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Safety Reporting Specialist

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
  • Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0 to 2 years’)
  • Basic knowledge of medical terminology
  • Good written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Receive, prepare, and submit safety reports to applicable parties, ensuring compliance with regulatory timelines and country legislation
  • Track all expedited/periodic safety report submissions, ensuring retention of evidence of submission
  • Develop project management skills by acting as support to an assigned lead, and may also lead small projects
  • Liaise with relevant teams around safety reporting tasks and assist the assigned lead as required

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Detail Oriented
  • Microsoft Office
  • Communication
  • Time Management
  • Teamwork

About the company

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

  • Biotech & Genomics
  • 10,001+
About Thermo Fisher Scientific Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

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Job description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Join Us as a Associate Safety Reporting Specialist – Make an Impact at the Forefront of Innovation

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

The Associate Safety Reporting Specialist assists in the receipt, submission, and subsequent tracking of expedited and periodic safety reports pertaining to the department’s projects. Supports management in producing project metrics as required. Participates in projects and programs relating to safety reporting.

We have successfully supported the top 50 pharmaceutical companies and more than 750 biotechs, spanning 2,700 clinical trials across 100+ countries in the last 5 years.

What You'll Do:
• Receive, prepare, and submit safety reports to applicable parties, ensuring compliance with regulatory timelines and country legislation.
• Track all expedited/periodic safety report submissions, ensuring retention of evidence of submission. Alert your lead and/or line manager to any quality or timeline issues.
• Develop project management skills by acting as support to an assigned lead, and may also lead small projects.
• Liaise with relevant teams around safety reporting tasks and assist the assigned lead as required.
• Run reports and ensure that repositories/systems are maintained with up-to-date contact information. Provide ad hoc administrative support as and when required.
• Ensure regulatory submission files and filing processes are prepared, set up, maintained, and archived as per the organization's WPDs or applicable client SOPs.
• Assist the manager in the collation of metrics.

Education and Experience Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0 to 2 years’).

In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training
and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the
requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
• Basic knowledge of medical terminology
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs and a basic understanding of safety database functionality
• Basic knowledge of procedural documents and working knowledge of global safety reporting requirements (including FDA regulations and guidelines)
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy with orientation toward careful and meticulous work
• Possess the maturity to handle sensitive information and data effectively
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization
• Ability to work effectively within a team

Working Environment:
Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• Work is performed in an office/ laboratory and/or a clinical environment.
• Exposure to biological fluids with potential exposure to infectious organisms.
• Exposure to electrical office equipment.
• Personal protective equipment required such as protective eyewear, garments and gloves

Why join us?
When you join Thermo Fisher Scientific, you become part of a global team that values passion, innovation, and a commitment to scientific excellence. You’ll work in an environment where collaboration and development are part of the everyday experience—and where your contributions truly make a difference.

Apply today to help us deliver tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

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