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Country Safety Lead Singapore
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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.
R2820905 Country Safety Lead Singapore
- Location: Singapore
- Job Type: Full time Permanent
About the Job
As Country Safety Head, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring that patients in Singapore and the wider Export Markets benefit from safe and effective use of Sanofi products. You will lead local pharmacovigilance (PV) operations, representing Sanofi to health authorities, building strong cross-functional partnerships, and ensuring inspection readiness. With your expertise, you will safeguard patient well-being and support the benefit–risk optimization of Sanofi’s therapies across diverse markets.
At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing science and innovation responsibly to protect people and improve lives worldwide. Join us as Country Safety Head and you can help make it happen.
Main Responsibilities
- Act as the local Responsible Person for Pharmacovigilance (RPP) in Singapore, as required by national regulations.
- Ensure all PV activities comply with global, regional, and local regulations and Sanofi Quality standards.
- Maintain inspection readiness and act as the primary PV contact for local health authorities.
- Build and lead high-performing PV teams, ensuring training, capability development, and operational excellence.
- Oversee local PV partnerships and outsourced activities, ensuring compliance with agreements and regulatory requirements.
- Manage local PV resources and budget in collaboration with global functions.
- Collaborate with Medical, Regulatory, Quality, Commercial, Legal, and Country Leadership teams to ensure aligned and compliant PV practices.
- Provide oversight of Export Market PV activities managed by Singapore, ensuring partner markets meet PV agreements and compliance standards.
About You
- Significant experience in pharmacovigilance, including regulatory authority interactions.
- Strong knowledge of national and international PV regulations, safety data management, and compliance requirements.
- Skilled in signal detection, risk assessment, and benefit–risk evaluation across the product life cycle.
- Strong leadership and team management capabilities in a multicultural, cross-functional environment.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage partners and regulators.
- Strategic, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to prioritize effectively.
- Advanced degree in a healthcare discipline (MD, PharmD, PhD, MPH, Master of Science, Veterinary Doctor) or equivalent qualification. An MBA is a plus.
- Full professional proficiency in English (written and verbal).
Why Choose Us?
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- 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.
- Gain unique international exposure by overseeing both Singapore and Export Markets in Southeast Asia.
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.
nullPursue 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.
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