Director, Patient Safety
By Admin · Pharmacovigilance & Drug Safety
ROLE OVERVIEW
At AstraZeneca, the Director-Patient Safety role in Bangalore is a strategic leadership position within Global Patient Safety. It directly influences how innovative medicines progress from early development through lifecycle management while protecting patients and maintaining regulatory trust. This opportunity matters because patient safety is central to benefit-risk decision-making, signal evaluation, and inspection readiness across AstraZeneca's oncology, respiratory, cardiovascular, and specialty pipelines. The director will lead a regional group, connect safety enablement with cross-functional partners, and shape safety strategy in a global environment. For experienced pharmacovigilance professionals, this is a compelling chance to combine scientific rigor, people leadership, digital innovation, and external regulatory engagement. It offers high visibility, responsibility for compliance and process improvement, and the ability to accelerate safe access to transformative therapies worldwide.
ROLE DEFINITION & RESPONSIBILITIES
- •Lead a regional patient safety group, setting direction, prioritizing resources, and ensuring compliance with global and local pharmacovigilance regulations.
- •Serve as technical lead for assigned products, shaping benefit-risk strategy, signal evaluation, and responses to emerging safety issues.
- •Translate regional and functional patient safety strategy into clear objectives, operating plans, performance measures, and measurable outcomes.
- •Represent AstraZeneca in regulatory interactions, inspections, and industry forums, and strengthen external safety interfaces within India.
- •Lead, coach, evaluate, and develop team leaders and direct reports, identifying succession plans and building future pharmacovigilance capability.
- •Build cross-functional, multi-skilled teams and drive process improvements using digital tools, data analytics, and safety systems.
- •Manage priorities, budgets, resources, and project initiatives across global and regional environments while ensuring audit and inspection readiness.
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in science, pharmacy, nursing, medicine, or healthcare-related field; advanced degree such as MD, PharmD, or PhD preferred.
- Significant experience in hospital, pharmaceutical, clinical research, or healthcare-related patient safety environment, with strong clinical background.
- Proven leadership motivating and empowering teams to achieve individual, team, and cross-functional objectives.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional working groups in global and regional settings.
- Experience setting and managing priorities, resources, performance targets, and project initiatives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, negotiation, teamwork, and interpersonal leadership skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- •Global Regulatory Interactions
- •Budget & Resource Planning
- •Digital Literacy in Safety Systems
- •Therapeutic Area Knowledge (Oncology/Respiratory/CV)
- •Change Management & Process Improvement
REQUIRED VERIFIED SKILLS
COMPENSATION & REWARDS
ORGANIZATION CONTEXT & CULTURE
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialisation of prescription medicines. The company operates in various therapeutic areas, including Oncology, Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism, and Respiratory & Immunology. AstraZeneca is committed to pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines and improve patient outcomes worldwide.
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