Information / Additional Preferences

• Excellent communication (written and verbal), interpersonal, organizational and negotiation skills.
• Professional knowledge of English including medical terminology.
• Strong knowledge of quality systems.

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