Director, Medical Safety (Pharmacovigilance)

Location: Zagreb, Croatia

Company

hirify.global provides clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries.

What you will do

• Conduct medical review of clinical trial and post-marketing safety data, including adverse events, causality, expectedness, seriousness, coding, and benefit-risk evaluations.
• Provide medical oversight for safety documentation, aggregate reports, periodic safety reports, risk management plans, regulatory submissions, labeling, protocols, investigator brochures, and case report forms.
• Support safety governance activities, including Data Safety Monitoring Boards, Safety Monitoring Committees, medical information escalations, pharmacovigilance oversight, and medical support.
• Lead medical safety projects as a Global Safety Physician, project lead, or medical safety advisor, ensuring quality, compliance, delivery, training, and stakeholder communication.
• Lead and develop global teams of physicians and medical safety professionals through resource planning, performance management, mentoring, training, and succession planning.
• Oversee project financial and operational performance and contribute to proposals, budgeting, client presentations, strategic planning, and service-line growth.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of global pharmacovigilance, clinical research, safety reporting, Good Clinical Practice, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• In-depth understanding of clinical development, pharmaceutical research, and medical safety and monitoring activities.
• Medical degree or equivalent from an accredited institution, with substantial clinical practice and/or pharmaceutical physician experience.
• Significant experience in medical safety, pharmacovigilance, or medical monitoring within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CRO, or healthcare industry.
• Current medical licensure or equivalent professional registration in the country of practice.
• Demonstrated leadership, consulting, communication, stakeholder management, project oversight, financial accountability, and strategic decision-making skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across global clinical development and post-marketing safety programs.
• Collaborate with clients, internal teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuous improvement based on industry, regulatory, and pharmacovigilance developments.
• Support organizational objectives through external representation and strategic initiatives.