Head of Drug Safety

About the Role

This role focuses on strengthening tranScrip’s Drug Safety expertise to ensure successful project delivery and expand revenue opportunities. Key responsibilities include driving growth and evolution of the Drug Safety service offerings, leading and mentoring a team of internal and external experts, ensuring optimal project resourcing, upholding high-quality standards, deepening client relationships, and promoting the functional area internally and externally. Additionally, the role will collaborate with Business Development to attract and retain clients.

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Main Duties and Responsibilities

Functional Area Service Growth and Development:

  • Promote externally tranScrip’s expertise as a leading specialist consultancy.
  • Identify and attend relevant conferences and other industry events to represent tranScrip.
  • Contribute to business development efforts by identifying opportunities for growth within existing and new client relationships and support proposal development.
  • Contribute to pitches and proposals to secure new business.
  • Contribute to account development plans to ensure repeat and expanded business.
  • Act as a key point of contact for key clients to provide strategic insights and address issues
  • Identify and build new service offerings within functional area.

Line Function Leadership and Oversight:

  • Identify, recruit, onboard, and retain a team of top Subject Matter Experts, with complementary technical skills, experience and expertise in the specific functional area, consisting of both employees and subcontractors, to meet the evolving needs of tranScrip’s client project portfolio.
  • Appropriately allocate and monitor resource utilisation across projects to efficiently deliver client projects to high quality.
  • Organise appropriate review mechanisms to ensure outstanding technical quality of deliverables.
  • Provide strong leadership and mentorship to a team of senior level Subject Matter Experts, ensuring their continuous professional development and performance.
  • Conduct regular performance reviews, offering constructive feedback and identifying opportunities for growth.
  • Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture that promotes knowledge sharing, engagement, and accountability.
  • Monitor industry trends and regulatory changes in the pharmaceutical sector to ensure the team’s expertise remains competitive and innovative.
  • Contribute to a rigorous programme of CPD to ensure Line Function and industry knowledge is cutting edge

Subject Matter Expertise:

  • Act as Subject Matter Expert on client projects, providing Line Function leadership for multi-functional projects, ranging from first in man studies to full clinical development, registration, and peri-launch/post-launch plans and or activities.

It should be noted that the above list of main duties and responsibilities is not necessarily a complete statement of the final duties of the post. It is intended to give an overall view of the position and should be taken as guidance only. All employees are kindly requested to apply a level of flexibility to ensure business needs can be met.

Key Requirements and Competencies for the Ideal Candidate

Experience

  • Extensive drug development experience with a track record of progressing assets through translational, clinical or commercialisation milestones
  • Leadership experience within pharmaceutical, biotech or service industry; service industry experience or experience in consulting is advantageous
  • Current working knowledge of GXP guidelines
  • Strategic thinker, comfortable with being hands-on to get things done and with the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and with a healthy understanding of risk and reward
  • Strong network of industry contacts, with a deep understanding of the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors and a demonstrated ability to build and maintain industry relationships
  • Good level of general IT literacy including MS Office suite
  • Outstanding communication, planning and organisational skills
  • Flexible attitude to travel, working with an international client base and towards working individually as well as part of a team.

Qualifications

  • Higher level degree in Scientific, Medical or Commercial / Business discipline (e.g., MSc, PhD, Dip Pharm Med, MBA)

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