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

You will be relied on by the company to monitor its drug, biologics and medical devices surveillance program. This will include intake, evaluation and processing of the adverse reports received. You will support the clinical trial as well as the post marketing activities.

As an associate, your focus on the job will contribute in achieving project tasks and goals. Through your domain knowledge and commitment, you will create a collaborative teaming environment for your colleagues.

It is your dedication and hard work that will make it possible for Pfizer’s customers and patients to receive the medicines they need, when they need them.

How You Will Achieve It

• Contribute to completion of project milestones and organize own work to meet project task deadlines.
• Provide project teams with expertise on regulatory requirements and corporate policies governing documents for regulatory submission.
• Support Worldwide Strategy and Regulatory teams by providing analyses of post-marketing safety data, reviews of the medical literature, and similar related activities.
• Review case criteria to determine the appropriate workflow for case processing.

POSITION PURPOSE

Pfizer is excited to present an opening for a Safety Data Management Specialist that will be responsible for the review, preparation, and completion of reports of adverse drug experiences, to determine the safety profile of Pfizer’s products and to meet regulatory requirements. The incumbent will also be responsible for the determination of local submission of individual and, where appropriate, aggregate safety reports.

ROLE SUMMARY

• Carry out case processing activities
• Review, rank, verify, process and document case-related information: event terms; validity, seriousness, special scenarios; timelines; accuracy and consistency. Process cases based on these assessments
• Review case criteria to determine appropriate workflow for case processing
• Assess cases to distinguish those with particular complexities and/or specific issues, and escalate appropriately
• Write and edit case narrative
• Determine and perform appropriate case follow-up, including generation of follow-up requests

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Review processed cases to verify accuracy, consistency and compliance with process requirements, and review case data for special scenarios
• Liaise with key partners, locally , and other stakeholders regarding safety data collection and data reconciliation
• Develop and maintain expertise and knowledge for applicable corporate and global regulations, for guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures, for data entry conventions, and for search functions in the safety database
• Determine reportability of scheduled reports , ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements
• Consistently apply regulatory requirements and Pfizer policies
• Participate, as appropriate, in local, internal and external safety activities

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in clinical/medical or Life Sciences
• Demonstrated computer literacy
• Ability, with supervision, to solve routine problems and to surface issues constructively
• Ability to make basic decisions with an understanding of the consequences
• Ability to achieve personal objectives while meeting departmental standards of performance
• Ability to work under supervision in a matrix organization
• Fluency in spoken and written English

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree or Health Care Professional or equivalent experience preferred, (PharmD, Nursing)
• 1+ years' experience in pharmacovigilance and/or data management preferred
• Experience and skill with medical writing an advantage
• Experience in use and management of relational databases preferred

Work Location Assignment: On Premise

Please note: The role will commence in Peapack, NJ, and will relocate to Parsippany, NJ during the fourth quarter of 2024.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $69,700.00 to $116,100.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 7.5% of the base salary. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

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