Director, Medical Safety Officer (Neurovascular)

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Job Function:
Product Safety

Job Sub Function:
Product Safety Risk Management MD

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Galway, Ireland

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson, is recruiting for a Director, Medical Safety Officer (Neurovascular) to be located in Galway, Ireland.

The MSO role is to provide medical safety stewardship for Medical Device (MD) products.

Although a medically independent voice is key, collaboration in assessing potential safety signals is expected.

This individual is an active member of a diverse team, and a close partner with the quality leader and statistical colleagues, in assessing any potential safety signal for an MD product.

They will execute on the Medical Safety Organization’s strategy, by implementing programs and leading in the strategic priority areas as defined by the Chief Medical Officer.

The MSO will build clear and positive relationships between R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Epidemiology and Safety sciences and Safety process and groups to allow for proactive and flexible risk management system.

The MSO is knowledgeable in risk management and serves as a subject matter authority in the therapeutic area and patient risk management throughout the product lifecycle, from new product development, to launch and commercial life.

The MSO plays a pivotal role in evaluating customer/user risk and in assessing the actual or potential impact of product performance issues on patient safety.

The reactive elements of the role (addressing Quality/performance issues) are balanced with the need for a proactive approach in continually assessing all available information/data sources and advising on any mitigating activities which should be taken to minimize potential risk to patients.

Further, the MSO must be a trusted partner in the innovation process, engaging with R&D and quality engineering to drive MD&D’s patient-centered innovation process.

The primary responsibility will be for Cerenovus/ Neurovascular Solutions.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:


* Assess product risk-benefit and offer medical input/review to: Risk Management Reports, Product Issue assessment/ Health Hazards Evaluations, Clinical Evaluation Reports, Product Safety Surveillance Plans (SSPs), including risk categorization of product/product families.

Review and provide input on: mitigations, labeling and internal and customer safety training materials directed to minimi...