Job Description

Job Title: Senior Executive / Specialist - Case Processing

Employment Type: Contract

Location: Brazil (Remote)

About ClinChoice

ClinChoice is a partner to the largest pharmaceutical, medical device, and consumer care innovators in the world. Established in 1995, we provide expertise in clinical operations, biometrics, regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, medical affairs, and toxicology to help our partners advance healthcare by accelerating clinical trials with data-driven insights, delivering the best strategies for product registration, and enhancing patient safety through real-world and clinical analysis.

Our global delivery network has expanded to centers and satellite offices in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Armenia, China, Japan, India, and the Philippines to help our customers maintain regulatory compliance locally and globally.

We have forged future-defining partnerships with industry bodies and technology companies to develop cutting-edge solutions that deliver our expertise with quality and precision.

 Primary Responsibilities:

Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Pharmacy / Life Sciences or above and in alignment with project / business team requirements.
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in identified functional domain/ business workstream.
• Must have hands on experience with MS office applications (Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point etc.).
• Must be able to Write and speak Japanese.
• Dynamic working hours.

Are you interested in working directly for a single sponsor while having the security and additional career opportunities that working for a global CRO can bring? Our team says it’s the best of both worlds….

ClinChoice is searching for an Area/Local Safety Officer Consultant for 12 months Contract with possibility of extension to join one of our clients.

The Area Safety Officer is responsible for ensuring that the local operating company (LOC) Safety activities related to all products are managed in compliance with local regulations and company policies/procedures at a local, regional, and global levels and in accordance with any product vigilance agreements with third party business partners.

ClinChoice is a global full-service CRO with a strong focus on quality, professional development, and supportive culture. As a client-facing role, we are looking for confident candidates with the ability to work independently whilst establishing a high-trust environment with the client’s counterparts.  

Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities:

Safety and PV System Management

• Perform the quality check of the PV cases and ensure that the English translation has been properly performed.
• Keep up to date a local tracker of the individual safety reports.
• Be the subject matter expert at local level on the case management activities.
• Closely follow the respect of the regulatory timelines of the submission of the safety reports to the local health authorities and communicate any potential delay to the appropriate teams.
• Establish and maintain local indicators on the compliance of the safety reports submission.
• Oversee the training of the local employees and the business partners. Maintain KPI and present them during regular team meetings.
• Perform regulatory monitoring for impact on vigilance activities and responsibilities.
• Perform reconciliation with other departments (distributors, third parties, vendors, and internal stakeholders).
• Maintain oversight of proper identification of local literature articles for AE reporting as required.
• Perform reporting/ submissions of safety reports/ updates/information (e.g., SAE, SUE, SUSARs, PSUR, RMP) to local health authorities and other Client departments as applicable.
• Supporting Area Safety Lead in notifying local health authorities of any safety issues including SSI/ESI and Signals.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of local requirements for pharmacovigilance, cosmetic and device vigilances including reporting requirements (for all applicable product classes in the territory) and collaborating with the global team to implement process changes required for identification of new requirements.
• Record self-identified non-conformances and collaborating with the global team to investigate non-conformances while developing and implementing effective CAPAs.
• Perform other agreed tasks assigned by manager
• Perform document management and archiving as required

Procedural Document

• Ensure current knowledge of all relevant company procedures and training.
• Develop, update, and implement local procedures to ensure compliance with Clients global procedures and national requirements.

Audit & Inspection readiness

Support in local health authority inspections and audits conducted locally, including responding to queries during the conduct and collaborating with the global team to develop and implement CAPA (Corrective and Preventative Action) plans as applicable

PV contract management

Provide PV clauses to be included within local agreements and contribute to the PSMF with contracts-related information

Business Continuity

Ensure implementation of local business continuity plans (e.g., inspection readiness, AE reporting coverage)

Education and Experience:

Education: health care science professional or equivalent training

• Significant training in data management with strong IT skills.
• 2-4 years of relevant experience (e.g. case data management, reconciliation manager, vigilance IT project manager…).
• Fluent in English. French as a mother tongue.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams.
• Rigor is a key skill for this mission.

