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GRADS Alliance Management Specialist

Palo Alto, CA 94304

Posted: 09/09/2024 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Pharmacovigilance Job Number: 614297 Is job remote?: Yes Country: United States

Job Description

Target Pay Rate: 45-56.66/hr **salary will be commensurate with experience 

Brief Description:

This role is responsible for assessing, writing, negotiating, and maintaining pharmacovigilance exhibits for indirect to GRADS vendor partners including but not limited to market research, patient support programs, social media, and specialty pharmacy and/or pharmacovigilance agreements with business development involving but not limited to product acquisitions, collaborations, distribution, comarketing, copromotion, joint ventures, and divestitures. This role will assume medium complexity, deal types and volume.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:
  • Organizes and conducts meetings with internal stakeholders such as commercial for the negotiation, implementation, and maintenance activities for pharmacovigilance exhibits for indirect to GRADS vendor partners with oversight from team leader as needed.
  • Assesses, writes, updates, maintains, and stores pharmacovigilance agreements and pharmacovigilance exhibits according to internal checklists and guidelines as well as company policies and standards with oversight from team leader as needed.
  • Collaborates with GRADS PVAM team leader to ensure training needs are assessed for each executed agreement; liaises with the appropriate GRADS business SMEs to orchestrate the appropriate training is created by the business, as applicable, regarding new processes for each business agreement.
  • Collaborates with GRADS Compliance as well as Quality to participate in audits and inspections as the SME for a PVA or PVE with a partner during any audit or inspection. With assistance from team leader, exercises decision rights in the scope of each agreement as it pertains to the audit or inspection.
  • Collaborate with GRADS Compliance organization to resolve any compliance or quality issues in PV resulting from executed partnerships.
  • Serves as a resource for others in the company in interpreting, developing, and applying pharmacovigilance compliance requirements in the licensing strategy.
  • Works with peers to anticipate roadblocks to agreement execution and to develop a path towards the resolution of complex business problems to ensure GRADS functional areas are contributing in the most efficient but compliant manner.
  • With assistance from leadership as needed, presents complex processes, anticipates potential objections, and persuades others to adopt a different point of view if appropriate.
  • Anticipates internal/external business and regulatory compliance issues and works with SMEs to recommends process improvements/solutions in conjunction with the GRADS Compliance organization.
  • With oversight from the team leader, orchestrates the creation and maintenance assigned business partner rules/algorithms in the safety database with IS and/or PV Operations.
  • Responsible for raising deviations as needed to ensure efficiency and overall quality of activities as it relates to PV Licensing/Alliance Management.
  • Organizes and conducts meetings with business development partners to represent and negotiate pharmacovigilance agreements with oversight from team leader.
  • Organizes and conducts meetings with internal GRADS stakeholders for the implementation and maintenance activities in pharmacovigilance agreements with oversight from team leader.
  • Responsible for orchestrating the transfer of legacy data with IS and/or PV Operations to or from the business partner and ensures it is both appropriate and complete as per terms in the agreement with oversight from team leader.
  • Contribute to determining solutions outside of current responsibilities as needed and manages day-to-day operational issues outside of current responsibilities as needed.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
At least 5 years of biopharmaceutical experience with at least 1 years in pharmacovigilance.
At least 1 years in pharmacovigilance licensing activities or related activities.
Formidable negotiations skills.
Must have proven track record to be able to think critically, strategically, independently and problem solve.
Proficiency in Quality Management System activities such as, but not limited to, deviation, audit, and inspection observation, CAPA and change control management.
Must have high level of motivation, drive, and demonstration of leadership values.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and negotiation skills including ability to write clearly and concisely.
Top notch interpersonal skills in difficult situations.
Driver of change and innovation.
Ability to work seamlessly with all levels of personnel.
Demonstrated sensitivity and knowledge of cultural differences with experience in multi-country, multi-cultural environments and demonstrated success with cross-geographically based cultural collaborations.
Excellent Microsoft office application skills as well as, e-mail and online meeting tool skills.

Required/Preferred Education and Licenses: 
Bachelor of Science Degree in Technical Discipline such as Life Sciences or Health Care Professions (Engineering, Public Health, Biology, Chemistry, Nursing, Pharmacy) or related discipline.


**CO/NY candidates may not be considered 

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Planet Pharma and The Planet Group of Companies are equal opportunity employers. It is our practice not to discriminate against any employee or applicant based on any criteria, condition or basis protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion enable us to better meet our mission and values while serving our clients across the globe. If you have a disability or handicap and would like us to accommodate you in any reasonable way, please inform your recruiter, or contact us, so that we can discuss the appropriate alternatives available.

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Although this hasn't been an issue at Planet Pharma, the staffing industry has seen an increase in people falsely representing themselves as recruiters to gather personal information from job seekers. For your safety, do not provide sensitive data to anyone you have not spoken with thoroughly and never provide banking information during the application process. Candidate safety is a top priority at Planet Pharma.