Patient Safety Manager (m/f/d)

The position

You are a strategic yet pragmatic PV professional who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership skills. You are driven by patient safety, comfortable navigating complex regulatory environments, and thrive in cross‑functional, multicountry settings.

As Regional PV Manager, you will play a key strategic role in shaping and driving the regional Pharmacovigilance strategy in alignment with the global framework. You will ensure robust PV systems across assigned countries, provide leadership support to regional and local teams, and contribute to inspection readiness while maintaining a strong patient‑centric focus.

Tasks & responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Contribution to the regional Pharmacovigilance strategy and performance excellence and deputization of the Regional Head of Patient Safety

• Regional Oversight & Governance: Effective oversight of local PV activities and processes across assigned countries. Support and guidance of local PV teams in the maintenance of local PV systems, ensuring compliance with local regulations, global and regional requirements

• Stakeholder & Partner Collaboration: Advocacy of the PV strategy internally and externally. Cross‑functional collaboration with assigned business partners, subject matter expertise contribution (e.g., Medical Affairs, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Commercial).
• Audit & Inspection Readiness: Maintenance and contribution to audit and inspection readiness activities, according to assigned country responsibilities and/or PSPV subject matter expertise.

Requirements

• Education & Experience: University degree in Pharmacy or Medicine with mnimum 5 years of experience in Pharmacovigilance. Experience in additional pharmaceutical domains (e.g. Launch Management, Patient Engagement, Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, Quality Management) is a strong advantage.
• Technical & Regulatory Expertise: Comprehensive functional and technical expertise in Pharmacovigilance, strong knowledge of PV databases and systems, excellent understanding of PV regulations, GxP requirements, patient safety-related topics and pharmaceutical development processes
• Leadership & Personal Skills: Proven ability to operate successfully in a highly demanding, strategic role. Strong patient‑centric and risk‑based decision‑making mindset. Willingness and ability to perform in multicountry environments with diverse stakeholders and multiple interfaces. Excellent leadership, communication, management, and coaching skills.
• Languages: English: fluent (working language). German and/or Russian: an advantage.

Your Benefits

• Flexible working time models: home office and flexible working hours, depending on department and position – many things are possible with us.
• Additional days off (“bridge-days”): more free time through additional days off to bridge single working days between bank holidays and the weekend – without having to use vacation days.
• Canteen & Cafeteria: whether it's coffee and croissant for breakfast, various lunch menus or snacks in between – our subsidized staff restaurant & cafeteria has something for every taste including vegetarian and vegan options.
• Learning & development: diverse training and development opportunities for your personal and professional growth. Because: you never stop learning.
• Health promotion: health is important to us – that's why we offer different programs to promote physical and mental health.
• Public transport ticket: we encourage our employees to use public transport on their daily way to work. Costs for public transport? We cover them!

The remuneration for this position starts at EUR 64.170 gross annual target salary per year (full time). The actual salary package depends on professional experience and qualifications. We will be happy to discuss further details in person.

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Do you have any additional questions about the position? Your HR Recruiting Manager for this position is Sławomir Popiołek. 

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