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Pharmacovigilance Trainee (PV Trainee)

Porto Salvo, Portugal Internship Date posted 01/07/2024
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Pharmacovigilance Trainee (PV Trainee)

About the Opportunity

Directly reporting to Country Safety Head (CSH) of Portugal. You will provide support to the Safety Country in the Case Management activities, Risk Management Plan implementation at local level, Safety signal detection, Websites monitoring. Local Safety Trainee for all products from Sanofi portfolio. 

About Sanofi Business Unit

In this area, you will find an international work environment in which you can display your talents and make ideas and innovations in teams. You can design your personal career at Sanofi and we support and accompany your professional and personal development with determination. As a company dedicated to health care, Sanofi offers diverse and global professional careers.

Key responsibilities

Accountable for compliance with laws, regulations and company standards for adequate safety management of products registered in Portugal.

Responsible to support CSH on the case management and safety management activities like the following:

  • Adverse Drug Reactions/Adverse Drug Events;
  • Periodic Reports;
  • Risk Management Plans;
  • Product Safety Alerts;
  • Safety questions raised by local Health Authorities and Health Care Professionals;
  • PV requirements in Digital Marketing Projects/Market Research Projects;
  • Local Health Authorities’ website monitoring;
  • Local labeling review (safety sections);
  • Reconciliation of local SDEA and local product lines;
  • Inspection readiness.

Responsible to complete all training for which he/she is assigned in due time.

About You

Essential requirements:

  • Educational background: Pharmacy or Biology;
  • Healthcare professional background (pharmacy, other);
  • Appropriate proficiency in English (written and verbal) and Portuguese;
  • Interpersonal skills of diplomacy and team player dynamics;
  • Knowledge of and respect for cultural differences;
  • Professionalism and arbitration;
  • Ability to work in international and transversal teams;
  • Computer package knowledge;
  • English language skills advanced;
  • Able to sign an internship agreement/Educational Cooperation Agreement with your educational institution.

It will be nice to have:

  • Spanish language skills advanced.

What Sanofi can offer you

  • 1-year contract (March 2021 – February 2022);
  • A role where you are instrumental to creating best practice and, as the organization grows, you can too;
  • This is a full time role and we support flexible working;
  • We have highly subsidized restaurant;
  • Parking available onsite.

About Sanofi

Empower Life Everyday

At Sanofi, we work across human health from vaccines to rare diseases, and consumer healthcare. This creates opportunities to work across different areas to build a diverse and exciting career. Sanofi has the capabilities and resources to support your aspirations to fulfill your ambitions and be the best you can be.

Our purpose at Sanofi is to work passionately every day to understand and solve healthcare needs of people across the world. Our ambition is by 2025, to be a top three innovative, global and diversified human healthcare company. One that embraces transformative technologies and is focused on its area of excellence, which means we are not there to try to solve everybody’s problems. We want to focus on those areas where we know we are making a difference.  

The values we are live by are teamwork, courage, respect and integrity.

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