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Country Safety Specialist
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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.
Job title: Country Safety Specialist
About the job
As Country Safety Specialist within our Patient Safety and Pharmacovigilance (PSPV) team, you'll play a key role in protecting patients and ensuring the safe use of Sanofi's medicines across the Eurasia region. Working closely with a dedicated Eurasia team, you'll oversee local pharmacovigilance activities, contribute to benefit-risk assessments, and collaborate with medical, regulatory, and commercial teams to turn safety insights into real-world impact. If you're passionate about patient safety and ready to make a difference in a dynamic, international environment — Ready to get started?
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.
Main responsibilities:
● Ensure safe use of Sanofi products by managing safety case reports, monitoring adverse events, and supporting local pharmacovigilance activities in compliance with global and local regulations
● Support the Multi-Country Safety Head with day-to-day safety operations, including signal detection, risk management, patient support programs, and market research oversight
● Build and maintain strong working relationships with Medical, Regulatory, Quality, Commercial, Legal teams and country leadership to ensure aligned safety practices
● Review scientific literature, prepare periodic safety reports, and contribute to benefit-risk assessments for all Sanofi products in your assigned countries
● Help implement and monitor risk minimization measures and safety requirements for local programs, working cross-functionally to protect patient safety
● Support pharmacovigilance training and education initiatives within the local organization, including training for service providers and partners
● Uphold the highest ethical and professional standards, taking personal accountability for compliance with Sanofi policies and relevant legal requirements
About you
Experience: Background in pharmacovigilance or drug safety, with hands-on experience in case management, signal detection, and regulatory interactions
Soft & technical skills:
Solid knowledge of pharmacovigilance regulations and safety data management across multiple sources
Ability to evaluate safety signals and support risk management activities
Strong communicator who can work effectively across functions and cultures in an international environment
Collaborative, solution-oriented, and able to prioritize in a fast-paced setting
Education: Advanced degree in a health-related field (e.g. Medicine, Pharmacy, Life Sciences) or equivalent — essential for performing the role
Languages: Full professional proficiency in English
Why choose us?
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.
● Make your work count by supporting a company that brings life-changing treatments to millions — and is committed to doing right by patients, communities, and the planet.
● Drive progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably.
● Support teams across science, medicine, and operations by building better systems, shaping bold strategies, and enabling innovation at speed.
● Make an impact across borders and functions, collaborating with leaders to turn complex challenges into real-world solutions.
● Advance your career through stretch roles, cross-functional moves, and development opportunities designed to match your ambition.
● Thrive in inclusive, high-performing teams where every role matters and every voice helps shape what’s next.
PursueProgress. 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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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.
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.
Watch 'One day at Sanofi' and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives at sanofi.com
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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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