Director, Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance - Japan

At Insmed, every moment and every patient counts — and so does every person who joins in. As a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with serious and rare diseases, you’ll be part of a community that prioritizes the human experience, celebrates curiosity, and values every person’s contributions to meaningful progress. That commitment has earned us recognition as Science magazine’s No. 1 Top Employer for five consecutive years, certification as a Great Place to Work® in the U.S., and a place on The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list in the UK.

For patients, for each other, and for the future of science, we’re in. Are you?

Working with the Head of DSPV-Japan, this role is responsible for ensuring optimal patient safety as first priority by developing a state-of-the-art safety strategy, driving medical safety processes and capabilities and having accountability for safety compliance in Japan.

• Develop and maintain a local safety assurance system to support safe use of commercial product

• Conduct or supervision of safety assurance activities, including but not limited to, collection of drug safety reports, examination of safety information received, timely reporting to competent authorities and planning, reporting and implementation of safety assurance measures

• Conduct self-inspection and support internal process audits and external vendor audits as necessary

• Contribution to and control of documents related to safety management activities, including, but not limited to, the J-RMP and the J-PSUR

• Development of local SOPs related to safety assurance activities, review or approval of functional area procedures as needed and implementation of associated training requirements

• Providing Head of DSPV-Japan with information on changes in the local GVP regulations Communication with necessary parties in the case of communication from the local competent authorities regarding safety matters for the product

• Reporting of any product safety related issues to Head of DSPV-Japan, and the General Marketing Compliance Officer in Japan

• Play a key role in cross-functional project for investigational product from development phase including J-NDA through launch, collaborating with colleagues from other functions, e.g. Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Information, and QA, as well as externally with expert panels and other scientific contacts

• Enhance scientific and clinical experience of staff through continuous training and coaching. Participates in building the talent pipeline for key roles in Medical Safety. Responsible for attracting, retaining and developing talent within the PV organization.

• Collaborate with/support medical safety for medical review and safety assessment activities, including, but not limited to, compiling analysis of similar events (AOSE), individual case comments, RMP analyses, and ad-hoc safety analyses as required by health authorities or corporate policy, and ensure that medical safety signals from aggregate data are identified promptly and communicated/escalated within the PV organization and other functions appropriately

• Lead enhancement/improvement of operational process to optimize the efficiency in the organization as necessary

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s degree in health care or life science is required, Master’s degree is preferrable

• Fluent in written and verbal English

Experience & Knowledge

Essential:

• Minimum eight (8) years in Drug safety/Pharmacovigilance in pharmaceutical industries setting with both investigational and marketed products

• Working knowledge of relevant PMDA, ICH guidelines, initiatives and regulations governing both Safety reporting and processing for clinical trial environments (including ICH/CIOMS, Clinical development methodology and knowledge of Clinical Trial guidelines (GCP) and regulation)

• Knowledge of Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSR) management processes including case receipt, case processing, medical review, and regulatory submission

• At least two (2) years of experience with, aggregate safety reporting, safety surveillance, signal management and/or Risk management

• Active participation in internal audits, regulatory inspections

• People management and resource/budget planning experience

Preferrable:

• Minimum two (2) years as a safety officer

• Knowledge of pharmacoepidemiology

• Ability to review and/or prepare scientific or regulatory documents, from large volumes of scientific information

• Experience in preparing or contributing to preparation of clinical safety assessments and regulatory reports/ submissions involving safety information

• Experience in presenting clinical or safety data to major health authorities

• Experience with setting up and leading an Early Post-marketing Vigilance Study

• Working knowledge of industry standard pharmacovigilance databases (preferably Argus) and MedDRA

• Device experience

• Project management experience

Skills & Capabilities

• Ability to lead others without authority to move internal and external teams towards achieving goals that support Insmed’s key strategic objectives

• Demonstrated experience improving, developing and implementing new processes

• Flexible, diplomatic and able to effectively deal with ambiguity

• Works effectively across functions as a team player

• Successful experience in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail, clarity, accuracy, and conciseness

• Must have excellent communication and presentation skills (verbal and written / Japanese and English) with the ability to effectively present ideas and influence others that achieve desired results

• An uncompromising ethical standard and level of conduct are essential

Travel

• Travel up to 20% (domestic and international), some of which will be overnight in nature

Life at Insmed

インスメッド日本オフィスは、国会議事堂を望む東京の中心部、溜池山王駅直結の好立地に位置しています。最新のワークスタイルに対応したフリーアドレス制を導入し、開放的で柔軟な働き方を実現しています。カフェエリアでは部門を超えた自由なコミュニケーションやコラボレーションを促進する空間を創り出しています。
日本法人の拠点として、患者さんにより良い医療をお届けするため、社員一同が一丸となって日々邁進しています。
社員一人一人の充実した働き方を実現するためのサポート：
• ワークライフバランスの実現
フレキシブルな勤務時間や充実した休暇制度
• 魅力的な報酬制度
退職金制度、株式報酬制度、従業員持株制度（ESPP）への参加機会
• キャリア開発支援
社内研修、外部研修プログラムの活用、LinkedIn Learning、業務に特化した専門研修
• 先進的な学習支援
AI搭載の学習ツール、社内リソースへのアクセスを支援するデジタルアシスタント
• グローバルの表彰制度や従業員リソースグループ活動
• ハイブリッドワーク環境の整備
場所や時差を超えたシームレスな協働を実現する最新テクノロジー、充実したIT支援体制

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