Pharmacovigilance Compliance Manager - EU remote

At ICON, it’s our people that set us apart. Our diverse teams enable us to become a better partner to our customers and help us to fulfil our mission to advance and improve patients’ lives.

Our ‘Own It’ culture is driven by four key values that bring us together as individuals and set us apart as an organisation: Accountability & Delivery, Collaboration, Partnership and Integrity. We want to be the Clinical Research Organisation that delivers excellence to our clients and to patients at every touch-point. In short, to be the partner of choice in drug development.

That’s our vision. We’re driven by it. And we need talented people who share it.
If you’re as driven as we are, join us. You’ll be working in a dynamic and supportive environment, with some of the brightest and the friendliest people in the sector, and you’ll be helping shape an industry.

The role:

Working as part of our global Pharmacovigilance and ICON Strategic Solutions, you take responsibility for managing the compliance team and the activities contracted by our clients and across our business unit to help drive our strategic vision for continual improvement and compliant deliverables.

This is a remote-based role for maternity cover with a fixed-term contract for 24 months.

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Provide compliance support to our department, including the review of quality events, CAPAs

• Audits/inspection prep and follow up

• Provide ad hoc support to business unit team members with compliance queries or questions

• Support and champion our initiative for improving our compliance culture within PVS (Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety)

• Provide direct support to client project teams where there are significant compliance issues

• Plans, organizes and manages performance of individuals and teams; delegates effectively, leveraging team members relative strengths; provides timely recognition and coaching; develops others

• Demonstrate the ability to critically assess and address the need for addition of new service lines into the SOW (scope of work)

• Work closely with the Project Manager and Director of Project Delivery and report any shortcomings and difficulties encountered to strategies towards solutions

• Support all activities related to project compliance revenue, including assessing forecasted units against actual units to support planning of resources

• Proactively engage and communicate with clients to understand their needs ensuring client satisfaction and driving increased value for them, whilst taking the organisation's costs and benefits into account

We want our employees to prosper and ensure that they are set up for this success through constant training, development and support. To enable success in this position, you will be confident, methodical and able to manage your time.

You bring:

• Previous experience in Pharmacovigilance

• Previous experience in line management (large global PV teams)

• Previous experience in a compliance environment, preferably within Pharmacovigilance e.g.:

  • Quality events

  • CAPAs

  • Deviations

  • Root cause analysis

  • Audits / inspections

  • Metrics

  • Trend analysis

• Working across global teams and time zones.

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

• Confident at presenting to stakeholders

• A common-sense and methodical approach to your work

 
Benefits of Working in ICON:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

We offer very competitive salary packages. And to keep them competitive, we regularly benchmark them against our competitors. Our annual bonuses reflect delivery of performance goals – both ours and yours.
We also provide a range of health-related benefits to employees and their families and offer competitive retirement plans – and related benefits such as life assurance – so you can save and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
But beyond the competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits, you’ll benefit from an environment where you are encouraged to fulfil your sense of purpose and drive lasting change.

ICON is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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