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Drug Safety Manager

Alkermes · alkermes.com
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The job in short

Drug safety team management.

OracleAuditCompliance

Details

Found
19 d ago · posted 2026-10-08
Location as listed
Waltham, MA, United States
Role
Pharmacovigilance / Drug Safety Specialist
Pay (as listed)
$145,000–$157,000 a year
Source
The company’s own careers site

Full description

The Drug Safety Manager provides operational leadership and hands-on oversight for end-to-end case management and regulatory submission activities across all marketed products. The role serves as a key liaison among internal case processors, the pharmacovigilance vendor, Medical Information, Medical review team, Product Complaint, Medical Affairs, and other cross-functional partners. The successful candidate will apply strong Argus expertise, sound pharmacovigilance judgment, disciplined documentation practices, and project management skills to ensure compliant, high-quality, and timely safety operations. Market Product Case Management & Regulatory Submissions • Provide end-to-end operational oversight of adverse events and product complaint-linked safety cases for all marketed products, from intake and triage through case closure and regulatory submission. • Ensure cases are evaluated, coded, documented, quality reviewed, followed up, and submitted in accordance with applicable global regulatory requirements, company procedures, safety data exchange agreements, and established timelines. • Understand global expedited reporting and submission requirements, including reporting rules, destinations, timelines, acknowledgements, rejections, and resubmission processes. • Monitor submission status and compliance; investigate late, failed, duplicate, or rejected submissions and drive timely, well-documented resolution. • Provide subject matter expertise for complex case processing and submission questions and support reconciliation and data-quality activities. Argus Safety Database Expertise & Data Quality • Demonstrate strong working knowledge of Oracle Argus Safety, including case workflows, data entry conventions, coding, reporting rules, worklists, queries, case locking, and electronic submission outputs. • Use Argus data, workflow status, audit trail information, and reports to assess case progression, identify gaps, and confirm required actions are complete. • Partner with safety systems, regulatory, and vendor teams to investigate system or submission issues, document impact, support testing, and verify issue resolution. Vendor Governance & Operational Oversight • Provide day-to-day oversight of outsourced case processing and submission activities and determine whether vendor deliverables meet regulatory, procedural, quality, and timeline expectations. • Review vendor outputs, metrics, work queues, compliance trends, quality findings, deviations, and recurring issues; ensure corrective actions are assigned, documented, and completed. • Maintain clear accountability between sponsor oversight and vendor execution, including effective communication, escalation, and decision-making pathways. • Build a collaborative working relationship between vendor case processors and internal stakeholders, including Medical Information, Medical review team, Product Complaint, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and Safety Systems. Cross-Functional Liaison & Relationship Management • Serve as the primary operational liaison between MICC and the broader cross-functional team for safety intake, case processing, follow-up, reconciliation, product complaints, medical information inquiries, and related handoffs. • Clarify roles, responsibilities, inputs, outputs, and timelines across case processors, medical review team, Product Complaint, Medical Information, and vendor teams. • Facilitate timely information exchange and resolution of ownership, process, or data discrepancies affecting case quality or reporting compliance. Documentation, Compliance & Inspection Readiness • Maintain contemporaneous documentation of oversight activities, decisions, issue assessments, escalations, action plans, and closures. • Author, review, and maintain SOPs, work instructions, process maps, conventions, job aids, meeting minutes, decision logs, deviation documentation, CAPAs, and other operational records. • Ensure documentation demonstrates sponsor oversight and provides a traceable rationale for key case management and submission decisions. • Support audits, inspections, health authority inquiries, and internal reviews as a case management and submissions subject matter expert. Team Leadership & Oversight of Junior Staff • Provide functional oversight, coaching, and day-to-day guidance to junior case processors and other assigned team members. • Review work for quality, completeness, consistency, and compliance; provide timely feedback and reinforce documented standards. • Support onboarding, training, knowledge transfer, priority of workload, and development of case processing capabilities. Project Management, Problem Solving & Conflict Resolution • Lead or support operational projects, including process improvements/efficiencies, product launches or transitions, vendor changes, system enhancements, data remediation, and compliance initiatives. • Develop project plans, define deliverables and dependencies, track actions, manage risks and issues, and communicate status to stakeholders. • Work independently with minimal supervision, prioritize competing demands, and drive activities to completion. • Use sound judgment and structured problem solving to resolve operational issues and facilitate conflict resolution across functions and vendors. • Escalate material compliance, quality, timeline, or resource risks with a clear assessment and recommended path forward. • Clinical or life sciences degree required; RPh, PharmD, BSN, RN, or equivalent preferred. • Three to five years of drug safety, pharmacovigilance, or clinical safety experience, including marketed product case management and regulatory submissions. • Experience overseeing PV vendors or outsourced case processing activities. • Experience leading projects and providing guidance or oversight to junior case processors. Alkermes has recently adopted a hybrid working environment to support and meet the needs of employees and this role will operate in a flexible environment with 60% of time in the office and 40% from home. This position is eligible for the hybrid workplace model, requiring work to be completed onsite at our Waltham, MA office at least 3 days per week. This role is not eligible for fully remote work. The annual base salary for this position ranges from $145,000 to $157,000. In addition, this position is eligible for an annual performance pay bonus. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, training, knowledge, and experience. Alkermes offers a competitive benefits package. Additional details can be found on our careers website: www.alkermes.com/careers#working-here #LI-MB1

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