# Pharmacovigilance Manager

**Company**: ICON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster. As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers.

As a Manager, Pharmacovigilance at ICON, you will be responsible for overseeing the pharmacovigilance activities, ensuring the safety and efficacy of clinical trial products throughout their lifecycle.

**Responsibilities**

Your focus will be on coordinating pharmacovigilance and drug safety delivery, resolving issues, and developing team capability. Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the pharmacovigilance team in the collection, evaluation, and reporting of adverse events, ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines and internal standards.

- Developing and implementing pharmacovigilance processes and policies to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of safety monitoring activities.

- Collaborating with clinical, regulatory, and quality assurance teams to ensure comprehensive safety assessments and timely reporting of safety data.

- Providing training and guidance to team members and stakeholders on pharmacovigilance regulations, practices, and procedures.

- Monitoring and analyzing safety data trends, preparing risk assessments, and presenting findings to relevant stakeholders.

- Ensuring that all pharmacovigilance activities are conducted in accordance with global regulatory requirements and internal quality standards.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing, or a related healthcare/scientific discipline.

- Strong Pharmacovigilance experience with strong exposure to case processing, safety reporting, aggregate reporting, PV operations, or related drug safety activities.

- Mandatory line management experience leading a small to medium-sized team, including workload management, coaching, mentoring, and staff development.

- Hands-on experience conducting performance reviews, setting objectives, providing performance feedback, managing employee development plans, and supporting succession planning.

- Project management experience (preferred) with responsibility for project delivery, resource planning, workload forecasting, risk management, and stakeholder communication.

- Strong understanding of global Pharmacovigilance regulations, GVP/GCP requirements, SOPs, quality systems, and regulatory compliance expectations.

- Demonstrated ability to manage resources and capacity planning, ensuring project deliverables, timelines, and quality standards are consistently met.

- Experience in metric generation, reporting, data analysis, trend identification, and continuous process improvement initiatives.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and reporting/analytics tools, with the ability to prepare management reports, dashboards, presentations, and business updates.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience interacting with clients, senior management, cross-functional teams, and external stakeholders.

- Proven ability to deliver presentations, lead meetings, conduct training sessions, and influence stakeholders across different levels of the organization.

- Experience supporting recruitment, onboarding, employee development, audits/inspections, and quality improvement initiatives within a regulated environment.

**Rewards & Benefits**

ICON offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and career development.

Benefits may include:

- Competitive base salary and performance related incentives

- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable

- Retirement and pension plans

- Life assurance and disability coverage

- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources

- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

Benefits may vary depending on role and location.

## Skills

### Required
- Pharmacovigilance
- Life Sciences
- Pharmacy
- Medicine
- Nursing
- Project Management
- Microsoft Excel
- PowerPoint
- Word

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