Global Safety Officer, I&I

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North America Applicants Only

The salary range for this position is: $178,500.00 - $297,500.00

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs. Additional benefits information can be found through the LINK.

Global Safety Officer, I&I

Location: Cambridge, MA / Morristown, NJ

Join the engine of Sanofi's mission where deep immunoscience meets bold, AI-powered research. In R&D, you'll drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions.

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We're also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

About Sanofi

We're an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people's lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system and innovative pipeline enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

Main Responsibilities:

• Provide PV and risk management expertise to internal and external customers
• Safety expert for product
• Maintain knowledge of product, product environment, and recent literature
• Maintain PV expertise, and understanding of international safety regulations and guidelines
• Lead cross functional Safety Management Teams (SMTs) and GPE internal Safety Analysis Teams (SATs)
• Communicate with and represent PV position within project/product teams, with external partners, key opinion leaders, and Health Authorities, and during internal and external negotiations
• Provide strategic and proactive safety input into development plans
• Support due diligence activities and pharmacovigilance agreements

Impact:

• Ongoing assessment of the safety status of the product
• Review, preparation, contribution and/or approval of clinical development documents including clinical development plans, SAPs, study protocols, investigator brochures, data monitoring plans, study reports, integrated summary of safety, summary of clinical safety, and labeling
• Review, preparation, and/or contribution to questions from health authorities, ethics committees, IRBs, external partners
• Management of product safety alerts
• Ensuring the GPE position is well articulated to and understood by its internal and external customers
• Establishment of credibility of GSO function and of GPE

Signal Detection and Assessment:

• Responsible for signal detection and analysis
• Collaborate with Center of Excellence for Signal Detection and Data Mining and Safety Epidemiology group
• Identify and implement proactive safety analysis strategies to further define the safety profile.
• Lead aggregate safety data review activities and coordinate safety surveillance activities

Risk Assessment/Risk Management/ Benefit-Risk Assessment:

• Provide proactive risk assessment
• Co-lead benefit-risk assessment with other relevant functions
• Develop risk management strategies and plans and monitor effectiveness
• Collaborate with Center of Excellence for Risk Management and Safety Epidemiology

Submission Activities:

• Represent safety position in cross functional submission teams
• Ensure generation, consistency, and quality of safety sections in submission documents
• Write responses or contributions to health authorities' questions
• Support preparation and conduct of Advisory Committee meetings

Report Writing:

• Document, coordinate, review and validate Periodic reports, e.g.: RMP update, IND Annual Report, Annual Safety Report/Development Safety Update Report, Periodic Safety Update Report
• Serve as the medical safety expert to the GPE Periodic Reports group for assigned projects and products.

About You

Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent clinical judgment
• Capability to synthesize and critically analyze data from multiple sources
• Ability to communicate complex clinical issues and analysis orally and in writing
• Able to develop and document sound risk assessment
• Demonstrates initiative and capacity to work under pressure
• Demonstrates leadership within cross-functional team environment
• Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills are required
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).

Formal Education And Experience Required:

• M.D. Degree or equivalent.
• For MD, Board Certified/Board eligible, or equivalent, is preferred
• For M.D., minimum 3 years total experience in international pharmacovigilance, or equivalent relevant industry experience (e.g. clinical development) with relevant clinical experience considered. Exceptionally, candidates may be considered if they have proven excellence in a similar prior position, even if they have less than 3 years international PV experience.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.