Senior Specialist, Patient Safety

Position summary

The Local Market Patient Safety Specialist plays a key role in ensuring robust, compliant, and consistent safety and risk management across all territories where BMS operates. This position supports the execution of pharmacovigilance (PV) activities in accordance with local regulatory requirements, legal obligations, and BMS procedures, under the supervision of the Local Market Patient Safety (LMPS) Lead or designee.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Risk Management Plans.
• Provide safety information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Support PV audit and inspection readiness activities.
• Plan, process, and report Aggregate Safety Reports to Health Authorities and Ethics Committees (as required).
• Maintain PV awareness and deliver training programs.
• Implement Pharmacovigilance Agreements.
• Collect, follow-up, and forward spontaneous, literature, solicited, and post-marketing adverse event (AE) cases.
• Submit individual case safety reports to local Health Authorities and Ethics Committees (as required).
• Ensure high-quality local market safety data.

Qualifications & Experience

• University degree in Life Sciences or Nursing qualification.
• 2-3 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or a medical environment, ideally with exposure to PV or medical/scientific information services.
• Strong organizational, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to compile and present safety information clearly and concisely.
• Understanding of local, regional, and international PV regulations (e.g., ICH, CIOMS).
• Familiarity with safety databases and internal PV systems.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize effectively, and meet deadlines.
• Problem-solving skills and ability to work independently while complying with internal and external guidelines.
• Fluent English desirable.

Travel requirements

Minimal travel required. Occasional trips may include visits to BMS sites, Health Authorities, or attendance at professional meetings and seminars.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers

With a single vision as inspiring as Transforming patients' lives through science, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role.

• Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility.
• Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. Onsite presence is an essential job function for collaboration, innovation, productivity, and Company culture.
• Field-based and remote-by-design roles require the ability to travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed as an essential job function.

Equal Employment Opportunity

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

Additional information

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. The Company recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with boosters. BMS will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area. If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County, please review California residents information at the dedicated page on the Careers site. Any data processed in connection with role applications will be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and regulations.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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