Salary Range: €69,100.00 - €128,300.00
Job Description Summary
What if your expertise could help strengthen the systems that protect millions of patients around the world?
Job Description
Location: Barcelona, Spain
LI-Hybrid
Relocation Support: This role is based in Barcelona, Spain. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support, please only apply if accessible.
Major Accountabilities
- Lead quality oversight of global Pharmacovigilance and Device Vigilance activities to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Drive quality improvement initiatives that strengthen compliance, efficiency, and operational excellence.
- Identify compliance risks and provide mitigation recommendations to Patient Safety stakeholders.
- Support due diligence activities for product acquisitions and business development opportunities.
- Lead quality activities supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestments, and system integrations.
- Support maintenance of the Pharmacovigilance System Master File and related quality systems.
- Guide complex investigations, corrective actions,



and preventive action plans to resolution.
- Support health authority inspections, inspection readiness activities, and remediation efforts.
- Provide quality governance and oversight for global pharmacovigilance operational vendors.
- Deputize for the Team Head, providing leadership support and ensuring continuity of critical quality activities.

Essential Requirements
- Degree in Life Sciences or a related scientific discipline.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Fluency in at least one additional language.
- Significant experience in pharmacovigilance quality, pharmacovigilance operations, or pharmaceutical compliance.
- Strong knowledge of integral pharmacovigilance regulations, guidelines, and quality requirements.
- Proven ability to manage complex compliance issues and drive effective resolutions.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with success in cross‐functional and global environments.
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📌 Associate Director, Pharmacovigilance Qa (Cataluña)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Cataluña