Head of Governance & Compliance, Global Medical Affairs

Proclinical is proud to represent a well-known international radiopharmaceutical company with sites around the globe looking to hire a Head of Governance & Compliance, located in Geneva. The company specialises in developing and commercializing radiopharmaceutical development, offering professionals the opportunity to pursue a career in a fast growing, technologically driven healthcare company.

Job Responsibilities:

• Driving medical governance and setting standards across key Medical Affairs activities. This will be based on internal policies and guidelines, along with applicable external laws, regulations, pharmaceutical industry codes; this will be done in close collaboration with both global and local teams.
• Leading cross-functional teams to continuously improve standards, processes and implement training for appropriate audiences.
• Assuring the roll out of compliance training programs and refreshments, along with tracking the training records of the organisation.
• Monitoring effectiveness of internal controls and adherence to established standards.
• Taking charge of implementing key operation activities on both a local and global level and ensure full alignment with country medical heads.
• Identifying quality and compliance risks across Medical Affairs, establishing a sustainable mechanism to mitigate the risks, and ensure governance across the organisation.
• Leading and driving governance related projects for GMA.
• Leading or participating in cross-functional projects to implement and continuously improve governance and compliance in GMA, and drive optimisation of related standards to gain sustainability in the business.
• Identifying the effectiveness of processes, trainings and standards, such as audit outcome reviews, business/peer reviews and KPIs.
• Establishing and maintaining communication channels to optimize the interface between local and global medical teams, whilst raising awareness on compliance related matters.
• Ensuring readiness for Health Authority inspections and internal audits.
• Ensuring strong remediation plans for any non-compliance findings.
• Collaborating with cross functions to implement plans related to global governance matters.
• Effectively ensuring CAPA plans.
• Identifying and mitigating potential compliance risks in GMA and across local organisations.

Skills and Requirements:

• At least 10 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry, along with an extensive experience of leading medical affairs, clinical development, or governance activities.
• At least an MD in a Science or Business subject.
• Excellent English language skills.
• Demonstrated leadership for matrix teams in large organisations.
• Excellence in communicating effectively across different audiences and organisational levels, including senior management.
• A full awareness of trends and an ability to proactively address needs based on external demands.
• Facilitation skills for bridging between scientific and business teams, and for managing effective international and cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated experience in designing or re-designing business processes to meet quality and compliance standards and to simply the way we work.

To Apply:

Please click on the Apply button. Please include a short note outlining why you are interested in the role and why you think you are suitable.

In case you have difficulty in applying or if you have any questions, please call Tom Russell on +44 203 824 6104 or upload your CV on our website - www.Proclinical.com.

A full job description is available on request.

Proclinical is a specialist employment agency and recruitment business, providing job opportunities within major pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies.

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