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Requirement for Pharmacovigilance Practice Head – IMS Health, Global Delivery Center

 

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IMS Health is the world’s leading information, services and technology company dedicated to making healthcare perform better. By applying cutting-edge analytics and proprietary application suites hosted on the IMS One intelligent cloud, the company connects more than 10 petabytes of complex healthcare data on diseases, treatments, costs and outcomes to enable our clients to run their operations more efficiently.

Post: Pharmacovigilance Practice Head – IMS Health, Global Delivery Center (Bangalore/Gurgaon)

Job description
Role Purpose:
Grow and manage the pharmacovigilance (PV) services delivery practice at IMS Health’s Global Delivery Center (across Bangalore, Gurgaon, and Colombo offices)

Principal Accountabilities:
- Enable pharmacovigilance/adverse events tracking (PV/AE)  business deals by supporting the onshore teams in the sales cycle, through building/enhancing suitable collateral for the practice, including pitch decks, proposals, project plans, audit plans, SOPs, etc.
- Manage the PV team across different locations
- Liaise with technology team to drive the PV/AE engagements successfully, and leverage automation to enhance productivity as well as quality
- Ensure all projects are managed with pristine quality, and within the timelines agreed upon
- Drive operational excellence in the PV practice, and streamline PV processes
- Drive the culture of metrics and reporting these on a periodic basis, to enhance the quality and operational rigor of the practice
- Ensure rigor in documentation and establish best practices
- Track resourcing and profitability on engagements
- Prepare the team for pharma company PV audits and to successfully undergo these audits
- Establish processes for training as well as certifications required for the PV practice
- Hire smart candidates (fitness for purpose) and groom them
- Drive productivity, smart processes, and policies
- Drive thought leadership and innovation

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Minimum Education, Experience & Specialized Knowledge Required:
- Educational requirements – Life Sciences degree, preferably B.Pharm + M.Pharm (or B.Pharm + MBA), or MBBS from a reputed institute, with respectable scores throughout the academic career
- 10+ years of experience in pharmacovigilance (post-marketing surveillance experience is highly necessary as opposed to AE tracking in clinical trials)
- Experience in both agency/vendor/partner (must-have) and pharma (good-to-have) preferred
- Experience of driving the preparation for audits, and successfully undergoing stringent audits by pharma companies as a PV agency/partner to a pharma company
- Training certifications in pharmacovigilance/adverse events tracking
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience in onshore/offshore model preferred
- Knowledge of and exposure to unstructured data/social media data would be a plus
- High comfort level and affinity to using technology tools in the field of adverse events tracking
- Drive for excellence in work, passion for quality, ability to operate at scale without compromising quality, team building and leadership abilities
- Social adaptability, willingness to adapt to international cultures, work environments and business processes

Additional Requirements:
- Excellent presentation skills
- Drive for perfection, strong attention to detail, and impeccability in delivering publishable output
- Ability to communicate effectively in a complex global business set up since the job will involve routine interaction with international stakeholders
- The candidate should be willing to go through assessment tests and series of interviews, which are, as a practice, administered for recruitment across all levels (including senior-most) in the Nexxus Social Media team, of which the PV team is an integral part

Additional Information:
Qualification:
B.Pharm, M.Pharm, MBA, MBBS
Industry Type: Pharma/ Biotech/Clinical Research
Functional Area: Pharmacovigilance

Division: Pharma
Job Type: Full Time
Employment Type: Permanent
Location:
Bangalore / Gurgaon
Last date: 15th July, 2015

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