PV Physician

Drug Safety - India

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

As a Drug Safety Physician at ICON, you will oversee the medical aspects of pharmacovigilance activities, ensuring the safety of investigational drugs and contribute to the advancement of innovative treatments and therapies.

What You Will Do:

You will contribute to pharmacovigilance and drug safety activities, taking responsibility for your deliverables and working collaboratively.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide medical review and assessment of adverse event reports from clinical trials and post-marketing sources.
• Evaluate the clinical significance and causality of reported adverse events and provide medical guidance on safety-related issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop risk management strategies and risk minimization measures.
• Contribute to the preparation of safety-related documents, including periodic safety reports and risk management plans.
• Stay abreast of emerging safety concerns and medical literature to inform decision-making and enhance safety surveillance activities.
• Ability to interact directly with the client and provide document-specific advice.

Your Profile:

You will bring relevant pharmacovigilance and drug safety experience, along with the following qualifications and skills.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Medical degree (MD or equivalent) with active medical license.
• MBBS or MD with minimum 2 years of relevant experience in drug safety
• Board certification or equivalent experience in a relevant medical specialty (e.g., internal medicine, pharmacology).
• Relevant scientific and medical knowledge and understanding of relevant drug/device safety regulations and guidelines.
• Strong clinical judgment and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex medical data and make informed decisions.
• Excellent skills in understanding and compiling complex data, analytical and medical judgement and providing context.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Excellent written and oral English language skills
• Willingness to travel as required (approximately 15%)

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

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON 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.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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