Job: Products, Pharma R&D Pharmacovigilance - Mgr

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Products, Pharma R&D Pharmacovigilance - Mgr-00109235

Description

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description

Accenture Pharmaceutical Research & Development Consulting professionals help clients become high-performance R&D organizations by applying industry best practices across all aspects of research and development (pre-clinical through launch). This includes all domain areas (discovery, preclinical, clinical, regulatory), processes and technologies used in the discovery and development of pharmaceuticals and medical products. Example projects include designing and implementing technologies used to discover and develop compounds and devices (analytical tools, EDC, CTMS, etc.), post merger organizational and technology rationalization, and R&D operating model design and optimization.

The R&D Pharmacovigilance Manager will manage a R&D safety project (typically a safety systems implementation or integration) and will be responsible for the day to day management of all activities, often including those of clients and vendors. These responsibilities include schedule / timelines, issues and risks, scope and budget. The manager is the accountable Accenture party for delivery of a solution to our clients, and is usually the day-to-day lead on a project for all parties. Additional responsibilities will include developing Accenture consultants and analysts, identifying and developing business opportunities, helping manage client relationships and accounts, and contributing to the development of Accenture's Pharmaceutical R&D consulting practice by taking on a practice development role.

Our work is performed on site with our clients, and depending on candidate location this position may require travel up to 80%, typically weekly, Monday - Thursday.

Qualifications

Basic Requirments

* 6+ years of consulting experience in an IT/systems development environment.
* 3+ years of experience working with drug safety or pharmacovigilance applications (Oracle Argus), safety system interfaces, regulatory reporting, drug and medical term mapping/encoding, and E2B import/export modules.
* 3+ years experience managing a team of multiple direct reports, clients and vendors.
* Bachelors degree.

Preferred Skills

* Understanding of the pharmaceutical R&D value chain from discovery to submission.
* Experience with industry-standards such as ICH E2B, Volume 9A, CFR 21 Part 11, GxP and validated systems lifecycles.
* Experience leading a systems implementation project in the R&D space, and a demonstrated ability to manage vendor selection, scope, budget, schedule and issues and risks in a validated environment.
* The ability to identify and articulate the value of new business opportunities.
* Proven ability to grow and develop people.

Professional Skill Requirements

* A desire to build a career consulting with the world's leading pharmaceutical companies to optimize their R&D organizations, processes and systems.
* Excellent client facing communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
* Proven ability to work creatively and think analytically.

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Accenture is an equal opportunity Employer.

Job
Technology

Primary Location
USA-PA - Philadelphia

Other Locations
USA-CT - Hartford, USA-NY -New York, USA-MA - Boston, USA-NJ - Florham Park, USA-IL - Chicago, USA-VA - Reston, USA-DC - Washington, DC, USA-DE - Wilmington

Organization
Consulting

Schedule
Full-time

Job Level
Supervisory

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