About This Role: As a Senior Pharmacovigilance (PV) Lead, you will provide strategic and operational PV/safety support for Biogen’s West Coast Hub development programs, working closely with cross-functional colleagues. This Director level position is pivotal in overseeing global safety operations, ensuring high-quality pharmacovigilance deliverables, and offering expert guidance across the organization. You will manage internal and external PV resources, lead cross-functional safety governance, and serve as a subject matter expert for safety strategy across clinical development, regulatory filings, and post-marketing activities. This role is integral to the business structure, fostering collaboration and advancing the strategic safety objectives of the organization.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage internal PV personnel and external resources, including full oversight of all PV vendor activities to ensure operational excellence and compliance.
- Build (where applicable) and mentor a high-performing pharmacovigilance team, fostering a culture of scientific rigor, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee day-to-day case processing and global safety monitoring activities for assigned products across all phases of clinical development.
- Ensure timely, accurate assessment and reporting of adverse events and emerging safety signals.
- Lead and facilitate cross-functional safety governance meetings, including coordination of materials, agenda planning, data presentation, documentation of decisions, and tracking safety-related action items.
- Provide PV subject matter expertise on Program Teams and cross-functional working groups throughout the company.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of core PV and safety governance documents, including Safety Management Plans (SMPs), safety data exchange agreements (SDEAs), and PV-related SOPs, work instructions, and process guides.
- Drive continuous improvement and inspection readiness across PV processes.
- Support strategic benefit-risk assessments and safety communication planning.
Who You Are: You are highly collaborative and detail-oriented, thriving in a dynamic environment where vendor oversight and complex PV program management are critical. Your ability to incorporate multiple perspectives facilitates effective teamwork and problem-solving. You possess an innate drive for continuous improvement and a commitment to scientific rigor, making you an invaluable leader in your field. Your strong communication skills enable you to influence across various functions, ensuring the successful navigation of safety challenges.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree required with at least 10 years of industry experience, including a minimum of 8 years focused on clinical/safety and demonstrated PV expertise.
- Professional health background (RN, PharmD, MD) highly preferred.
- Knowledge of global safety regulations, MedDRA terminology and its application, and principles of data entry and data extraction with global safety databases.
- Experience reviewing cumulative safety data with the ability to interpret, synthesize, communicate, and present complex clinical/pharmaceutical information.
- Demonstrated experience in the preparation and authoring of pre- and post-aggregate safety reports.
- Thorough understanding of the drug development process and context applicable to safety surveillance activities.
- Ability to execute and follow through to completion.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment where results are achieved through influence and the incorporation of multiple points of view.
- Ability to alert the Medical Safety Physicians or Medical Monitors to potential safety issues identified through single case medical review or aggregated datasets.
- Independently motivated, detail-oriented, and possessing good problem-solving ability.
- Excellent organizational skills, sufficient to multi-task in an extremely fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence across multiple functions.
- Ability to assist with first line clinical/medical data review to support medical monitoring activities.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with inspection readiness and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Familiarity with strategic benefit-risk assessments.
- Strong leadership skills in cross-functional safety governance settings.
Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
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