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Global Safety Office - Oncolgy
Sas van Gent Wijk, Belgium
Amsterdam, Netherlands
At a glance
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.
Global Safety Officer - Oncology
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Alternative Locations: Brussels and Ghent, Belgium
- Job type: Permanent, Full time
About the job
Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. Join us as a Global Safety Officer (GSO) - Oncology and you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the safety of our products while contributing to the development of innovative healthcare solutions.
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?
Main responsibilities:
- Provide Pharmacovigilance (PV) and risk management expertise to internal and external customers
- Act as a safety expert for products and maintain knowledge of products, product environment, and recent literature
- Maintain PV expertise, and understanding of international safety regulations and guidelines
- Lead cross functional Safety Management Teams (SMTs)
- Communicate with and represent PV position within project/product teams, with external partners and Health Authorities
- Provide strategic and proactive safety input into development plans
- Support due diligence activities and pharmacovigilance agreements
- Responsible for signal detection and analysis
- Co-lead benefit-risk assessment with other relevant functions
- Ensure generation, consistency, and quality of safety sections in submission documents
- Write responses or contributions to health authorities’ questions
About you
- Advanced degree in a medical or scientific field (ideally MD)
- Extensive experience in pharmacovigilance and risk management
- Clinical experience
- In-depth knowledge of international safety regulations and guidelines
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Proven ability to analyze complex safety data and develop strategic safety plans
- Fluency in English; additional languages are a plus
Why choose us?
- At Sanofi, we believe in continuous learning and development. In this role, you'll have opportunities to stay at the cutting edge of SAP technologies and Treasury best practices regarding the Treasury Management System, with potential for further certifications and professional growth
- We encourage innovative thinking and welcome fresh ideas for process improvements and system optimizations
- We offer a dynamic work environment where your contributions will have a direct impact on our financial operations
- As you grow in this role, there are opportunities for career progression within Sanofi's Treasury and IT functions
- An individual and well-structured introduction and training when you onboard
- 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.
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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- 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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