Medical Safety Lead

Summary

Ready to shape the safety of medicines used by millions worldwide?

As a Medical Safety Lead in Global Health, you will combine clinical insight and scientific expertise to evaluate safety data, detect signals, and guide critical decisions across the product lifecycle. Working with global cross-functional teams, you will play a pivotal role in protecting patients and ensuring the continued success of Novartis therapies.

About The Role

Job Title: Medical Safety Lead – Global Health

Location: Hyderabad, India

Working Model: Hybrid (12 days/month in office)

Key Accountabilities

• Monitor clinical safety data, including literature, case reports, and signal detection activities
• Drive the application of AI-enabled solutions to simplify and enhance pharmacovigilance processes, leveraging knowledge of AI agents and their use in medical safety.
• Conduct medical assessment of individual adverse event cases and ensure accurate evaluation
• Identify, evaluate, and monitor safety signals using single-case and aggregate data
• Contribute to responses for regulatory authorities and healthcare professional safety inquiries
• Support preparation of core safety documents, including clinical overviews and summary reports
• Provide medical input to aggregate safety reports and regulatory submissions
• Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate safety insights across global development teams
• Guide adverse event coding, causality assessment, and interpretation of clinical safety data
  
  

Essential Requirements

• Degree in Pharmacy, Nursing, Pharmacology, Life Sciences, or a medical degree (medical degree required for roles involving medical review of individual case safety reports)
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• At least 3 years’ experience in drug development within a pharmaceutical company (including 2 years in patient safety at an operational or medical position is preferred)
• Experience in clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements, scientific methodology, and statistical principles, including authorship of scientific publications
• Strong ability to analyse, interpret, and clearly communicate clinical safety data to diverse stakeholders
• Experience in safety and cross-functional issue management (e.g., regulatory inquiries, compliance issues, labelling updates, and risk escalations)
• Proven experience contributing to safety reports and regulatory documentation
  
  

Desirable Skills

• Experience of using professional AI tools and agents for process improvement is strongly preferred
• Experience managing clinical safety issues
  
  

If you are passionate about patient safety and want to make a meaningful impact at scale, we encourage you to apply and join us in reimagining medicine together!

Accessibility and accommodation: Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please let us know.

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

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