Job Description

The Senior Safety Data Scientist partners with cross functional stakeholders in support of the product safety profile and benefit risk throughout product lifecycle through signal detection, signal evaluation, and preparation of written and verbal summaries of signal management activities and risks to patient safety to present to senior management and regulatory authorities globally.  

Responsibilities:

Responsible for standard surveillance activities for a product’s life cycle (one or more assigned compounds and products) through review of safety data from clinical trials, safety databases, and the literature.  

Collaborates with safety and clinical teams to develop strategies and approaches for signal assessments and regulatory requests by analyzing data from multiple sources.

Analyzes data to support signal assessment and contributes to ad hoc regulatory safety requests using data from multiple sources with supervision.

Utilizes medical judgment to determine the impact of identified safety issues on the compound/ product’s benefit-risk profile.

Communicates findings of surveillance activities and safety assessments to product teams and leadership to inform on necessary risk minimization activities, including label changes.

Collaborative preparation and maintenance of safety sections of Clinical Summary of Safety, Clinical Study Reports, Company Core Data Sheets and Risk Management Plan.

Support strategy development, authorship and review of global aggregate safety reports in accordance with regulatory requirements and standard operating procedures with supervision.

Prepares summaries of key safety data for PST, SRB, senior management, Advisory and other similar meetings with supervision.

Proficient in pharmacovigilance regulations, guidelines, and company standard operating procedures

In depth understanding of compounds within assigned therapeutic areas, including safety profile and where applicable, labeling, literature, clinical and regulatory issues.