Director Safety Reporting Group

Role: Director Safety Reporting Group

Location: Marlow or Southampton

ICON Clinical Research is expanding our Safety Reporting Group. We are currently looking to recruit a Safety Reporting Director, with responsibility for leading a multi-regional team that handles Expedited and Periodic Reporting in Clinical Trials in Asia, Europe, and Americas. You will apply your enthusiasm and profound PV experience to leading a team of Drug Safety Managers and professionals. As a Safety Reporting Director, you will assume responsibility for a number of existing ICON customers, with a view to building and enhancing trust and true partnership. You will work cross-functionally, collaborating with teams in Pharmacovigilance, Project Management, and Clinical Operations departments. This is a high impact and highly visible leadership role within a fast paced, busy environment providing very distinctive opportunity to combine your strong leadership experience with expansion of your robust Pharmacovigilance expertise into Global Safety Reporting. This leadership position will be involved in enhancing a culture of quality and compliance, as well as process improvement with a focus on streamlining our processes adding value to our business and meeting client needs.

The role:

• Leadership and line management of Drug Safety Managers and professionals
• Implementation of processes globally to become a champion of quality and compliance, ensuring the highest standards are maintained across all regions
• Project Management of Standalone Safety Reporting projects
• Analysis of compliance metrics and RCA as part of continuous improvement
• SME for Inspections, external and internal Audits
• Risk mitigation, issue resolution and management of CAPA activities
• Support for RFPs and bid defence
• Improvement and oversight of KPI
• Development of current and new service offerings to aid business growth
• Proactive management of staff and the resolution of business issues

What you need:

• Strong Leadership skills
• Previous experience in management of a global team
• Background in quality and compliance management
• Expertise in business development activities
• Previous experience in change management
• Solid project management skills
• Commercial awareness of RFPs preferred
• Good practical knowledge of Safety Reporting Requirements Globally desired
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Science or Medicine or significant experience within Drug Safety at a senior level

Why join us?

Ongoing development is vital to us, and as a Clinical Data Lead, you will have the opportunity to progress your career, with the potential to move into other related areas to enhance your skill set. Our benefits package is competitive, our scope is international and we genuinely care about our people and their success.

ICON is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.