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Pharmacovigilance Coordinator
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Bring your curiosity to a team where deep immunoscience meets cutting-edge innovation. Across oncology, rare diseases, neurology, and vaccines, you’ll work at the intersection of lab science and AI-powered discovery — all while collaborating across boundaries to turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact. Whether you want to deepen your scientific expertise or grow as a leader, you’ll find the opportunity here.
Pharmacovigilance Coordinator
Location:São Paulo
About the Job
Are you ready to make a real difference in patient safety? Join Sanofi's Patient Safety & Pharmacovigilance (PSPV) team as a Pharmacovigilance Coordinator in São Paulo, Brazil, and play a key role in ensuring the safe and appropriate use of our products. You'll support local safety surveillance activities, handle periodic safety reports (i.e. PBRERs), risk management plans (RMPs), manage Health Authority Safety Requests, develop deep knowledge of the safety profile of the assigned products, and serve as a strategic partner for product launches — connecting global risk management strategies with local regulatory and business needs.
We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We're also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?
About Sanofi:
We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
Main responsibilities:
• Ensure local pharmacovigilance activities comply with global, regional and local regulations, supporting the safe use of Sanofi products in Brazil;
• Build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships with Medical, Regulatory, Quality, Patient Support Program, Call Center, Commercial, Launches Excellence, Legal and Brand teams to carry out and monitor local safety activities;
• Act as a strategic safety partner for product launches, connecting global risk management strategies with local business and regulatory needs across pre-launch, launch and post-launch stages;
• Serve as Local Safety Officer for assigned products, overseeing safety surveillance, signal detection and management, periodic safety reports, and risk management plans;
• Support the development and implementation of Risk Minimization Measures and contribute to local labeling updates and safety documents review;
• Support the Country Safety Head to maintain the local pharmacovigilance quality system, compliance metrics, root cause analyses, corrective actions and inspection readiness activities.
Individual contributors
• Maintain knowledge of and comply with the principles of Ethics and Integrity, Sanofi policies and codes of conduct that regulate the pharmaceutical market.
• Comply with and promote Sanofi Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) policies, with the aim of preventing accidents, avoiding health risks, promoting employee well-being and reducing environmental impacts resulting from the execution of work activities.
• Support Sanofi Diversity & Inclusion strategy and initiatives to ensure all employees and partners are treated with respect and receive equal opportunities.
About You
Experience:
• Background in pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs, quality, medical or clinical development, with experience in safety-related product management;
• Solid knowledge of pharmacovigilance systems and regulations, with the ability to interpret clinical and safety data;
• Experience with safety documents such as Risk Management Plans (RMPs) and Periodic Benefit-Risk Evaluation Reports (PBRERs);
• Appropriate experience with Regulatory Agency interactions
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across international, cross-functional teams
• Problem-solving mindset with a sense of urgency and the ability to work effectively under pressure
• Degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, Health Sciences or related field (PhD, MPH or Master's also considered)
• Advanced Professional English is required
Why Choose Us
• Play a meaningful role in protecting patients by shaping local pharmacovigilance strategy and connecting it to global safety standards.
• Work within a dynamic, multicultural and international team that values collaboration, diversity and scientific excellence.
• Be at the forefront of drug safety in one of the world's leading innovative healthcare companies, with direct impact on patients' lives in Brazil and beyond.
• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.
Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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- Expand your horizons. Grow through curiosity, with support to move, learn, and lead in a culture that champions mentorship, mobility, and bold development.
- Accelerate results with technology. Harness the power of AI and automation to push scientific boundaries and reimagine what's possible in drug discovery.
- Impact through inclusive innovation. Help deliver better science and fairer outcomes by driving inclusive research that reaches more people, in more meaningful ways.
- Turn patient needs into breakthrough science. Drive scientific breakthroughs that start with patient needs – and end in treatments that change lives.
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