Patient Safety Physician

The arena

The core purpose of AstraZeneca Patient Safety is to add value to AstraZeneca products and safeguard the success of our business by:
Focusing on the protection of patients who receive AstraZeneca products
Delivering high quality product safety information to our customers throughout the product life cycle
Providing integrated strategic safety expertise to clinical development program
Carrying out active pharmacovigilance with rapid identification and analysis of safety signals, to define the safety profile of AstraZeneca products and drive patient risk management
Ensuring regulatory compliance
The Patient Safety Physician make an active contribution to the development of efficient and safe uses for new medicines, as well as helping to maximise the efficacy and safety of drugs already on the market. Your work will be integrated with cross-functional teams in Clinical Development and making an important contribution to our collective knowledge: using your expertise to put a wide variety of issues into a clinical context. The therapeutic areas in which the products are included in are: Cardiovascular, Gastrointestinal, Respiratory and Inflammation.

The job-holder can expect to get broad international exposure to other functions involved in the R&D process, get an overview of how strategic direction is set within Patient Safety and how decisions are made regarding the emerging safety profile of a product during its life-cycle. The Patient Safety Physician will maintain knowledge of the company disease and therapeutic areas for marketed drugs in development.

The role

As a Patient Safety Physician you will be involved in various aspects of strategic planning and ongoing evaluation of the overall safety profile for one or more products and serving as the product safety expert. You will provide medical input to interpretation of preclinical and clinical safety findings, periodic reports, signal-detection activities, and setting safety standards and strategies for clinical development.

The safety surveillance activities are conducted to the highest ethical and safety standards in compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and regulatory requirements.

Minimum experience/requirements
Medical Degree
Relevant clinical or research experience, preferably within the last five years
Proven track record of integrity and high ethical standard
Excellent team-working skills
High and distinct communication skills, proficiency in oral and written English communication
Strategic skill
Preferred experience/requirements
Being a board certified specialist in a relevant field and/or
Demonstrated experimental/clinical expertise
Previous experience from the pharmaceutical industry and/or
Previous experience from pharmacovigilance activities
More information

For more information about the position please contact Maria Ekedahl-Berggren, Group Manager, at +46 708 46 74 33 or Marie Pihl, Group Manager, at +46 702 904 175.

Welcome with your application no later than December 19th 2013.