Director- Patient Safety

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Job Title: Director Patient Safety GCL: F Introduction to role: Are you ready to build patient safety strategy that directly influences how innovative medicines reach people who need them most? Can you see yourself building high-performing teams and guiding sophisticated safety decisions from early development through lifecycle management? As Director Patient Safety, you will provide technical leadership as a guide for assigned products or processes, or lead a regional group that connects patient safety enablement with teams across development and beyond. You will work within multi-skilled, cross-functional teams to elevate benefit–risk thinking, strengthen external interfaces, and drive continuous improvement so that quality and pace go hand in hand. Accountabilities: • Guide a regional group to ensure effective teamwork between patient safety enablement and functions across the business. Set direction, prioritize resources, and uphold compliance with regulations and laws. • Serve as guide lead for assigned products and safety processes; shape benefit–risk strategy, signal evaluation and responses to emerging safety issues. • Strategy Contribution: Give to the regional or functional patient safety strategy and translate strategic priorities into clear objectives, plans and performance measures. • Provide specialist patient safety expertise and handle interface activities with external organizations within the country; represent the company in regulatory interactions, inspections and relevant industry forums. • Lead, guide, evaluate and develop the team within your area; performance lead team leaders, identify development opportunities for direct reports and plan optimally for succession. • Build a culture of adventurous leadership, creativity and collaboration; role-model clear decision-making and continuous learning. • Develop and build cross-functional, multi-skilled teams; drive process improvements, leverage digital tools and data, and ensure audit and inspection readiness. • Set and handle priorities, resources, performance targets and project initiatives in a global and regional environment; supervise budgetary and resource management planning. Essential Skills/Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in science / healthcare related field or confirmed Patient Safety experience equivalence in a similar role, and an excellent clinical background. Advanced degree is helpful • Significant experience in a hospital, pharmaceutical, clinical research position, or other healthcare related field • Validated leadership promoting motivation and empowerment of others in order to accomplish individual, team and interpersonal objectives • Ability to lead cross functional working groups and teams; Proven record to set and handle priorities, resources, performance targets and project initiatives in a global and regional environment • Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as confirmed negotiation, teamwork and interpersonal leadership skills Desirable Skills/Experience: • Effectively plans, coordinates and facilitates delivery of team objectives • Demonstrates operational expertise in risk management and prioritisation • Act as role model in line with AZ core values and behaviours • Has an appropriate understanding of disease state and familiarity with the latest research and leaders with vision • Ability to understand the impact of technology on projects and to use and develop digital literacy while making appropriate use of AZ and SD systems/software in an e-enabled environment • Demonstrates strategic influencing, concern for standards, and thoughtful persuasion to acquire desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, interpersonal relationships When we put unexpected teams in the same room, w

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