Global Associate Medical Safety Director

CA Financial Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

IQVIA is seeking an Associate Medical Safety Director to lead pharmacovigilance activities across post-marketing and development safety. The role involves medical safety review, risk management, signal detection, and regulatory submissions, with collaboration across stakeholders and internal teams.

You will contribute to safety governance, aggregate reports, and product safety strategies while ensuring compliance with GCP and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Medical degree from an accredited and internationally recognized medical school.
• Approximately three years of clinical practice with two additional years in pharma or related industry.
• Knowledge of regulations and guidelines for clinical research including safety, GCP and trials.
• Experience in Signal detection, Aggregate reports and Risk management.
• Ability to synthesize and analyze data and communicate complex clinical issues in writing and orally.
• Ability to meet priorities, deadlines and objectives.
• Ability to collaborate with coworkers, managers and clients, including mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Provide aggregate reviews of safety information to maintain oversight of a product’s safety profile.
• Lead signal detection and analysis, including strategy, frequency, and timing of reviews.
• Provide medical review for regulatory reports (IND, EU/US safety reports).
• Contribute to risk management plans and safety review of protocols and CTDs.
• Review benefit-risk evaluation for drugs in trials and post-marketing set up.
• Contribute to safety oversight for label development and updates.
• Support Integrated Safety Summary and Clinical Documentation.
• Clarify trial-related adverse events and ADRs for PV teams.
• Represent safety findings in stakeholder meetings and governance forums.

Skills

Signal detection

Risk management

Medical writing

Data synthesis

Communication

Project prioritization

Mentorship

Education

Medical degree

Job description

IQVIA is seeking an Associate Medical Safety Director to lead pharmacovigilance activities across post-marketing and development safety. The role involves medical safety review, risk management, signal detection, and regulatory submissions, with collaboration across stakeholders and internal teams.

You will contribute to safety governance, aggregate reports, and product safety strategies while ensuring compliance with GCP and regulatory standards.