Director, Business and Process Optimization – Pharmacovigilance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Czechia.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic direction for departmental operations and resource management.

• Create and implement strategies aimed at continuous process enhancement and optimizing organizational performance.

• Collaborate with senior leadership to formulate and approve strategic business plans.

• Supervise cross-functional activities, projects, and initiatives.

• Offer strategic insights, analyses, and recommendations.

• Act as the business lead for large, intricate, cross-functional process improvement projects.

• Work together with stakeholders, peers, and leaders on strategy, execution, and communication planning.

• Manage the development, optimization, enhancement, and compliance evaluation of cross-functional processes and their related systems, training, and communication.

• Provide administrative oversight for staffing, budgeting, scheduling, and long-term planning.

• Lead and manage the department's personnel.

• Oversee recruitment, onboarding, talent development, and staff retention efforts.

• Offer coaching, feedback, performance evaluations, development plans, and career guidance.

• Create and execute business plans and forecasts.

• Support and lead activities aimed at process and systems optimization.

• Manage oversight and responses for client or internal process audits and CAPAs.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Serve as an internal transformation consultant for M&A integration efforts.

⛳️ Requirements

• Graduate in life sciences, pharmacy, nursing, or another healthcare-related field, or possess experience in pharmacovigilance.

• Significant experience in pharmacovigilance.

• Familiarity with process improvement, safety applications, and systems.

• Proven experience in line management.

• Extensive leadership experience in pharmacovigilance within a service provider setting.

• Experience in process optimization and management through implementation.

• Exceptional leadership and management abilities.

• Advanced skills in process development and enhancement, particularly in clinical and post-marketing pharmacovigilance.

• Excellent project management capabilities.

• High level of attention to detail alongside strong investigative and analytical skills.

• Exceptional interpersonal, negotiation, and problem-solving abilities.

• Strong computer skills, including knowledge of clinical management and pharmacovigilance technologies and systems.

• In-depth understanding of clinical trial practices, processes, requirements, regulatory guidelines, and directives.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Proficiency in English, both spoken and written.

• Ability to lead and encourage teamwork in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.

• Capability to drive innovation in process improvement.

• Exceptional organizational, judgment, analytical, decision-making, and interpersonal skills.

• Certification in process improvement methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma is an advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Option for remote work.

• A collaborative and supportive work environment.

• Flexibility in work arrangements.

• Opportunities for growth and advancement.

• A culture centered on belonging.

• Chance to collaborate with global teams.

• Exposure to clinical research, pharmacovigilance, and quality consulting.

• Support for talent development and career coaching.