Senior Director, Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance – Development

Contact: Kevin Mednick
Phone: (215) 658-1379

Position Overview

Our client is a clinical-stage oncology company focused on expanding the breakthrough potential of targeted radiopharmaceuticals to large patient populations, including those not addressed by existing platform technologies.

This role will serve as the safety expert across programs and drive safety excellence with the clinical development organization. In collaboration with internal and external partners, you will design and implement best-in-class safety practices to ensure global compliance, support health authority submissions, and protect patient well-being and safety.

Key Responsibilities:

Clinical Safety Leadership

• Act as the drug safety lead for one or more clinical-stage assets, providing clinical oversight and proactive safety surveillance in collaboration with global program/clinical teams.
• Design, direct and conduct ongoing safety surveillance of company drug products using internal and external resources (e.g. CROs/vendors) to ensure delivery of high-quality Drug Safety services, including oversight of patient safety in all ongoing clinical trials. This includes the medical review of (AEs) and Serious AEs (SAEs).
• Provide strategic planning, implementation, and management of Drug Safety activities to support the clinical development of company products.
• Serve as the clinical safety expert for all assigned products at all stages of clinical development. As needed, provide hands-on oversight of all clinical safety services including review of medical coding of AEs, concomitant medications, and processing of SAEs (review, query generation and resolution, and preparation of case narratives) through the entire lifecycle.
• Establish and conduct signal management procedures including signal evaluation reports and recommendations for risk characterization.
• Lead the Risk Management Team (RMT) meetings for review of safety data and AE profile, including production of any associated materials (e.g., aggregate reports, charter).
• Provide medical review of AE reports to ensure the accuracy, integrity and completeness of information entered in the safety database.
• Contribute critical medical input to clinical documents, including protocols, investigator brochures, and informed consents.
• Review and approve safety data for regulatory submissions, aggregate safety reports (e.g., DSURs, PSURs/PBRERs, RMPs), and safety sections of CTD documents.
• Provide medical expert safety review input for critical documents for clinical development of products (e.g., protocols and amendments, ICFs, IBs, IMPDs, clinical research reports, INDs, CTAs)

Function Building & Operational Oversight

• Build and own the internal Drug Safety & PV function with a focus on scalability, agility, and regulatory excellence.
• Oversee day-to-day Safety Operations via a partially outsourced model; manage and optimize PV vendor relationships.
• Ensure the quality and timeliness of AE processing, safety database management, MedDRA coding, and global reporting.
• Develop and maintain PV policies, SOPs, safety governance frameworks, and inspection readiness plans.

Strategic Collaboration & Influence

• Serve as a key clinical safety representative on Clinical Study Teams and global program teams (as needed).
• Partner closely with Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and DMPK to align on safety strategies and data interpretations.
• Support safety-related interactions with global health authorities, including preparation for and participation in regulatory meetings, inspections or audits.
• Bring a solutions-oriented mindset to evolving internal processes and organizational needs as the company scales.

Key Requirements:

• MD or equivalent medical degree required; specialty training in oncology.
• Strong desire to be part of a mission‐oriented company leading transformative change for patients.
• Proven demonstration of transparent communication and fostering open and diverse debate.
• Ability to work with agility and manage ambiguity.
• Personifies positive energy and exemplifies respect.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to foster trust, influence stakeholders, and operate cross-functionally.
• A blend of strategic acumen and operational know-how, able to pivot between high-level planning and detailed execution.
• 5-7+ years of biopharmaceutical industry experience in pharmacovigilance and clinical safety, with demonstrated success in a leadership capacity.
• Proven experience managing pharmaco-vigilance in a partially or fully outsourced model, including vendor oversight and contract management.
• Expert knowledge of FDA safety regulations, ICH Guidelines, and other applicable regulatory guidance documents; expertise in global safety regulations.
• Expertise in clinical safety assessments, safety signal detection and risk management, including interactions with regulatory authorities
• In-depth knowledge of global PV regulations and good pharmacovigilance practice requirements, with direct experience in INDs, NDAs/BLAs/MAAs, and other regulatory submissions.
• A track record of building or scaling safety functions, especially in lean, high-growth environments.

Location: Boston/RTL/Remote

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If interested, please send a MS Word version of your resume to [email protected]

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