Why Patients Need You
Pfizer Worldwide Medical and Safety colleagues play a key role in connecting evidenced based, medical decision support with colleagues and stakeholders to enable better health and treatment outcomes. Whether you are creating framework necessary to ensure our evidence is scientifically sound, providing unbiased, medically necessary expertise or investigating how to close gaps in data, our mission is simple. Empower healthcare decisions regarding the safe and appropriate use of medicines for patients.
What You Will Achieve
Pfizer is excited to present a Safety Surveillance Associate opening within our Safety organization. In this role you will have the charge of reviewing, preparing, and completing reports of adverse drug experiences, to determine the safety profile of Pfizer's products and to meet regulatory requirements.
How You Will Achieve It
- Identify and select routine cases for processing, determining appropriate prioritization criteria, and noting reasons for any delays.
- Assess cases to distinguish those with particular complexities and/or specific issues, and escalate appropriately.
- Review, rank, verify, process and document: event terms; case classifications (validity, seriousness, expectedness/listedness/labeledness); special scenarios; product complaint information; reportability with due date; and accuracy and consistency. Based on assessment of cases, process accordingly.
- Review case criteria to determine the appropriate workflow for case processing.
- Write and edit the case narrative.
- Generate reports, ensuring adherence to regulatory compliance timelines.
- Determine appropriate case follow-up, requesting follow-up letters when appropriate.
- Liaise with key partners, including Pfizer Country Organizations, Clinical Development, License Partners, and other stakeholders regarding safety data collection and data reconciliation.
- Develop and maintain expertise and knowledge of all products within the Pfizer portfolio; applicable corporate and global regulations, guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures and writing practices; data entry conventions; and search functions in the safety database.
Technical Skill Requirements
- Demonstrated computer literacy, particularly in the use and management of relational databases.
- Ability to achieve personal objectives while meeting departmental standards of performance.
- Ability to work under supervision in a matrix organization.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
**Qualifications**:
Must-Have- Bachelor's degree in a science-related field, pharmacy, nursing, or equivalent; healthcare professional qualification preferred.- Health Care Professional (HCP), (nurse, pharmacist, etc.)- Ability, with supervision, to solve routine problems and to surface issues constructively.- Ability to make basic decisions with an understanding of the consequences.- Knowledge of ARGUS safety database
Nice-to-Have- Experience in pharmacovigilance, in clinical care, or in clinical or scientific research.- Knowledge of additional language(s) an advantage.- Experience and skill with medical writing an advantage.
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
On Premise colleagues work in a Pfizer site because it's needed to get their job done. They may have flexibility to work remotely from time to time, but they are primarily on-site.
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, or disability.
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