Karo Healthcare, a dynamic and growing company, is all about making smart choices for everyday healthcare. With a wide-ranging portfolio across seven categories including medical products, we own and sell over 100 brands in about 90 countries. Our portfolio includes such brands as E45, Pevaryl, Lamisil, Nutravita, Decubal and many others. Our core belief in empowering people to make intelligent health decisions drives our growth strategy, blending organic expansion and M&A. Since 2019, under EQT ownership, we're rapidly heading towards a €1 billion European leadership position in consumer health.
Join us at Karo Healthcare on our exciting journey. We're currently looking for a Head of Patient Safety for our headquarter in Stockholm.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for development of the Patient safety team with the focus on realizing Karos vision through individual and organizational development with a deep understanding of leadership
- Responsible for the development and planning of the Global Patient Safety Organization in Karo which is a global team consisting of specialist competences within the area of GVP processes and its compliance output (M&A and integrations, Product Risk/benefit surveillance, safety data projects and maintenance including the global safety database, Local & Global Operations, and QPPV/dQPPV oversight of the overall operations)
- Maintaining and building strong business relationships within Karo as well as with the partners
- Act as part of Scientific Affairs Management team and leader for other employees of scientific affairs (regulatory, quality, medical/Clin ops) and develop strategic and operational targets of the team based on the corporate development
- Act as a support in commercial processes to secure compliance and reach the business goals
- Ensuring the functional team has a transparency and understanding of the company and of the activities generating tasks within the Patient safety team and enabling the business processes whilst maintaining compliance
- Managing and executing the Budget
Requirements
- Master's degree in a relevant field, such as Pharmacy, Medicine, or Life Sciences
- Minimum of 15 years' experience within Scientific Affairs including minimum 7 years' of experience within Patient Safety and Pharmacovigilance
- Minimum of 5 years' experience as a leader
- Strong knowledge of applicable regulations and guidelines related to pharmacovigilance and patient safety
- Great communication skills including enabling and moulding difficult technical information to become suitable for each and every employee of Karo
- Commitment to being a business partner enabling Karos expansion over the globe
- Passionate for employee and organizational development
- Fluent in oral and written English
- Strategic mindset and strong communications skills as well as good understanding, and vision of how patient safety shall develop as a collaborative strategic partner to the business
Benefits
- Opportunity to create, grow, and encourage
- Apart from a competitive salary pack, there are lots of growth opportunities to meet your personal ambitions
- Flexible schedule and life work balance
- Responsibility for exciting and challenging projects that have a direct, visible impact on our customers and the industry
- Very positive work environment in a dynamic, international, and motivated team
- Start-up spirit while being a part of the large international organization with strong values
Karo Healthcare has a Diverse & Inclusive environment. We are looking for qualified candidates irrespective of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, disability or age.
