Veterinary Pharmacovigilance Manager

Virbac • Westlake, TX

4d • Onsite

About The Position

To lead pharmacovigilance operations and support Virbac initiatives regarding regulatory compliance, vendor management, and medical review of materials, while providing leadership for special projects and departmental onboarding. This role oversees pharmacovigilance operations, including onboarding new employees, fostering skill development, ensuring training compliance, promoting collaboration, collecting adverse event information, reporting benefit-risk balance updates to regulatory authorities, maintaining product responsibility, ensuring communication with regulatory authorities, and complying with all local and global legal requirements for pharmacovigilance. The manager also oversees the budget for pharmacovigilance operations. Additionally, the role provides consultations and support for Virbac’s marketed products and R&D or Business Development projects, assessing case events, providing Health Hazard Assessments, and managing vendor relationships to ensure compliance with operating procedures. The manager will also collaborate in the creation and delivery of pharmacovigilance training for various internal and external audiences and lead or support special projects as directed by company leadership.

Requirements

• Veterinarian currently licensed to practice in the United States (current license to practice in Texas a plus).
• At least 5 years in clinical veterinary practice with significant emphasis on internal medicine, parasitology, dermatology, and dental in companion animals.
• Advanced education in animal science related field demonstrated through focus in medicine, pharmacology and/or regulatory area(s), OR in depth experience with pharmacovigilance and customer service in veterinary/animal health industry.
• Demonstrate drive and results orientation.
• Analyze problems and situations.
• Demonstrate the ability to anticipate and plan.
• Communicate effectively.
• Demonstrate teamwork and cross-functional cooperation.
• Demonstrate ability to adapt and develop personal skills.
• Demonstrate customer focus.
• Previous supervisory or management experience and P&L responsibility.

Nice To Haves

• Food Animal experience is a plus.
• Interest and experience with exotic pets and/or industry experience are helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead onboarding of new Pharmacovigilance employees.
• Cultivate the development of individual skills, people development, and teamwork within the department and across departments.
• Ensure PV team members participate in, successfully complete, and apply directions and principles from all training for each applicable SOP and/or Work Instruction for their job function.
• Ensure high levels of collaboration within Virbac Corp.
• Ensure that information about all adverse events which are reported to any personnel of VIRBAC, is collected and securely collated in order to be accessible.
• Ensure that new information relevant to the benefit-risk balance of a product is reported to the Regulatory Authorities in a timely manner.
• Enable VIRBAC to maintain responsibility for its products on the markets and to ensure that appropriate action may be taken, when necessary.
• Ensure Virbac Corp. maintains communications that establish and maintain trust with regulatory authorities.
• Comply with all local and global legal requirements for pharmacovigilance.
• Oversee the budget (P&L) associated with Pharmacovigilance operations. Communicate budget needs with management as requested.
• Consult with members of the Pharmacovigilance Reporting (PR), R&D, Business Development, and Quality Assurance teams regarding medical and/or non-medical aspects of PV cases.
• Provide Assessment of case events as requested or required by Departmental and/or Company SOPs and/or Work Instructions and/or in response to special requests from either within or outside the Department.
• Provide Health Hazard Assessments for a potential 3-Day Field Alert, Recall or Withdrawal.
• Perform or delegate tasks to PV team as required, related R&D or business development projects (ex: review of adverse events for product labeling, contract negotiations).
• Maintain agreements with all vendors providing services to the department.
• Ensure compliance of vendors with required operating procedures that affect compliance of Virbac Corp. pharmacovigilance relative to regulatory authorities.
• Interact with manufacturers and re-distributors of Virbac Corp. products as needed, including through formal agreements and ad hoc communications, to ensure maintenance of required pharmacovigilance compliance with regulatory authorities.
• Champion creation, maintenance, and/or delivery of PV training applicable to various audiences within Virbac ranging from Office Veterinary Team personnel to Sales team members.
• Collaborate to modify or adapt training for audiences outside Virbac (distributor representatives, veterinary customers, consumers).
• Collaborate closely with leaders and managers in Virbac Sales, Marketing, Technical Services, Regulatory and others as needed to ensure alignment of PV training with required goals and objectives of Commercial Operations.
• As directed and agreed with Company Leadership, take on leadership or support roles for special projects.

Benefits

• Encouraging internal mobility between positions and countries
• Offering individual development plans
• Building a partnership based on trust between managers and employees
• Work environment conducive to exploring new territories and balancing their professional and personal lives
• Listening to them and helping them to acquire new skills
• Preparing them for the challenges of tomorrow
• Encouraging them to contribute to an ever more responsible approach to our business
• Numerous career opportunities, thanks to the diversity of its jobs and their international dimension.
• Joining dynamic teams ambitious for success.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree