Location:
Barcelona - Spain (3 days working from the office and 2 days working from home)
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to build patient safety strategy that directly influences how innovative medicines reach people who need them most? Can you see yourself building high-performing teams and guiding sophisticated safety decisions from early development through lifecycle management?
Accountabilities:
- Guide a regional group to ensure effective teamwork between patient safety enablement and functions across the business. Set direction, prioritize resources, and uphold compliance with regulations and laws.
- Serve as guide lead for assigned products and safety processes; shape benefit–risk strategy, signal evaluation and responses to emerging safety issues.
- Strategy Contribution: Give to the regional or functional patient safety strategy and translate strategic priorities into clear objectives, plans and performance measures.




- Provide specialist patient safety expertise and handle interface activities with external organizations within the country; represent the company in regulatory interactions, inspections and relevant industry forums.
- Lead, guide, evaluate and develop the team within your area; performance lead team leaders, identify development opportunities for direct reports and plan optimally for succession.
- Build a culture of adventurous leadership, creativity and collaboration; role‐model clear decision‐making and continuous learning.
- Develop and build cross-functional, multi-skilled teams; drive process improvements, leverage digital tools and data, and ensure audit and inspection readiness.
- Set and handle priorities, resources, performance targets and project initiatives in a integral and regional environment; supervise budgetary andresource management planning.

Essential Skills/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in science / healthcare related field or confirmed Patient Safety experience equivalence in a similar role, and an excellent clinical

📌 Director, Patient Safety (Galicia)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Galicia