Senior Manager, Pharmacovigilance Agreements

About AbbVie
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This position reports into the Office of the Product Safety Team (PST) within the Pharmacovigilance and Patient Safety (PPS) organization's Global PV Strategy Management Office. The PPS organization works collaboratively and strategically with colleagues across the product lifecycle to identify, evaluate, understand and communicate the safety profile of our drugs to protect patients worldwide.

The Pharmacovigilance (PV) Partnership Alliance Team is a high-profile high-impact team that owns Pharmacovigilance Agreements (PV Agreements) and leads the PV Agreement strategy across the partnership lifecycle. The PV Partnership Alliance team plays a critical role partnering with internal stakeholders and external partners across the partnership lifecycle to ensure appropriate and timely exchange of safety information to maintain regulatory compliance. As the Senior Manager, PV Partnership Alliance, you are in a highly visible role that provides various opportunities to drive the strategy and development of PV Agreements and related business processes and technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Builds, maintains and develops strategic partnerships with key internal (within and outside PPS) and external stakeholders to advance the department priorities in driving partnership and compliance excellence.
• Proactively identifies and escalates potential compliance related issues that may impact the ability to meet regulatory requirements and business goals
• Organize and conduct periodic review of adequacy of existing PV Agreements and initiates revision where appropriate
• Proactively identifies risks or points of disagreement in a partnership and addresses in a time-sensitive manner, engaging senior leadership as needed
• Independently negotiates, executes, and maintains global PV Agreements
• Monitors various internal reports for adherence to PV Agreements of PV functions and external partners, communicates issues, suggest and request corrective actions
• Maintain electronic database to track global and local PV Agreements
• Provides Affiliate support in review and execution of local PV Agreements
• Acts as liaison within departments in PPS to ensure understanding, execution, and implementation of PV Agreements
• Builds enterprise knowledge around PV alliance processes and systems utilized to create and execute PV Agreements; plans and conducts best practice and knowledge sharing forums with internal stakeholders and external advisory groups.

Qualifications

Basic:

• Bachelor's Degree with related health science background, BSN, BS, BS Pharm, PHarmD.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 3 years pharma experience; 1-3 years should be pharmacovigilance experience
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively across the organization must have strong ability to build relationships both internally and externally
• Have excellent negotiation, presentation and communication skills, major strength in influencing

Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
Travel
Yes, 5 % of the Time
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
M
Equal Employment Opportunity
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