Pharmacovigilance Processes, Partnerships and

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**What you’ll do**

This role will work in the global Pharmacovigilance Agreements area, negotiating optimal pharmacovigilance agreements and contracts for AstraZeneca whilst establishing excellent collaborations and maintaining positive working relationships with third party partners (i.e. Licensing Partners). Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Negotiating optimal, compliant, pharmacovigilance agreements for AstraZeneca whilst establishing excellent collaborations and maintaining positive working relationships with Partners.
- Providing customers with expert advice, guidance and interpretation of matters pertaining to pharmacovigilance agreements to demonstrate the value of Patient Safety as a key contributor to AstraZeneca internal and external business
- Collaborate with Global Patient Safety, Business Development and Legal providing advice and support for commercial agreements ensuring that optimal and compliant PV obligations are included as required
- Collaborate with Country Team Safety Managers, providing advice and support for the creation and management of local pharmacovigilance agreements.
- Provide support to all Partner audits as required and ensure remediation of findings
- Support the lifecycle management of the Pharmacovigilance Agreements process enabling business continuity and compliance

**Essential for the role**
- A science/pharmacy/nursing degree, with at least 5 years relevant experience (pharmaceutical, regulatory, safety and partnership)
- Experience in working cross-functionally and proven ability to work across cultures
- Leadership skills, including proven leadership of project teams experience
- Thorough scientific knowledge sufficient to understand all aspects of regulatory/pharmacovigilance and partnership issues and thorough knowledge of the drug development process
- Strong collaboration, negotiation, conflict management and interpersonal skills
- Ability to influence whilst maintaining an independent and objective view

**Desirable for the role**
- MSC/PhD in scientific discipline
- Knowledge of new and developing regulatory and pharmacovigilance expectations
- Knowledge of existing AstraZeneca external alliances and collaborative projects
- Knowledge of PS operating model
- Experience of working with third party suppliers.
- Experience of working in a global organisation, preferably within the pharmaceuticals industry, and of the drug development life cycle and commercial aspects of the industry

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