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Purdue Pharma L.P. and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market medications to meet the evolving needs of healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers. We were founded by physicians, and we are currently led by a physician. Beyond our efforts to provide quality medications, Purdue is committed to supporting national, regional and local collaborations to drive innovations in patient care. Privately held, Purdue is pursuing a pipeline of new medications through internal research & development and strategic industry partnerships.

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Job Summary

Responsible for ensuring the Company's global pharmacovigilance (PV) system remains compliant with legal and regulatory requirements as both a Marketing Authorization Holder and a Clinical Trial Sponsor. Develop and deliver PV specific training, maintain systems to track and oversee compliance, monitor PV system performance, ensure timely and effective CAPA implementation, and support the development and maintenance of compliant procedures within the Quality Management System (QMS).

Primary Responsibilities

• Conduct regular gap analysis of the Company's PV system to ensure ongoing compliance with global regulatory pharmacovigilance requirements.
• Develop and propose new PV procedures, or IT systems and manage updates to existing ones as needed.
• Manage commitments with license partners to ensure mutual compliance with aggregate reporting requirements outlines in PV Agreements.
• Create, update, and implement PV in coordination with the Quality Department, ensuring timely rollout and related training.
• Oversee PV standards and procedures; ensure CAPAs are put in place and executed where needed.
• Develop systems - both procedural and electronic - to support oversight of the PV system, including KPI tracking and performance monitoring.
• Support internal and external PV audits and inspections, including preparations, participation and follow-up activities.
• Participate as an auditor in mock audits as needed.
• Provide input in annual PV Audit Plan and ensure ad-hoc updates are made as required.
• Review audit and inspection reports, identify areas in need of corrective and / or preventive actions, and ensure appropriate root cause analyses and CAPAs are documented and executed.
• Maintain audit trail of CAPA plans with PV relevance and create living overview of their status of executional progression and completion. Escalate overdue CAPAs or CAPAs at risk to the Executive Director and Head of Safety Operations.
• Advise on PV-related role-based training matrices; deliver PV training to organization and external vendors as requested.
• Ensure adequate documentation and proof of PV training for all relevant employees.
• Provide PV input into vendor and partner contractors (e.g. PSP, Market Research, social media screening projects, etc.) and maintain oversight of third-party compliance.
• Ensure that a living overview of such contracts is available to PV. Monitor compliance with third-party contracts, propose corrective or preventive actions as needed to restore or continue compliance.
• Oversee vendor performance and manage case medical review activities according to internal timelines.
• Support the team in monitoring changes and new developments to global regulatory pharmacovigilance requirements.
• Provide support in signaling, assessing and implementing the potential impact of such changes and new developments on the Company's PV system.
• Act as back-up for Vendor operations, assist with quality control of outsourced activities, and develop relevant operational metrics.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience Requirements

Necessary Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Supervisory Responsibilities (if Applicable)

N / A

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