Senior Scientific Director, Risk Management Architect, Office of Risk Management (Europe-based)
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Schaffhausen, SH
- Research & Development
- Safety
- Full-time
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.
Purpose: Promotes risk minimization strategy and execution through the development and application of a structured, iterative, end-to-end lifecycle risk management framework.
This role is location-independent and can be performed from anywhere within Europe.
Responsibilities:
- Serves as the subject matter expert on Risk Minimization Measures tool development, implementation, and effectiveness evaluation
- Advises Product Safety Teams (PST) and Affiliates on risk minimization measures to support product development programs, new marketing applications, and marketed products.
- Advises the PST Leads and Affiliates on additional risk minimization measures (RMM) tools and implementation.
- Leads the development of the core implementation strategy and core effectiveness evaluation plan in collaboration with the PST and Epidemiology.
- Selects and manages vendors to develop additional RMM when needed
- Ensures appropriate user testing of risk minimization materials in collaboration with the Office of Health Literacy
- Advises local affiliate for additional risk minimization country distribution plans when required
- Supports affiliate inspection and audits with respect to additional RMM
- Assess and recommend industry-leading approaches to best implement additional RMM including the use of digital health tools
- Drive the development and maintenance of an end-to-end lifecycle risk management framework. This includes education, best practices, and standards for risk management processes and activities.
- A champion for building and managing risk management literacy across PSEQ.
Qualifications/Experience:
- Health professional degree (MD, PharmD, RPh, RN or related degree) or master’s degree in life sciences or related field.
- Minimum 10+ years experience in patient safety risk management or related experience for pharma or a regulatory agency.
Desired Skills/Experience:
- Trained or experienced in implementation science, program evaluation, methodological approaches, or outcomes research.
- Knowledge of risk management regulations, guidelines or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience in global drug safety risk management planning activities and generating RMPs
- Ability to lead teams and projects across a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Demonstrated strength in analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Demonstrated strength in oral/written communication
- Excellent mentoring, interpersonal communication (oral, written), negotiation, and influencing skills
- Aptitude in decision-making and problem-solving in a complex environment while influencing multi-functional teams across disciplines, cultures, third-parties, and geographic locations.
- Ability to craft compelling business cases and effectively champion new ideas.
- Ability to effectively frame complex issues for decision-makers, and peers and facilitates lessons learned.
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