Pharmacovigilance
In Pharmacovigilance, we live and breathe patient safety. We ensure that any and all appropriate procedures are in place to protect the safety of all patients who take our medicines anywhere in the world. Our goal is to minimize adverse events, and when they occur, to analyze them quickly, communicate them appropriately and introduce measures to minimize the risk to our patients.
As long as the company studies or markets a drug, anywhere in the world, we monitor it. Our focus on continuous improvement includes a recently completed comprehensive transformation of our pharmacovigilance organization, including the structure, processes and operating model. We are now considered the company that sets the industry standards in this area.
More than 70,000 adverse event cases that come into the company each year are reviewed by, and receive a medical recommendation from, a physician. And all this is accomplished within industry-leading cycle times.
The Pharmacovigilance group works across the entire portfolio of Bristol-Myers Squibb products. Our engagement spans the full life-cycle of a product, from the planning of the first-in-human investigational trials through the duration of its global marketing.
Operationally and through the medical governance, we are embedded in both early and full development teams, as well as life-cycle and mature product teams. These responsibilities span compliance activities, medical safety strategies and risk benefit issues.
We look for a variety of technical skills and educational backgrounds, from associate degrees to Ph.D.s and M.D.s. We require nurses and pharmacists to perform first-line safety reviews, physicians to assess product safety, scientists to analyze the data software specialists to automate the data, and epidemiologists to conduct population studies and assess the risk to specific populations. All are equally essential to our company’s success.
We look for leaders who can manage people and projects, who are both science and business minded. We encourage talented and motivated achievers, who can think creatively and have a desire to develop groundbreaking practices, to join us on our journey to enhance and extend human life.