Soterius is hiring for the position of Associate / Senior Associate – Pharmacovigilance in Noida. This opportunity is suitable for professionals with experience in pharmacovigilance, drug safety, literature surveillance, clinical safety, or related scientific domains.
The role primarily focuses on global and local literature surveillance, including database searching, publication screening, identification of potential Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs), article procurement, duplicate management, and literature reconciliation.
Candidates with knowledge of PubMed, Embase, Medline, ICSR identification, literature screening, and pharmacovigilance compliance can consider this Soterius pharmacovigilance job opportunity.
Key Responsibilities
Selected candidates for the Soterius Associate/Senior Associate Pharmacovigilance role may be responsible for:
- Conducting global and local literature surveillance for pharmacovigilance activities.
- Performing literature searches using databases such as Embase, Medline, and PubMed.
- Screening scientific and medical literature to identify potential ICSRs and Safety Relevant Publications.
- Performing literature triage and determining the relevance of identified publications.
- Managing duplicate literature records and preventing duplicate processing.
- Procuring full-text scientific and medical articles when required.
- Conducting literature reconciliation activities to ensure completeness and accuracy.
- Maintaining appropriate literature surveillance tracking records.
- Ensuring activities comply with applicable SOPs and pharmacovigilance procedures.
- Maintaining documentation in an audit-ready manner.
- Supporting accurate and timely identification of safety information from published literature.
Qualifications
Candidates with a degree in Pharmacy, Pharm.D, BHMS, BDS, or an equivalent relevant healthcare/life sciences qualification are preferred for this pharmacovigilance position.
Applicants should have approximately 2+ years of related experience in pharmacovigilance, drug safety, clinical safety, scientific operations, or an allied safety-related domain.
Key Skills Required
Candidates with the following skills will be particularly relevant for the position:
- Pharmacovigilance literature surveillance
- Global and local literature monitoring
- PubMed searching
- Embase database searching
- Medline database searching
- Literature search strategy application
- Medical and scientific literature screening
- ICSR identification
- Safety Relevant Publication identification
- Literature triage
- Duplicate handling
- Full-text article procurement
- Literature reconciliation
- Pharmacovigilance database knowledge
- SOP and compliance awareness
- Audit-ready documentation
What Does This Pharmacovigilance Role Involve?
This is primarily a Pharmacovigilance Literature Surveillance role rather than a conventional end-to-end ICSR case-processing position.
Professionals in literature surveillance systematically search scientific and medical publications to identify information that could indicate an adverse event, safety signal, or other safety-relevant information associated with pharmaceutical products.
The identified publications are screened and assessed to determine whether they contain reportable safety information or potential ICSRs that require further pharmacovigilance processing.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
The Soterius pharmacovigilance opening provides professionals with an opportunity to strengthen specialized expertise in literature surveillance and drug safety operations.
The position offers exposure to major biomedical literature databases such as PubMed, Embase, and Medline and provides experience in critical pharmacovigilance processes including ICSR identification, literature reconciliation, duplicate management, and safety publication assessment.
It may be particularly relevant for candidates planning to build a long-term career in pharmacovigilance, drug safety, literature monitoring, aggregate safety, or clinical safety.
Salary
Soterius has not specified compensation in the provided job posting.
Based on comparable Pharmacovigilance Associate and Senior Associate positions in India, an indicative salary range of approximately ₹4.5–8 LPA may be reasonable depending on experience, existing compensation, skills, designation, and company policy.
Note: This is an estimated market range and is not an officially disclosed salary from Soterius.
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