Job Description

Senior Pharmacovigilance Scientist

  • Salary: £29.85 - £48 per hour
  • REF Number: v-151132
  • Consultant: Key Accounts Team
  • Contact: 01438 870011
  • Date Published: 01.09.2025
  • Industry: Pharmaceutical
  • Location: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England
  • Functional Expertise: Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance

CK Group are recruiting for a Senior Pharmacovigilance Scientist to join a company in the pharmaceutical industry on an outside IR25 contract basis until the end of 2026.

Salary: £40 - £48 per hour UMB / LTD or £29.85 - £35.82 per hour PAYE

Senior Pharmacovigilance Scientist Role:

  • Use your pharmacovigilance expertise, particularly individual case safety report (ICSR) knowledge, to ensure safety data is processed and reported in a high quality, compliant manner, so it can be used to understand and communicate the product benefit risk to protect patients’ safety.
  • Performing oversight of service provider who execute ICSR tasks (and Medical Device reports)
  • Identifying root causes of non-compliance to agree Corrective Actions and Preventative Actions (CAPAs), which you may be responsible for implementing
  • Effective oversight of service providers via relationship management, and metrics and analysis.
  • Leadership of complex initiatives with multiple stakeholders, with the ability to investigate and creatively solve problems and simplify, whilst meeting customer needs.

Your Background:

  • Demonstrated experience in a breadth of areas pertaining to pharmacovigilance, and pharmacovigilance legislation; good knowledge of international regulations (ICH, EU GVP Modules, FDA) and an understanding of the pharmaceutical industry (product development and the commercial environment) and of rapidly-evolving personalised healthcare environment and ecosystem
  • Medical Device processing experience, knowledge.
  • Evidence of leading complex, time-pressured projects, working with a wide range of stakeholders.
  • A relevant Life Science degree or equivalent experience in pharmacovigilance.
  • Strong broad knowledge across end-to-end ICSR processes

Company:

Our client is one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing and providing over 160 different medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products to help improve the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year.

Location:

This role is based at our clients site in Welwyn Garden City (Hybrid role, 2 days per week required on site).

Apply:

For more information, or to apply for this Senior Pharmacovigilance Scientist role, please contact the Key Accounts Team on 01438 870011 or email pharmacontracts@ckagroup.co.uk. Please quote reference 151 132.

It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK

Please note:

This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

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