Director Pharmacovigilance, Emerging Markets

Are you passionate about ensuring patient safety and compliance in pharmacovigilance? Do you have a knack for strategic oversight and collaboration across international teams? We are looking for a Pharmacovigilance Director to join our team.

This role will be based in either Zurich, Switzerland and will report directly to Corporate Vice President, Clinical and Regulatory, Emerging Markets.

The Position

As a Pharmacovigilance Director, you will lead and oversee the overall pharmacovigilance processes and activities in the Region Emerging Markets to ensure internal and external PV compliance with the ultimate objective of ensuring Patient Safety. Your role will involve providing leadership with PV strategic planning and execution y in the Emerging Market Region including the coordination of pharmacovigilance activities to safeguard patient safety and compliance. You will be the primary regional representative for Emerging Markets in various forums including affiliates, global patient safety organisation and Emerging Markets.  Additionally, you will create and lead the Regional Emerging Markets (REM) PV Leadership Team, which includes affiliate QPPVs and safety responsible persons. You will also have full regional oversight of PV activity, encompassing mapping the process, complexity, and responsibility while respecting regulations and available resources to drive an optimized working model.

Your Main Accountabilities will be:

• Provide leadership with PV strategy in Emerging Market Region including Coordination of Pharmacovigilance activities to safeguard patient safety and compliance
• Proactively identify areas for improvements, provide and drive the solutions to ensure compliance

• Oversee and coordinate all necessary PV compliance activities in alignment with regional and global directives.
• Support audit preparation and training initiatives while ensuring continuity of Pharmacovigilance processes in affiliates without a designated PV responsible person.
• Establish and maintain a robust Pharmacovigilance governance system, complying with local and international regulations, and manage external party governance for Customer Engagement Projects.
• Facilitate the monitoring of local PV regulations, ensuring timely implementation of changes and conducting appropriate audits of third-party service providers.

Qualifications

As a Pharmacovigilance Director, you need to have a University Degree in Pharmacy, Medicine, or a related medical background. Moreover, you need to have over 7 years of experience in Pharmacovigilance with solid international team experience.

To be effective in this role, you should have:

• Demonstrated proven leadership in Pharmacovigilance.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Solution-oriented mindset, agility, business mindset and proactive approach.
• Ability to lead teams without direct reporting lines and drive strategy.
• Advanced English language skills.
• Ability to navigate diverse complex setups and self-motivation.

About the Department

Located in Copenhagen, Denmark, our clinical and regulatory department is at the forefront of ensuring PV compliance and patient safety. We work diligently to safeguard patients by making sure medicines are safe to use, covering both products under development and those already on the market. Our team is dynamic and collaborative, focusing on collecting, analysing, and reporting safety data while continuously looking for new safety signals. Join us in our mission to make a difference in patient safety and regulatory affairs.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development to manufacturing, marketing, and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

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Deadline

Please apply before the deadline 8th June 2025.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.