Pharmacy Job at IQVIA | Apply Now for the Medical Surveillance Specialist
IQVIA is hiring a Medical Surveillance Specialist 1 for its operations in Bengaluru, India. This Pharmacy Job is designed for professionals with a Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, or Allied Health and at least 2.5 years of dedicated medical surveillance experience. The successful candidate will monitor clinical laboratory results for study subjects, compose medical narratives, and identify significant safety trends to support global drug development.
- Job Title: Medical Surveillance Specialist 1
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Job ID: R1478911
About The Company
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence for the life sciences and healthcare industries. The company creates “intelligent connections” to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments, aiming to improve patient outcomes and population health globally.
IQVIA Job Overview
Provide a wide range of medical surveillance support (including monitoring of clinical laboratory data for subjects in clinical studies and composing medical narratives and interfacing with investigator sites.)
Essential Functions
- Monitor, and evaluate laboratory results on a daily basis from sponsor-designated central laboratory
- Evaluating and analyzing laboratory data at agreed frequency from sponsor-designated data management system/eDC platform
- Conduct preliminary review of laboratory results relative to established protocol-specific reference range guidelines, using relevant clinical laboratory experience and compares current results with prior laboratory values to evaluate or note clinically significant increases/decreases and contacts the investigator site for pertinent additional clinical contact for distribution to project team
- Serve as liaison between the Medical Services Department and sponsor-designated laboratory and the IQVIA Project Team
- Maintain up-to-date laboratory knowledge via continuing education activities or attendance at medical seminars
- Based on clinical laboratory and monitoring experience, identify potentially significant trends or shifts in laboratory results and alerts IQVIA Medical Advisors
- Interact with project team to convey critical information that may impact study objectives
- Work with central laboratory staff to facilitate appropriate monitoring and reporting of subject laboratory results
- Assists Lead Medical Surveillance Specialist with project set-up activities
- Attends project team meetings, as needed
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in pharmacy
- Healthcare i.e., medical (allopathy, homeopathy, ayurveda), or dentistry
- 2 to 6 years relevant experience with a minimum of 2.5 years of medical surveillance experience (req)
- Equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Strong technical ability to comprehend and integrate scientific data from a variety of sources
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Demonstrated computer skills, especially word processing and data management
- Strong analytical and organizational skills and attention to detail required
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers, and clients
