Pharmacovigilance
Pharmacovigilance is the staple of drug safety in the life sciences. It’s one of the more straightforward career paths in the industry, and it’s a highly rewarding one at that. This doesn’t mean that a pharmacovigilance job isn’t flexible, dynamic, or laden with opportunities to be upwardly mobile – it’s all of these elements and so much more.
Whether you want to get into the more technical side of affairs, or you’d rather embark on the path of line management, there’s plenty to do and experience in this exciting and highly impactful area of work. Pharmacovigilance aids both Clinical Development and Medical Affairs determining meaningful data, drug safety and efficacy. monitor side effects - drug safety and ensure its ready and safe for market and compliant with regulatory bodies such as- FDA (food and drug association), MHRA (medicines and healthcare products regulatory agency), and Health Canada.
Typically, pharmacovigilance jobs consist of:
•Monitoring and reporting the effects of drugs
•Risk assessment and analysis
•Detecting potential health risks
•Communicating ideas and acting as a bridge between the various other departments inside the company
•Writing medical reports
•Overseeing trials
•Monitoring the safety of drugs in the post-market environment
•Performing Case Control Studies
Hiring for this highly specialised technical role can be difficult in a talent-short market, but there’s no need to fear, BioTalent are here to help.
Our Medical team specialise in the broad range of activities that are crucial to bring a drug to market whilst maintaining its safety and achieving success. The team is complemented with first hand experience working in hospital medicine and thus have an appreciation of what it’s like on both the patient side and the side of the pharmaceutical industry.
We provide both interim and permanent employment solutions in the below areas: Medical affairs, medical information, Medical Compliance and Drug Safety/Pharmacovigilance (pre and post marketing). We work with the global leading well-established Pharma/Biopharma/Biotech companies as well as startups and CROs. Our capabilities stretch across the UK, Europe and the US.
We take a people-first view of recruitment, and this is why we will always place our candidates in environments that support and nurture their skillsets, enabling us to secure engaged, retainable and reliable experts for your business, no matter how complex your needs. We underpin our entire approach with a diversity-led methodology, which effectively grants you access to a much wider talent pool. Plus, our international talent network is vast, dependable and exclusive. We know that hiring in the life sciences can be the difference between success and failure, and in an industry that can never afford to fail, where excellence always comes first, we understand that the need for finding the right fit the first time is essential.
Our right-first-time approach has helped hundreds of life sciences business sharpen their competitive edge while saving money and time – our happy clients are a testament to our unwavering desire to make a positive impact on the wider community.
If you feel as though you might need the services of a third-party life sciences recruitment agency, don’t hesitate to reach out to the team at BioTalent today.
Life Sciences in Boston
Boston, Massachusettes boasts more than 1000 life sciences companies, ranging from globally facing industry giants to ingenious startups, all of which contribute towards the thriving landscape as we know it today. Sometimes known as ‘The Hub of the Universe,’ or ‘the Hub,’ for short, the state capital of Massachusetts has proven time and time again to be the ideal business environment for science-related fields - it's rife with high-performing biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical companies, and countless other science-focussed enterprises, all representing boundless opportunity.
Boston and the surrounding areas are home to some of the best educational institutes in the world, including MIT and Harvard. Science and business are inexorable from Boston’s infrastructure, making it a prime spot for life sciences professionals to find meaningful opportunity in a competitive industry. The city is responsible for an incredibly high number of life sciences PhD graduates, (the most in the United States) another deciding factor that ultimately helps cement Boston’s status as a leading location in an equally leading-edge industry.
If you’re hoping to recruit the top life sciences talent in the Boston area, BioTalent are here to help. Our team have a wealth of experience in recruiting for the life sciences, and our incredibly diverse talent network allow us to pinpoint the perfect candidate for the position in question. Hiring in the life science industry can be incredibly costly, both in terms of time and money, which is why making the right decision the first time is crucial to mission success.
Life science jobs in Boston are highly sought after, and in a talent short market, the landscape is more competitive than ever. We pride ourselves on being a Boston Staffing agency with a real difference – we take a global, future-facing approach to life sciences recruitment, and we rely on our knowledge-based, DEIB-led (diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging) methodology to help us do this. Whether you’re recruiting for a short-term project, or you need an executive-level professional to take up a permanent position in your organisation, we can offer you an end-to-end, bespoke recruitment solution that suits your unique needs.
On the other hand, if you’re looking for your big break in the life sciences, a fulfilling life sciences job in bewitching Boston could be the next best step in your career journey. From the biggest life sciences companies in Boston to the visionary startups jumping brain first into the future, we can match you with whichever opportunity best fits your individual goals and objectives.
In what is undoubtably a highly competitive field, medtech, pharmaceutical, engineering, healthcare, and biotech recruiters in Boston have their work cut out for them. Thankfully, we at BioTalent have a highly expansive talent network, enabling us to quickly source the ideal person for the opportunity, and if you’re passion about the life sciences, that ideal person could be you.
If you have any questions about our services, don’t hesitate to get in touch with the team today – we can’t wait to support you on your journey in the vast world of the life sciences.
Plus, alongside its abundance of fulfilling opportunity, Boston is quite simply a wonderful place to live.