Senior Specialist, Quality Management - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Gilead Sciences, Inc.

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Senior Specialist, Quality Management - Patient Safety

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At Gilead, we're creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we've tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world's biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

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Senior Specialist, Quality Management within Strategic Operations, Patient Safety

The Patient Safety (PS) department is a global function that is part of the Development organisation within Gilead. The main Pharmacovigilance activities of PS are centered at three sites: Foster City and Santa Monica in the USA and Cambridge in the UK.

This role is based in Cambridge in the PS Strategic Operations (SO) team, which is responsible for ICSR excellence & operational support of clinical studies, PS alliances & vendor management, operational standards & audit and inspection readiness/support, PS process & training deliverables, medical device expertise and PS systems.

This role is part of the Standards & Inspection Readiness Team, which is the team that establishes standards and targets for quality across operational deliverables for both in-house and outsourced activities, monitors and trends against key performance indicators, maintains inspection readiness across SO and leads inspection and audit activities for SO related processes.

We are seeking a PS expert to manage and support the execution of strategy and ensure operational excellence in the following areas:

• Quality control for both in-house and outsourced ICSR processing
• Support establishment of new standards and development of new QC strategies

Expectations for the above activities includes understanding of global PV regulatory requirements related to the collection, processing and submission of ICSRs both from the clinical trial and post-marketing setting, knowledge of end-to-end ICSR processing, PS interfaces with internal and external sources of safety data, experience in assessment of high-volume and complex data sets, solution-oriented cross-functional collaboration.

Core responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Performs quality control (QC) checks for ICSRs to ensure accuracy and compliance with Gilead conventions and regulatory standards.
• Develops and/or assists with routine or ad-hoc reviews of processes or data entry conventions to ensure compliance with departmental SOPs and guidelines.
• Reviews datasets for trends and may suggest appropriate corrective actions.
• Liaises with Safety Physicians and coding team as required to ensure appropriate medical review and coding assessment is provided for assigned case reports.
• Supports with the oversight of outsourced QC activities to ensure quality and accuracy of deliverables, and that timelines are met appropriately.
• Identifies issues/concerns in a timely and appropriate manner and provides possible solutions.
• Participates in process improvement initiatives as required.

Job Skills:

• Experience analyzing, interpreting and reporting data / information in a PV environment.
• Experience working with drug safety / PV or related systems, databases, and tools.
• Strong communication and writing skills and proficiencies with Microsoft Office suite, as evidenced through abilities to assume assignments and projects with increasing independence.
• Works independently with demonstrated ability to prioritize own work, as evidenced by consistently effective results from previous roles.
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and projects.
• Expected to proactively identify opportunities to increase departmental efficiencies, effectiveness, and optimize resources.
• Able to act as a representative on cross-functional teams and/or projects, and internal audits.
• May participate in assigned projects such as inspection readiness activities or inspection interviews.

Education and Experience: At a minimum, the ideal candidate will possess:

• BA/BS or advanced degree in life sciences or related field with relevant experience in the biopharma industry, regulatory agency, clinical research, or other related healthcare environment, including experience working with medical terms and exposure to GCP and GVP.
• Resource and workload management experience.
• Has an excellent knowledge and understanding of applicable global regulatory requirements.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company. Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual's gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

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Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.