Associate Pharmacovigilance Specialist

The Associate pharmacovigilance specialist performs pharmacovigilance services such as biomedical literature monitoring and assessing for adverse events reporting, indexing, and abstracting by using broad knowledge of scientific terms and medical terminology, drugs and therapeutic areas, and pharmacovigilance regulations.

About You - Education, Experience, Skills

• Master’s Degree in life Sciences, Health, or Biomedical Sciences (Pharmacy, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Biophysics etc.).
• A degree in Dentistry/physiotherapy/Nursing, which involves patient exposure in hospital-based environment, would be an advantage.
• At least 1-2 years of experience reviewing biomedical literature for adverse event reporting OR equivalent combination of education and experience (i.e., an information science degree with at least 1 year of relevant working knowledge of supporting drug and patient safety)
• Related experience in drug safety/ pharmacovigilance is desirable.
• Strong analytic ability to analyse and summarize the main points of biomedical case reports, studies, or specific topics.
• At least 1 year of experience using writing skills to support the creation of succinct, accurate, and precise summaries.
• At least 1 year of working knowledge of biomedical terminology, drugs, and therapeutic areas
• Excellent English language skills (comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing).
• Working knowledge of biomedical terminology, drugs, and therapeutic areas.
• Experience with commercial and client-specific biomedical literature databases.
• Flexibility and adaptability to changing client needs.
• Ability to work effectively, independently, and collaboratively.
• Basic computer literacy.
  
  

• Certification from a professional medical writer’s association
• Experience with commercial and client-specific biomedical literature databases
• Scientific/medical writing background