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Pharmacovigilance Scientist
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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.
Le contenu du poste est libellé en anglais car il nécessite de nombreuses interactions avec nos filiales à l’international, l'anglais étant la langue de travail.
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Job title: Pharmacovigilance Scientist
- Location: Gentilly
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 our Patient Safety & Pharmacovigilance team as a Pharmacovigilance Scientist (PVS) and you’ll support an international, dynamic, and culturally diverse team dedicated to safety surveillance throughout the product lifecycle of a broad range of products. The PVS is a safety expert who is responsible for performing core pharmacovigilance activities on a product, in partnership with the Global Safety Officer (GSO), to identify safety signals, evaluate, and analyze safety data for both marketed products and products in clinical development.
Main responsibilities:
- Manages proactive signal detection and safety management committee activities
- Coordinates and authors safety evaluations and responses to safety inquiries from internal or external stakeholders (i.e., Health Authorities) in collaboration with the safety team
- Drives end-to-end signal management process for assigned products in collaboration with the GSO and Pharmacoepidemiology
- Serves as a core member (coordinator) of the Safety Management Team, drives the agenda, produces the necessary data/outputs, prepares slide presentations, facilitates discussions & documents conclusions, and presents complete safety analysis
- Partners with the Safety Team to manage other safety related activities associated with new drug applications/regulatory filings, benefit-risk assessment and safety risk management and support activities related to risk minimization including development of Risk Management Plans
- Coordinates and oversees outsourced activities (i.e., signal detection reports, safety evaluation reports)
About you
Experience:
- Working knowledge of drug safety and risk management including industry experience, and understanding of drug development, basic knowledge of regulatory guidelines and medical coding
- Evaluation, interpretation, and synthetization of scientific data
- Knowledge of pharmacovigilance practices including US and EU pharmacovigilance regulatory requirements appreciated
- Signal & Risk Management: Expertise in the collection of drug safety information from a variety of sources throughout the product life cycle to proactively detect, validate, and assess potential signals appreciated
Soft and technical skills:
- Team player that performs effectively in a cross-functional collaborative environment
- Self–motivated, able to prioritize, plan effectively and independently
- Strategic, business oriented, and problem-solving mindset while keeping patients and customers at the forefront
- Ability to present and critically discuss safety data in both internal and external discussions
- Working knowledge of common data processing software and database systems
- Project management skills with demonstrated attention to detail, keeping in mind the broader picture
Education:
- Bachelor of Science or Health Care Professional or preferred advanced health care discipline degree including Registered Nurse, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Nurse Practitioner, Doctor of Pharmacy, PhD, Master of Health Science, Physician Assistant, Registered Pharmacist, Doctor of Medicine/Doctors of osteopathy, etc.
Languages:
- English proficiency in communication skills with scientific subject matter
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
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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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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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