Executive Director, Global Patient Safety Sciences Delivery

Scorpion Therapeutics; New Jersey; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics in the United States is seeking a Senior Safety Sciences leader to oversee risk responsibilities across therapeutic areas and drive standardized safety operations.

You will define strategy, oversee training, and build a scalable team while ensuring compliance for periodic safety reports and signal management. Requires MD/PhD and 17+ years PV experience. Location: Warren, NJ with onsite work 4 days/week; travel as needed.

Qualifications

• MD/PA/PhD/PharmD; board certification or equivalent (MBA a plus).
• 17+ years PV or relevant pharma clinical experience.
• 6+ years leading teams/people management.
• Oversight experience in a global patient safety organization (preferred).
• Strong attention to detail and ability to assess/optimize safety operations processes.
• Strong leadership, communication, organizational planning, and multi-project management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as key point of contact for Safety Sciences operations and risk responsibilities across all Therapeutic Areas.
• Drive portfolio consistency for core Safety Scientist activities (data transformation, safety surveillance, SMT preparation, aggregate report drafts, signal evaluations).
• Define strategy and develop templates to standardize execution.
• Oversee GPS Safety Sciences training (standardized curriculum, proficiency matrix, knowledge management repository).
• Enable Global Capability Center (GCC) to scale and operate efficiently.
• Ensure compliance and quality management; establish SOPs and monitoring tools.
• Oversee signal detection coordination and signal management across TAs.
• Coordinate compliant, timely benefit-risk assessment for periodic safety reports and contribute to ARM/RMP/SMP as required.
• Set framework for aggregate safety data analysis.
• Build, coach, and scale the team; lead succession planning and talent pipelines.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational planning

Multi-project management

Education

MD/PA/PhD/PharmD

Board certification

MBA a plus

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Serve as key point of contact for Safety Sciences operations and risk responsibilities across all Therapeutic Areas.
• Drive portfolio consistency for core Safety Scientist activities (e.g., data transformation, safety surveillance, SMT preparation, aggregate report drafts, signal evaluations, label enhancement justifications).
• Define strategy and develop common practices, processes, and templates to standardize and ensure consistent execution.
• Oversee GPS Safety Sciences training (standardized curriculum, proficiency matrix, knowledge management repository).
• Enable Global Capability Center (GCC) to scale and operate efficiently.
• Ensure compliance and quality management; establish SOPs and monitoring tools.
• Oversee signal detection coordination and signal management (SMT, SSP, SER) across TAs.
• Coordinate compliant, timely benefit-risk assessment for periodic safety reports (e.g., DSURs, PSURs) and contribute Medical/Safety perspective to ARM/RMP/SMP as required.
• Set framework for aggregate safety data analysis.
• Build, coach, and scale the team; lead succession planning and talent pipelines.

Required/Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• MD/PA/PhD/PharmD; board certification or equivalent (MBA a plus).
• 17+ years PV or relevant pharma clinical experience.
• 6+ years leading teams/people management.
• Preferred: oversight experience in a global patient safety organization.
• Strong attention to detail; ability to assess/optimize safety operations processes and ensure compliant execution.
• Strong leadership, communication (verbal/written), organizational/workload planning, and multi-project management.

When/Where:

Tarrytown, NY; Warren, NJ; or Cambridge, MA; 4 days/week onsite; travel as needed.