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Pharmacovigilance Associate & Country Safety Head Backup

Yaqum, Israel
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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 Associate & Country Safety Head Backup

  • Location: Yakum, Israel
  • Hiring Manager: Irena Shinkar
  • 8-month fixed-term position

About the job

As a Pharmacovigilance Associate and Country Safety Head Backup, you will support pharmacovigilance activities in Israel and serve as backup to the Country Safety Head and QPPV, ensuring continuous compliance with local and international pharmacovigilance regulations while maintaining the highest standards of patient safety.

Your key responsibilities will include monitoring diverse safety information sources to ensure timely detection and appropriate management of incoming pharmacovigilance data, assisting in the overall evaluation of pharmacovigilance information, and reporting safety related information to relevant stakeholders including Health Authorities. You will support local safety surveillance activities, including the management of safety signals and assessment of new safety information, and support to risk management activities.

You will serve as the designated backup to the Country Safety Head (CSH) and QPPV, ensuring continuity of pharmacovigilance operations and regulatory compliance during absences. In this capacity, you will maintain Israel's primary pharmacovigilance contact relationship with Health Authorities and provide support for strategic safety leadership when required.

Main responsibilities:

  • Ensure accurate and timely management of pharmacovigilance data including individual case reports, aggregate reports, any PV administrative tasks,  local literature monitoring, reconciliation and quality checks.
  • Assess safety data to identify trends , potential safety observations, and potential signals; notify new safety information to local Health Authority and/or respond promptly to corporate and Health Authority queries.
  • Ensure local pharmacovigilance activities comply with PSPV policies, global /local PV regulations and all processes and data are always inspection and audit ready.
  • Support risk management activities and implementation of risk minimization measures in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
  • Maintain and update PV procedures in line with current regulations and global company policies, supporting training, compliance activities, and corrective and preventative actions.
  • As designated backup to the Country Safety Head/QPPV, ensure continuity of pharmacovigilance operations and regulatory compliance during absences, including maintaining Health Authority contact relationships and supporting strategic safety leadership when required

About you

  • Education: Medical Doctor, Pharmacist, Pharm D, Veterinary Doctor, Health Sciences degree (such as nurse) or Health Sciences master’s degree.
  • Experience: Preferable 1-2 years of pharmacovigilance experience.​
  • Language knowledge: Hebrew and English on Advanced level (oral and written as well)
  • Core Competencies:

·         Demonstrated attention to detail, accuracy and diligence in all work

·         Ability to share knowledge openly and align around shared goals

·         Collaborate effectively across teams and cultures

·         Build trust and maintain professional relationships with diverse stakeholders

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.

Why choose us?

· Join a leading pharmaceutical company and contribute to improving health outcomes worldwide.

· Be part of a company at the forefront of medical research and breakthrough therapies.

· Thrive in an environment that values diversity of thought and background.

· Work closely with global and local teams, gaining exposure to various aspects of the pharmaceutical business.

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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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