Job Description
Manager - Regulatory Affairs & Patient Safety
Do you have expertise in, and passion for Regulatory Affairs? Would you like to apply your expertise in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!
ABOUT ASTRAZENECA
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.
BUSINESS AREA
REGULATORY AFFAIRS
Be part of redefining our future by thinking and acting differently. Be part of delivering our vision to be the leader in Cardiovascular, Renal, Metabolism, Respiratory and Immunology by 2025. We need to build on our heritage and think and act differently to evolve with the healthcare landscape. From becoming a digitally-enabled enterprise to accelerating launches. It means we are forward looking, challenge the status quo, reflect on insights, spot opportunities and act on smart risks.
What you'll do
You will be responsible for patient safety and regulatory affairs matters covering data from clinical studies and the marketed use of AstraZeneca products, defined in the Global SOPs as the Marketing Company Regulatory Affairs and Patient Safety Manager. You will report to Head of Regulatory Affairs and Patient Safety.
Key Duties and Accountabilities
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Develop and implement action regulatory plans for allocated products to achieve requisite approvals rapidly and facilitate rapid launch
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Interact with relevant regulatory authorities on a regular basis to facilitate the process of obtaining necessary approvals / permissions
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Monitor and understand the impact of external changes in the regulatory environment that will impact on the assigned products
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Communicate the impact of changes to key stakeholders.
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Monitor the global pipelines of competing pharmaceutical companies
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Analyse gathered information for its impact on AstraZeneca proposed pipelines
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Provide scenario with options and a risk - benefit analysis for AstraZeneca going forward
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Monitor status of product licenses and communicate changes to licenses status promptly
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Project manage changes in product licenses and coordinate with other changes, planned and in progress
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Provide Leadership and direction within project teams
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Enhance positive attitudes and mindset. Demonstrate confidence and conviction.
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Challenge status quo for continuous improvement.
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Recording and processing of SAEs from clinical studies, and of adverse events from spontaneous and solicited sources, including pregnancy, overdose, lack of effect, medication errors, product quality complaint or health authority reports according to Global and Local standard operating procedures
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Ensures local language medical and scientific literature is periodically reviewed to identify possible case reports, and forwards all the above in a timely manner to the appropriate Data Entry Site (DES) (Patient Safety Standards SOP)
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Ensures that local tracking is maintained in JASPER and captures the date that case reports were received at AstraZeneca, date forwarded to DES, attempts made to obtain follow-up information (applicable to post-marketed reports only), date follow-up data is received, and date submitted to regulatory authorities, where applicable. Where a case has been posted in JASPER but does not qualify for local regulatory submission ensures that the reason is documented. (Patient Safety Standards SOP)
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Providing safety reporting training (and for product quality complaints as required) to other company employees
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Ensures AstraZeneca Pharma India Ltd. personnel are trained on an ongoing basis, on safety reporting requirements and timely reporting to Patient Safety and that any change to Patient Safety procedures is communicated to relevant personnel through appropriate training/coaching.
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Periodic review of Prescribing Information
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Ensures any safety issues/signals in designated therapeutic areas identified by regulatory authorities, media or other local sources or safety related changes to local regulatory requirements are communicated to Global Patient Safety
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Maintains current knowledge of products manufactured and marketed by AZPIL
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Ensure compliance with Local legislation, Global regulatory policies, AZ code of conduct, Corporate Governance and Audit requirement
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Ensure that company confidentiality is maintained (i.e. intellectual property, product information and strategic information)
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Disclose potential breach of codes or conducts
Essential Requirements
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Medical graduation/ M.Pharm / M.Sc/ PhD
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8-12 years' experience in handling Regulatory Affairs and Patient safety (Pharmacovigilance)
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Conversant and relevant experience with Indian regulations related to New product registration, Mfg site registration, Import of new drugs and Clinical trial regulations
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Function specific as well as overall Pharmaceutical industry knowledge
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Ability to build stakeholder relationships
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Strong negotiation and advisory skills
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Analytical mindset and knowledge management
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Passion for Regulatory Affairs and collaborative working style
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Ability to drive performance and act decisively
Desirable Requirements
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Exposure/ Experience in Local Manufacturing activities and PV regulations.
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Knowledge of the latest technical and regulatory developments
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People and organization development ability
Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca we're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There's no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We're on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.
So, what's next?
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Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you.
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Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it's yours.
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If you're curious to know more then please apply to this post and we will revert back to you.
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