Pharmacovigilance Industrial Placement
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Location: Reading
Start date: 15th July 2027
Duration: 13 months
Work Model: Hybrid
About the job
As a Pharmacovigilance Industrial Placement Student, you will join the UK & Ireland Pharmacovigilance team and support activities that help ensure patient safety. You will gain hands-on experience in managing safety information, maintaining documentation and supporting processes that help the team meet regulatory requirements.
Working alongside experienced colleagues, you will learn how pharmacovigilance operates within a global pharmaceutical organisation while contributing to the accurate and efficient day-to-day running of the team.
Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative teams.
Main responsibilities:
Support the day-to-day processing of patient safety information, ensuring records are accurate and completed within required timelines.
Help monitor the Pharmacovigilance inbox and support activities such as case follow-up, reconciliation and quality checks.
Maintain accurate and well-organised electronic and paper documentation, helping ensure records remain ready for audits and inspections.
Support regular team activities, including monthly reconciliations, training records, trackers and electronic folders.
Provide administrative support such as preparing meeting minutes, presentations and correspondence, organising documents and coordinating meetings.
Support clear and timely communication with colleagues across different teams, with guidance from experienced Pharmacovigilance team members.
Contribute to team activities and projects while developing your understanding of patient safety, pharmacovigilance and the pharmaceutical industry.
About you
To excel in this role you will need to have:
You should be studying for a scientific, medical or related discipline degree, either as an undergraduate (BSc) or as part of an integrated Master’s programme, and be returning to university to continue your studies after completing the placement.
Strong attention to detail and a careful approach to working with information and documentation.
Good written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to organise your workload, manage priorities and meet deadlines.
Confidence using Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
A collaborative approach and willingness to work with colleagues across different teams.
Curiosity and willingness to learn, ask questions and respond positively to feedback.
About Sanofi
We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
Why choose us?
Stretch your skills through apprenticeships, internships, graduate programs, and international experiences that grow with you.
Learn from inspiring mentors and collaborative teams while contributing to real projects that shape the future of healthcare.
Build your future with access to the latest tools, digital innovation, and continuous learning that keep you ahead of the curve.
Grow in a purpose-driven company where your voice matters and your work helps improve millions of lives.
Thrive in inclusive, flexible workplaces that support your personal and professional well-being.
Launch your career with a company that invests in you, and empowers you to reimagine what’s possible.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should we receive a sufficient number of applications.
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How this role compares
Computed from every other active Pharmacovigilance role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 175 comparable Pharmacovigilance roles across 52 biopharma companies.
Salary context
41 of 175 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.
Where these roles are based
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Seniority mix
117 of 175 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
23 of 175 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
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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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