Pharmacovigilance Officer W/M
Paris
Critical Needs. Immediate Action.
SERB is a fast-growing global specialty pharma company designed to address rare and urgent conditions by delivering life-saving medicines when time and complexity leave no room for failure.
We operate end-to-end across 100+ countries, ensuring 70+ essential medicines for rare diseases, emergency care, and medical countermeasures reach patients and clinicians with urgency – wherever and whenever they are needed.
Shaped over the past 25 years by an entrepreneurial, disruptive spirit, SERB combines the focus and agility of a biotech with the scale, reach, and reliability of a global pharmaceutical company — always grounded in medical purpose, not corporate convention.
Our 600+ employees are driven by three core values:
- Patients first, always
Patients are not a concept — they are why we act, especially when time matters most. - Impact focused
We are agile, entrepreneurial, and disciplined - working smart and learning continuously to deliver results that matter, with the consistency, quality, and trust that critical care demands. - Team powered
We go the extra mile - together - because our shared commitment drives extraordinary outcomes.
Guided by a clear ambition and a relentless focus on patients, SERB continues to expand through selective, innovative acquisitions, launching new treatments and entering new geographies. Across every step — from integration to delivery — our people act with passion, ownership, and determination to ensure life-saving medicines become available to patients who need them, worldwide.
The vigilance department encompasses activities such as case management, risk management, PSMFs maintenance, contractual agreements maintenance, signal management, audits & inspections and their follow up actions, aggregate reports drafting, medical device vigilance activities, Literature search, Labelling committee, projects.
As a Pharmacovigilance Officer, your responsibilities will include:
- Participation to all the PV routine case management activities: internal & external reconciliations, exchange of PV cases with partners, acknowledgment of receipt, transfer of PV cases to the PV provider; etc.
- Participation to all the department activities such as (but not limited to): signal management, aggregate reports, RSI/RFI
- Participates in vigilance data migration activities following the acquisition of new pharmaceutical products and/or companies. Drafting of the protocols and migration reports.
- Contributes to quality activities relating to Vigilance processes:
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- Drafting and updating of quality documents
- Implementation and follow-up of CAPAs, Change Control, deviations
- Participation in audits and inspections (back & front rooms, as necessary);
- Participation in the risk analysis of the partners annually to set up the audit schedule for the vigilance department
- Participation to the annual risk analysis for the service providers including the vigilance relevant vendors
- Participation in the elaboration and update of SDEAs/PVAs with partners
- Participation in the maintenance of the PSMF and its appendices;
- Participation to Medical Device activities
- Participation to transversal activities with other SERB departments (in particular regulatory affairs, quality assurance, commercial, sales and marketing, legal, finance, HR, etc.) :
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- Validation of promotional material (when needed)
- Review and validation of product information
- Budget review where applicable
- Validation of the vigilance service providers and partners invoices
To be successful in this role, you should demonstrate:
- EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Scientific graduation
- At least 3 years’ experience in vigilance activities (pharmacovigilance, Materiovigilance, etc.)
- Knowledge of safety database
- PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
- Ability to review, interpret and analyze PV/MV cases
- Proficiency in medical English to read, write and translate scientific and medical data
- Knowledge of GVP modules (EU/UK), 21CFR
- Mastery of IT tools, in particular safety databases - Good management of random workload
- PERSONAL SKILLS
- Rigor
- Autonomy
- Good inter-departmental relationship
- Likes team work
Serb Pharmaceuticals is an equal opportunity employer. We offer competitive compensation & benefit packages, challenging opportunities and a culture of working together in a supportive way built on our strong foundation of values.