Global Safety Medical Director

Career Category

Safety

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Global Safety Officer, Medical Director, Obesity and related conditions

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will serve as the strategic safety leader for assigned the Obesity and related conditions therapeutic area within Amgen's global development organization. You will be accountable for the overall benefit-risk profile, safety strategy, signal management, and safety governance of clinical programs.

This role is ideal for a physician who has served as a Global Safety Officer (GSO), Clinical Safety Lead, Safety Lead Physician, or equivalent accountable safety leader for development-stage assets and has directly influenced key clinical development decisions through safety leadership.

You will establish the strategy, direction, and priorities of pharmacovigilance activities and will be accountable for the overall safety profile and safety-related decisions for assigned products.

You will lead the Safety Analysis Team (SAT), Global Safety Team (GST), and serve as a core member of the Executive Safety Committee (ESC). You will partner closely with Clinical Development, Translational Medicine, Regulatory, Biostatistics, and Medical Affairs to influence development strategy and support innovative therapies for patients with rare diseases and high unmet medical need.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the accountable physician safety leader for assigned Obesity development programs.
• Lead global safety strategy for clinical development programs.
• Partner with Clinical Development and Translational Medicine teams to inform dose-escalation, cohort expansion, proof-of-concept, and development decisions.
• Provide medical safety leadership and contribute to benefit-risk evaluations throughout clinical development.
• Review and interpret emerging safety data and communicate safety implications to development teams and governance committees.
• Lead Safety Analysis Team (SAT), Global Safety Team (GST), and participate in Executive Safety Committee (ESC) discussions.
• Review and contribute to Safety Review Committees (SRCs), Data Monitoring Committees (DMCs), and other safety governance forums.
• Validate safety signals and lead signal detection, assessment, and risk evaluation activities.
• Develop and maintain Core Safety Information including Core Data Sheets and informed consent safety language.
• Prepare and review Risk Management Plans (RMPs), risk minimization strategies, and aggregate safety reports.
• Lead safety review and provide strategic input into protocol development, CRF design, Statistical Analysis Plans, Clinical Study Reports, and safety monitoring plans.
• Prepare and review safety sections of regulatory submissions including INDs, CTAs, BLAs, NDAs, and other global submissions.
• Serve as the safety representative on Evidence Generation Teams and other cross-functional development teams.
• Support regulatory inspections and inspection readiness activities.
• Domestic and international travel up to 10%.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Global Safety Medical Director we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school
  AND
  2 years of clinical research experience and/or basic science research

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience in Drug Safety, Clinical Safety, Pharmacovigilance, or Clinical Development.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a Global Safety Officer (GSO), Clinical Safety Lead, Safety Lead Physician, or equivalent accountable safety role.
• Direct experience influencing clinical development through protocol development, CRF design, safety monitoring plans, dose-escalation decisions, and benefit-risk assessments.
• Expertise in signal detection, signal assessment, benefit-risk evaluation, risk management, and safety governance.

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