Head of Patient Safety France

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Position Summary:
Leadership
- Represent Patient Safety as a member of the French Leadership Team and as key partner with the local/regional leadership and the local/regional business leads, and contribute to the overall goals of the local organization through effective collaboration with all stakeholders
- Lead, support and guide the Patient Safety Team in France and provide leadership on patient safety matters
- Hold primary responsibility and accountability for all country pharmacovigilance/patient safety activities.
- Health Authority nomination as safety contact as required
- Functional reporting to the Responsible Pharmacist (Chief Pharmaceutical Officer) and support requirements related to ‘French exploitant’ status and French regulatory requirements
- Represent BMS for safety related matters with the Health Authority and external partners/organizations, such as industry associations. Actively participate in negotiations, and discussions on safety related topics
- Maintain a strong open relationship with cross-functional stakeholders
- Drive awareness of patient safety regulations/requirements with all appropriate functional teams locally and globally
- Represent the country/region in collaboration with International and Global patient safety teams to build effective and efficient working practices
- Utilize an effective decision-making process, demonstrates strong judgment, decisiveness, and ability to balance the operational and strategic needs thereby enhancing the success of BMS in collaboration with concerned stakeholders
- Supervisory responsibilities as line manager for the local Patient Safety organization. Select and/or develop a dedicated team of Patient Safety professionals as necessary. Create a robust learning environment, leveraging shared experiences and promote best practice sharing as well as a culture of accountability, inclusion, innovation, and integrity
- Role model BMS values and behaviors with a strong focus on integrity and ethics

Compliance
- Endorse and implement a culture of compliance, act as a role model demonstrating consistent ethical and professional behavior
- Ensure adherence to all external and internal regulations and requirements
- Ensure audit/inspection readiness and lead cross-functional (local/regional) teams in collaboration with quality stakeholders and Patient Safety country leads to ensure effective conduct of audits/inspections

Position Responsibilities:

- Risk management and risk minimization activities
- Provision of safety information
- Implementation of pharmacovigilance Audit and Inspection Readiness
- Planning, processing, and reporting of Aggregate Reports to HA and EC as applicable
- Maintenance of pharmacovigilance Awareness and Training
- Implementation of Pharmacovigilance Agreements and/or SAE Management plans
- Collection, follow-up and forwarding of spontaneous, literature, solicited, post
- marketing AE cases as applicable
- Submission of single cases to local Health Agencies (HA) and Ethics Committees (as required)
- Local Market Safety Data Quality

**Requirements**:

- Life Science University degree; Medicine or Pharmacy with appropriate country council registration (Conseil de l’Ordre des Médecins/des Pharmaciens)
- 10 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry, usually with at least 5 years’ experience working in Pharmacovigilance or in a closely aligned field in the respective country(ies)
- Line management experience
- Strong leadership and people management capability
- Ability to build effective working relationships with cross-functional teams
- Ability to develop excellent working relationship with the local HA or country HA liaison group/body where such opportunities exist
- Demonstrated skills in problem-solving, including in challenging and ambiguous situations
- Demonstrated ability to drive change and respond to changing environment
- Strong understanding of GxP and expert knowledge of local and global regulations specifically GVP requirements
- Clear understanding of the broader impact and possible implications on processes/the environment
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate difficult safety/compliance issues and influence internal and external partners
- Excellent communication skills (French and English)
- Minimal travel required in this position. Trips could include travel to BMS sites, Health Authorities and t