Senior Safety Advisor for Global Safety Surveillance

Do you want to work with drug safety in clinical development?

As Senior Safety Advisor you will be a key player in the safety surveillance and development of one of LEO Pharma’s new treatments for chronic skin diseases. You will become part of a team of approximately 15 Safety Advisors working with investigational products from phase I-III.

LEO Pharma’s ambitions

LEO Pharma has embarked on a growth journey to become the preferred dermatology care partner in the world, dedicated to help people achieve healthy skin. We have recently introduced our 2030 strategy, which aims to accelerate our efforts in innovative therapeutics while strengthening our established portfolio and our global footprint in medical dermatology. Dermatology is an area of rapid growth and LEO Pharma is rapidly changing from primarily focusing on topical treatments, to being at the forefront of scientific advancements incl. biologics to help patients.

Job description

We are offering a job with considerable individual responsibility, challenges, and the opportunity to develop your professional and personal competencies. As Senior Safety Advisor, your focus is to be globally responsible for effective safety risk management processes with main tasks being:

• Signal detection and management
• Participation in clinical trial teams providing safety input to clinical development discussions and documents, e.g. trial protocols and Investigator’s Brochure
• Preparation of safety input to various regulatory documents
• Preparation of DSURs and Periodic line listings to the authorities
• Medical assessment and Medical review of SAEs/SUSARs
• Participation in cross functional project teams

Qualifications

• You hold a University degree in Medicine and have preferably 4+ years of experience from the pharmaceutical industry in pharmacovigilance/drug safety departments and/or medical/clinical development.
• As a person you are proactive and have an open-minded approach. You have the ability to focus, stay calm and work independently as well as in teams.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience from working in cross functional teams is a requirement as well as an analytical mindset and an eye for detail and good and strong written and verbal English skills.

We are a dedicated and ambitious team

Global Safety Surveillance consists of 30+ dynamic colleagues striving to safeguard our patients and to improve the quality of our processes and developing our competencies to meet the need of the patients and other stakeholders, internally as well as externally. We are driven by a high level of integrity, science, passion for our work and an open-minded approach. The position is placed in the LEO Pharma headquarters in Ballerup.

Let’s pioneer together

At LEO Pharma, we help people with skin diseases live fulfilling lives by advancing dermatology beyond the skin. We drive dermatology with our knowledge, collaboration and curiosity, and we are at the forefront of science in developing new medicines. For us, pioneering together is about constantly improving and extending what’s possible for each other, our company, and our patients.

Please send your application no later than 01 April 2021. Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis and we will take the opportunity to hire relevant candidate when identified. For more information please contact Head of Global Safety Surveillance Innovative, Michala Gauguin at +45 31614869. We look forward to reading your application

About LEO Pharma

LEO Pharma helps people achieve healthy skin. The company is a leader in medical dermatology with a robust R&D pipeline, a wide range of therapies and a pioneering spirit. Founded in 1908 and owned by the LEO Foundation, LEO Pharma has devoted decades of research and development to advance the science of dermatology, setting new standards of care for people with skin conditions. LEO Pharma is headquartered in Denmark with a global team of 6,000 people, serving 92 million patients in 130 countries.