Associate Director, Pharmacovigilance Licensing & Business Development

Job Description

New hires based in the US & Puerto Rico will be required to demonstrate that they have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or qualify for a medical or religious exemption or accommodation to this vaccination requirement, subject to applicable law.

Under minimal guidance of the Executive Director/Director, Pharmacovigilance Licensing & Business Development, the incumbent independently assesses, writes, updates and maintains pharmacovigilance business agreements and safety management plans. This includes exchange of adverse experience data with business partners involved with our Company as part of clinical trial investigations, supply agreements, co-marketing agreements, divestitures and co-promotional agreements. Negotiates or participates in the negotiations of pharmacovigilance agreements and safety management plans with Company business partners and CRO partners. In addition, will provide input to the End to End business development stages of strategy, evaluation, due diligence, contracting, implementation and maintenance of regulatory activities relating to our company's business partner deals for all types of business development arrangements including but not limited to divestitures, mergers/acquisitions, in-licensing, out-licensing, collaborations, public private partnerships, distribution, co-marketing, and authorized generic agreements.

Independently organizes, conducts and/or facilitates meetings with business partners, CRO partners, and internal stakeholders for the negotiation of pharmacovigilance agreements and safety management plans and implementation/ maintenance activities in the pharmacovigilance business agreements and safety management plans.

Independently assesses, writes, updates, maintains, and stores business agreements according to internal checklists and guidelines as well as company policies and standards.

Represents Pharmacovigilance Licensing in meetings with internal departments concerning partner agreement reporting responsibilities and process flows. Identifies and prioritizes workload in order to maintain compliance with departmental and regulatory reporting requirements.

Maintains, in collaboration with the Executive Director/Director Pharmacovigilance Licensing & Business Development, the internal guidelines for creating, updating and retention of business partner pharmacovigilance agreements and safety management plans.

Responsible for ensuring that the transfer of legacy data to or from the business partner is appropriate and complete. Assesses the requirements and liaises with Pharmacovigilance Operations team to ensure appropriate data and/or algorithms are updated appropriately based on the requirements of the agreement.

Collaborates with Executive Director/Director, Pharmacovigilance Licensing and Business Development to ensure training needs are assessed; creates and implements appropriate training as applicable in regard to new processes for each business agreement.

End to End responsibility for the Global Clinical Safety & Pharmacovigilance implementation and maintenance for all business development deals including mergers/acquisitions and divestitures.

Act as point of contact for inspections and audits related to business partnerships.

Interact closely with Legal, Business Development, and Alliance Management through the execution of strong processes for managing business development deals in the pre-execution space including due diligence, resource analysis, contractual provisions by deal type, and communications.

The incumbent must be knowledgeable of global regulatory requirements at a general level and must be able to work with all levels of management within and outside of GRACS.

Interact closely with the business system owner for the maintenance of the Business Development Lifecycle Management system used for extraction of key fields from executed contracts and accessed for partner notification of signal detection, CCDS updates, aggregate report review and receipt.

Identify and prioritize agreements in order to maintain compliance with worldwide regulatory requirements.

Education:

• BS Degree preferably in Technical discipline (science, engineering) or Life Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Nursing, Pharmacy) or related discipline

Required Experience:

• A minimum of seven years pharmaceutical experience or relevant professional experience.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and negotiation skills including ability to write clearly and concisely, and the ability to facilitate meetings

• Strong conceptual and analytical thinking skills

• Excellent word processing, SharePoint excel, e-mail, and online meeting tool skills

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities

• Demonstrated ability to network, collaborate, and communicate across cultures, organizational levels and disciplines

• Demonstrated ability to make effective and timely decisions

• Demonstrated sensitivity and knowledge of cultural differences

Preferred Experience:

• Five years experience in Pharmacovigilance/Regulatory/CMC/Quality/Clinical

We are a research-driven biopharmaceutical company. Our mission is built on the simple premise that if we “follow the science” that great medicines can make a significant impact to our world. We believe that a research-driven enterprise dedicated to world-class science can succeed by inventing medicine and vaccine innovations that make a difference for patients across the globe.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization.

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Requisition ID:R152131