Medical Director, Senior Patient Safety Physician

Opportunity: Medical Director, Senior Patient Safety Physician

Based in: Gaithersburg, USA

As a Medical Director, Senior Patient Safety Physician, you are a senior leader within Patient Safety and play a key role bringing deep clinical understanding and judgement in benefit risk assessments for AstraZeneca products. You also have a role in shaping the culture of the department; and will act as a coach and mentor to more junior Patient Safety staff. You will also ensure projects adhere to Good Clinical and Pharmacovigilance Practice and regulatory requirements. We encourage you to closely follow medical developments within assigned areas to incorporate emerging data and trends into the safety strategy

Main Responsibilities:

• Providing strategic Patient Safety input to drug development and post-marketing programs
• Collaboration with team members to undertake safety surveillance activities and prepare high quality evaluation documents to describe safety findings.
• Ensuring expert input to all elements of design and interpretation, including efficient use of tools and methodology (e.g. modelling and simulation).
• Providing leadership to support project discussions with governance boards, including interactions with Patient Safety Peer Review Committee.
• Lead the safety strategy for regulatory communication and provide oversight of higher-level documents to support submission activities.
• Lead medico-scientific contributions to RMPs for assigned products and to Periodic Reports, including PBRERs, DSURs.
• More broadly you are expected to participate in advisory discussions to support other Patient Safety teams in the development of their safety strategy and may be asked to represent Patient Safety in cross-functional discussions with internal and external partners.

Minimum Requirements:

• BS degree in medicine and experience as a physician or academic clinician
• 7+ years of proven experience
• Extensive experience in Pharmacovigilance, with clear evidence of delivering to a high standard
• Experience of internal medicine and family medicine
• Detailed understanding of pharmaceutical safety, reporting and surveillance processes and strong experience of Patient Safety, as it relates to clinical trials and marketed products in any relevant field such as pharma, Regulatory Agency or Public Health agency
• Experience in designing, supervising and implementing clinical trials and interpreting trial results
• Strategic leadership of complex drug projects
• Understanding of the medico-legal aspects of pharmacovigilance
• Proven leader of cross-functional delivery teams.
• Demonstrated ability to influence key business partners within and outside of company
• Proficiency with both written and verbal communications

Preferred

• PhD in scientific field
• 5+ years of proven experience
• Therapeutic area expertise and commercial understanding
• Extensive general medical knowledge
• Able to work across Therapy Areas and Functions
• Research background, including peer reviewed publications

Why AstraZeneca:

Join a team intent on redefining how cancer is treated, where seasoned clinicians and scientists sit side by side with data experts to turn complex evidence into life-changing decisions. You will work in a company with one of the industry’s most dynamic pipelines, moving at pace and the encouragement to take smart, evidence-led risks. Expect unexpected combinations of expertise in the same room, candid debate, and the support to experiment with novel biomarkers, advanced analytics, and innovative trial designs. We value kindness alongside ambition, so you can stretch your impact while growing others—knowing that your contribution directly advances treatments for patients who need them most.

Call to Action:

Bring your medical judgment and leadership to shape benefit–risk decisions that matter—step forward and help us accelerate safer, smarter medicines today!

The annual base pay (or hourly rate of compensation) for this position ranges from $249,827 - $374,740 USD. Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.  In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles), to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles), and commission payment eligibility (sales roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. 

Date Posted

16-Jun-2026

Closing Date

05-Jul-2026

Our mission is to build an inclusive environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees. In furtherance of that mission, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their protected characteristics. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please complete the corresponding section in the application form.