Safety Advisor in Global Safety Surveillance, maternity cover

Do you want to work with drug safety and pharmacovigilance?

As Safety Advisor in Global Safety Surveillance (GSS) you will be a key player in the safety surveillance of LEO Pharma established products. In GSS, you will get the opportunity to make a significant difference for people with serious skin diseases all over the world. You will become part of a department of about 15 Safety Advisors working with drug safety and pharmacovigilance for established products.

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 Safety Advisor, your focus is to be globally responsible for effective safety risk management processes with main tasks being:

• Preparation of Periodic Safety Update Reports and Risk Management Plans to the authorities
• Signal detection and management
• Medical assessment of adverse event reports
• Preparation of safety input to various regulatory documents

Qualifications

You hold a University degree in health or biological science (MD, MSc Pharm, MSc, or equivalent). Preferably you have experience from the pharmaceutical industry, and it will be an advance if you have worked in a pharmacovigilance and/or drug safety department.

As a person you are proactive and have an open-minded approach. You can work focused, stay calm and work independently, as well as in teams. Strong collaboration skills is a requirement as well as an analytical mindset and an eye for detail. You must have good and strong written and verbal English skills.

We are a dedicated and ambitious team

Global Safety Surveillance (GSS) consists of approximately 40 dynamic colleagues working in 2 departments, who all strive to safeguard our patients: GSS Established, working with marketed products and GSS Innovative, working with products in development.

We are driven by a high level of integrity, science and passion for our work. We have an open-minded approach to what we do, striving to safeguard our patients and we continuously seek to improve the quality of our processes, and developing our competencies to meet the need of the patients and other stakeholders, both internally as well as externally.

The position is a 1-year maternity cover, placed in the LEO Pharma headquarters in Ballerup. For more information please contact Head of GSSE, Global Safety Surveillance Established, Janni Hermansen at +45 31657438.

We look forward to reading your application. Please send your application no later than 25th of March 2021. Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis and we will take the opportunity to hire the relevant candidate when identified.