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Medical Safety Expert

0-2 years
Not Disclosed
10 Oct. 13, 2025
Job Description
Job Type: Full Time Education: B.Sc/M.Sc/M.Pharma/B.Pharma/Life Sciences Skills: Causality Assessment, Clinical SAS Programming, Communication Skills, CPC Certified, GCP guidelines, ICD-10 CM Codes, CPT-Codes, HCPCS Codes, ICD-10 CM, CPT, HCPCS Coding, ICH guidelines, ICSR Case Processing, Interpersonal Skill, Labelling Assessment, MedDRA Coding, Medical Billing, Medical Coding, Medical Terminology, Narrative Writing, Research & Development, Technical Skill, Triage of ICSRs, WHO DD Coding

Medical Safety Expert

Job ID: REQ-10063803
Location: Hyderabad, India
Division: Development
Business Unit: Universal Hierarchy Node
Employment Type: Full-time (CDI)
Shift: No


Summary

The Medical Safety Expert is responsible for monitoring drug safety programs, including:

  • Review and follow-up of adverse reaction reports

  • Product risk assessment and relevance

  • Clinical trial and post-marketing safety surveillance

  • Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements

The role contributes to signal detection, risk management evaluation across the product lifecycle, and provides safety support to clinical development teams.


Key Responsibilities

Safety Monitoring & Evaluation

  • Support product safety monitoring, including documentation inspection, medical case evaluation, and signal detection.

  • Conduct literature reviews and support preparation of specific health authority inquiries, particularly short-notice reporting requests.

  • Monitor health authority evaluation reports.

  • Contribute to safe submission of regulatory questions and clinical documents.

  • Maintain and manage local deviations/anomalies.

  • Evaluate and prepare assigned safety outputs.

  • Support new submission guidelines regarding safety documentation.

  • Respond to internal and external safety requests.

Leadership & Mentorship

  • Serve as a medical/medical operations expert (MME).

  • Lead training and onboarding of junior team members or colleagues.

Compliance & Reporting

  • Ensure adherence to internal and external regulations and procedures.

  • Maintain safety quality, consistency, and alignment with regulatory requirements.

  • Support distribution of marketing samples, if applicable.


Key Performance Indicators

  • Timeliness and quality of safety analysis, interpretation, and reporting

  • Compliance with regulations and internal/external procedures

  • Consistency, accuracy, and quality of safety outputs


Required Work Experience

  • Operations management and execution

  • Project management

  • Cross-functional collaboration

  • Functional breadth

  • Crisis management and problem-solving


Skills

  • Clinical research

  • Process safety

  • Regulatory compliance

  • Cross-functional teamwork

  • Safety science

  • Literature review

  • Medical documentation

  • Clinical trial knowledge


Languages

  • English


Why Novartis?

Novartis helps people with disease and their families by combining innovative science with a passionate community of professionals. Collaborating, supporting, and inspiring each other drives breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.


Accessibility & Accommodation

Novartis provides reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities during recruitment or to perform essential job functions. Contact diversityandincl.india@novartis.com with the job requisition number and details of your request.