Job Title: Director Patient Safety
GCL: F

Introduction to role:
Are you ready to build patient safety strategy that directly influences how cutting-edge medicines reach people who need them most? Can you see yourself building high-performing teams and guiding sophisticated safety decisions from early development through lifecycle management?
As Director Patient Safety, you will provide technical leadership as a guide for assigned products or processes, or lead a regional group that connects patient safety enablement with teams across development and beyond. You will work within multi-skilled, cross-functional teams to elevate benefit–risk thinking, strengthen external interfaces, and drive continuous improvement so that quality and pace go hand in hand.

Accountabilities:
• Guide a regional group to ensure effective teamwork between patient safety enablement and functions across the business. Set direction, prioritize resources, and uphold compliance with regulations and laws.
• Serve as guide lead for assigned products and safety processes; shape benefit–risk strategy,



signal evaluation and responses to emerging safety issues.
• Strategy Contribution: Give to the regional or functional patient safety strategy and translate strategic priorities into explicit objectives, plans and performance measures.
• Provide specialist patient safety expertise and handle interface activities with external organizations within the country; represent the company in regulatory interactions, inspections and relevant industry forums.
• Lead, guide, evaluate and develop the team within your area; performance lead team leaders, identify development opportunities for direct reports and plan optimally for succession.
• Build a culture of adventurous leadership, creativity and collaboration; role-model explicit decision-making and continuous learning.
• Develop and build cross-functional, multi-skilled teams; drive process improvements, leverage digital tools and data, and ensure audit and inspec

📌 Director Patient Safety Bengaluru (India)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 India