Senior Drug Safety Physician (m/f/d)
About this opportunity
VIATRIS INNOVATION GMBH
Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.
We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.
Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.
For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.
The Role & What You Will Be Doing
At Viatris Innovation GmbH, we are engaged in the development of innovative drug products to treat unmet medical needs. This is an exciting role where you will act as both Subject Matter Expert and strategic Safety Lead, working across different therapeutic areas and clinical phases.
If you thrive on scientific integrity and objectivity, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration, this could be your next step.
Lead medical safety oversight for assigned clinical development programs
Drive signal detection, evaluation, and risk management strategies
Act as chair and medical lead for the Safety Management Team (SMT)
Present safety insights and recommendations to the Drug Safety Committee
Contribute to key regulatory deliverables such as DSURs, RMPs, ISS, and Investigator Brochures
Collaborate closely with clinical, regulatory, and data management teams
Represent Viatris in interactions with Health Authorities and external committees
Provide expert individual case medical review of SAEs and ensure accurate safety reporting
About Your Skills & Experience
For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:
Medical degree (MD or equivalent)
7+ years of experience in pharmacovigilance, clinical safety, or clinical development
Strong expertise in drug safety regulations, GCP, and global PV requirements
Proven ability to interpret complex clinical safety data and drive decisions
Experience with regulatory safety documents (e.g., DSUR, RMP, CCDS)
Excellent communication and presentation skills in English (advanced level required)
What we offer
Purpose with impact – Your work directly contributes to patient safety worldwide
Friendly working atmosphere - A great team and a highly collaborative setup
Flexibility – Hybrid setup with the opportunity to work 2 days a week remote
Innovation mindset – Be part of a company that challenges the status quo
Development opportunities within an international company
At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
Why Viatris?
At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. You will also have the opportunity to access excellent career progression opportunities and work-life balance initiatives.
Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris
At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion
Sustainability at Viatris
Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility
A t Viatris, we offer competitive salar ies , benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.
Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Clinical Development role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 186 comparable Senior Clinical Development roles across 33 biopharma companies.
Salary context
41 of 186 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
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Seniority mix
186 of 186 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
21 of 186 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
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How we calculate "similar"
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Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
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