Associate Medical Safety Director- Sponsor Dedicated (Home-Based)
IQVIA · 10 Locations · Global
Medical Affairs
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Demand72
Career growth66
Healthcare fit62
Remote potential95
5-year outlook
Senior pharmacovigilance/medical safety roles in CROs and pharma typically pay comfortably above typical clinical salaries and are relatively resilient to economic cycles, with growth tied to outsourcing and expanding safety-reporting obligations. Exact figures vary widely by geography, therapeutic area, and prior PV experience.
Clinical license
Required
Applicant reach
narrow
Seniority
senior
Employment type
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Date found
2026-10-20
Intelligence details
Why this is worth applying to
Worth considering if you already have pharmacovigilance, clinical-trial, or drug-safety exposure and want a home-based, senior pharma career; clinicians with no PV background are unlikely to clear the bar at Associate Director level.
Who should apply
Physicians (including IMGs with pharma/CRO exposure) and pharmacists who have worked in pharmacovigilance, medical review of ICSRs, clinical development, or regulatory safety; clinicians who have led safety committees or authored aggregate reports.
CV angle
Reframe real clinical work as safety surveillance: adverse drug reaction recognition and reporting, causality and severity assessment, use of MedDRA-type terminology, guideline/regulatory awareness (ICH, GVP), and cross-functional collaboration with pharmacy, nursing, and lab teams. Quantify case volumes, audit/inspection outcomes, and any protocol, publication, or committee work — never claim PV systems or sponsor experience you do not have.
Skills to highlight
- Adverse event / ADR identification and reporting
- Causality, severity, and expectedness assessment
- Clinical pharmacology and therapeutic-area expertise
- Medical review of individual case safety reports
- Signal detection and benefit-risk evaluation
- Aggregate safety report authoring (PSUR/PBRER)
- Knowledge of ICH/GVP and FDA/EMA safety requirements
- Cross-functional and sponsor-facing communication
Role summary
A sponsor-dedicated medical safety leadership role at IQVIA, home-based, focused on pharmacovigilance: medical review of adverse event cases, signal detection, benefit-risk assessment, and safety documentation for a client's product portfolio.
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