Summary
GSK is hiring a Pharmacovigilance Associate for its team in Dubai, UAE. The role involves reviewing safety reports, supporting signal detection and monitoring, preparing safety summaries and regulatory documents, and coordinating with local, regional and external partners. Applicants need a relevant degree or equivalent practical experience, an understanding of pharmacovigilance or patient safety, and strong communication and document management skills. The role is on-site and requires UAE nationality and a Family Book.
The posting
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Position Summary
We are inviting UAE Nationals to join GSK’s Pharmacovigilance team in the United Arab Emirates. You will help monitor and evaluate safety information from healthcare settings, reports, and patient programmes. You will work with safety, medical, regulatory and external partners to support timely decisions that protect patients. We value clear communicators who think carefully about data, collaborate openly and act with integrity. This role offers real responsibility, practical learning, and the chance to grow your safety career while helping us unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
- Review and assess safety reports and case information for accuracy and completeness.
- Support signal detection and routine safety monitoring across local and regional sources.
- Prepare clear safety summaries, trackers and regulatory-ready documents.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams and external vendors to meet timelines.
- Maintain safety records, version control and inspection-ready filing practices.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of processes and tools to increase quality and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Act as a dependable point of contact between the local team, regional safety colleagues and external providers.
- Validate incoming safety information and ensure timely follow-up when more detail is needed.
- Track safety metrics and support preparation of reports for governance forums.
- Support investigations and follow-up activities for safety reports.
- Help develop and maintain local working procedures and documentation.
- Support training and awareness activities to help teams understand safety requirements.
Why You?
Work arrangement: This role is on-site in the United Arab Emirates. The role requires regular presence at the assigned GSK office and collaboration with regional partners.
Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals
- UAE National with Family Book.
- Degree in pharmacy, medicine, nursing, life sciences or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Understanding of pharmacovigilance or patient safety monitoring principles.
- Fluency in English; Arabic language skills are an advantage.
- Strong attention to detail and good document management skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills for clear, concise reporting.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external partners.
We welcome candidates who are motivated to learn, who value inclusion, and who want to make a meaningful difference to patient safety. If this role feels like the next step for you, please apply and tell us how your skills and values match the role. We look forward to hearing from you.
Skills
Digital Fluency, Enterprise Leadership, Influencing Without Authority, Pharmacovigilance, Presentation Techniques
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
Contact information:
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