Associate, Pharmacovigilance

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

Metrics and Oversight of the Pharmacovigilance System

• Supports the provision of metrics that will ensure oversight of all aspects of the performance and functioning of the PV system in compliance with local regulations and internal company timelines/standards.

Quality Management System

• Develops and maintains local/regional procedures in line with corporate procedures and local requirements.
• Performs the impact assessment of new/updated corporate policies, process, and procedures.
• Actively assists with the PV Exception Reporting/CAPA process.
• Actively assists with the business continuity plan and testing.
• Develops and maintains the local PSMF in line with AbbVie’s PV system master file, when required by local/regional regulations

ICSR Management

• Records, processes, and conducts follow up and translates adverse events and other safety information from spontaneous and solicited sources.
• Performs ICSR expedited reporting according to the local requirements.
• Ensures local-language medical or scientific literature review.
• Implements an appropriate local quality control (QC) procedure to ensure quality of information entered and reporting decisions.
• Completes AE reconciliation and ensures AE identification effectiveness sampling consistent with global procedures.

Periodic Safety Reporting

• Reviews periodic safety update reports (PSURs) for a determined TA or product to obtain information on the risk/benefit profile of products and share with the ARMT.
• Leads the preparation of periodic safety reports (e.g., PSUR)., local annexes, local variations, and translation of safety deliverable documents.
• Ensures submission of periodic safety reports and ensures documentation of evidence.

Audits and Inspection Management

• Actively assists in managing internal PV audits, audits of affiliate service providers/third parties and Regulatory Authority PV Inspections.
• Actively assists in the development of CAPA in response to observations and the tracking actions to completion in a timely manner.

Partnership with business partner with possibility for identification and/or handling of safety information

• Ensures all PV requirements are in place for activities where there is a reasonable possibility for the identification and/or handling of safety information in accordance with AbbVie procedures and local requirements.

PV Training

• Ensures overall training compliance with corporate procedures and local PV requirements, including the maintenance of the PV Training Matrix and the development of additional PV training materials, as required.

• Bachelor's degree in health/science discipline.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience is desirable.
• Good writing and oral skills in English and Spanish.
• Computer proficient with Microsoft programs particularly Word and Excel.
• Ability to work with multiple priorities in a work environment with frequent interruptions.
• Ability to perform teamwork.

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