Résumé
You’ll lead and guide process improvements, drive compliance, and represent Medical Safety in cross-functional projects, ensuring high standards, simplification and impactful change.
About the Role
#LI-Hybrid
Location: Barcelona, Gran Via
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee and provide strategic inputs to process improvements (incl. standardization, simplification) across therapeutic areas in Medical Safety.
- Ensure compliance with global safety regulations and internal standards.
- Drive audit and inspection readiness through process enhancements.
- Represent Medical Safety in cross-functional initiatives and projects.
- Guide transition of process changes into successful project execution.
- Set and monitor quality metrics for medical safety activities.
- Provide expertise and support for process updates and issue management.
- Build & lead a high-performing team to meet process excellence objectives and maintain a sustainable compliance culture.
Essential Requirements:
- Advanced degree in Life Sciences or Healthcare; MD, MBBS, PharmD, or PhD preferred.
- Fluent in spoken and written English.
- Minimum 12 years’ experience in drug development within a major pharmaceutical company.
- At least 5 years in a global role providing strategic inputs for global drug safety, clinical, or medical affairs position.
- Strong leadership and people management skills.
- Excellent negotiation, conflict resolution, and decision-making abilities.
- Strong critical and strategic thinking skills, with proven ability in business proposal development Solid knowledge of drug safety-related processes.
Desirable Skills:
- Results driven, self-starter with proactive working style; committed and accountable, transparent even under pressure.
- Quality oriented.
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