The Application Process

Once you have submitted your CV, you will receive an acknowledgement that we received it. If you have the requirements we need, you will be invited for phone interview as the first step.  Unfortunately, due to the number of applications we receive, we cannot reply to everyone individually if you are not successful.

Who will you be working for?

About ClinChoice    

ClinChoice is a global full-service CRO specializing in clinical development and functional solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and consumer health companies. We have over 28 years of proven high-quality delivery and results across all our services, with over 4,000 professionals in more than 20 countries across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.           

Our Company Ethos

Our mission drives our culture: to contribute to a healthier and safer world by accelerating the development and commercialization of innovative drugs and devices. Our employees are the most valuable company asset and they are  the fulcrum around which all ClinChoice activities are built and close management and training is the core instrument to develop and maintain highly-qualified personnel. The continuous training keeps the resources qualified in terms of competence and expertise and gives all personnel the clear tools needed to manage both internal and client processes with the same methodology.   The success of these core values is evidenced by our below industry average turnover rates.

ClinChoice is an equal opportunity employer. We have based our success on attracting, developing, and promoting talent guided by diversity and inclusivity. Our employees come from very diverse backgrounds: gender, race, beliefs, and ethnicities. We recognize this is our strength and celebrate it.

Key words: Area Safety Officer, Local Safety Officer, PV, QC, CAPA,QPPV

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Job Description

Job Title: Medical Reviewer

Employment Type: Contract

Location: Brazil

Experience – 2 to 5 Years

About ClinChoice

ClinChoice is a partner to the largest pharmaceutical, medical device, and consumer care innovators in the world. Established in 1995, we provide expertise in clinical operations, biometrics, regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, medical affairs, and toxicology to help our partners advance healthcare by accelerating clinical trials with data-driven insights, delivering the best strategies for product registration, and enhancing patient safety through real-world and clinical analysis.

Our global delivery network has expanded to centres and satellite offices in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Armenia, China, Japan, India, and the Philippines to help our customers maintain regulatory compliance locally and globally.

We have forged future-defining partnerships with industry bodies and technology companies to develop cutting-edge solutions that deliver our expertise with quality and precision.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Awareness and understanding of relevant GVP modules.
• Perform medical review of non-serious & serious ICSRs with emphasis on seriousness, expectedness, causality & narrative etc. without missing on quality & compliance.
• Experience of medical review of ICSRs received from sources such as Spontaneous, Literature, Regulatory Authority, Solicited and Clinical trials.
• Experience across multiple therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Respiratory, Immunology, Neuroscience, Rare diseases etc.
• Support triage of cases and determine seriousness and relatedness across products as assigned.
• Review and verify appropriate selection of adverse events from source documents, assign appropriate MedDRA code, assess labelling and review narrative.
• Acquire and maintain current knowledge of product portfolio and safety profiles for products across therapeutic areas.
• Involve in process improvement activities such as implementation of quality control process.
• Provide medical guidance and expert opinion on the cases to the data entry associates and quality reviewers to help resolve queries.
• Identify and resolve case issues, coordinate with client therapeutic teams and within functional team and manage as appropriate.
• Maintain PV expertise, and understanding of international safety regulations and guidelines.
• Responsible for completing the MR activities in the safety database within the stipulated time to comply with service level agreements and regulatory timelines.
• Provide timely feedback to case processors on the errors/ discrepancies noted.
• Assist in training/mentoring of other case processing/medical review personnel as necessitated.
• Adapt to different client case processing conventions and multi-task as per business needs.
• Perform ad-hoc tasks as advised by the team lead/manager with quality and compliance as per project requirement.
• Participate in organizational activities to meet objectives suitable for the role/area of expertise.

Candidate Profile:

• Should be a MBBS/MD with at least 2 years of experience as Medical Reviewer for ICSRs.
• Must possess thorough knowledge of ICH-GCP, relevant GVP module, 21 CFR guidelines and other regulatory requirements.
• Training and mentoring skill (GVP concepts & medical aspects such as disease condition, product portfolio etc)
• Must have hands on experience with MS Office applications (Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point etc)

• Must be able to Write and speak Japanese.
• Dynamic working hours.