.Passion for Innovation. Compassion for Patients.With over 120 years of experience and more than 17,000 employees in over 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo is dedicated to discovering, developing, and delivering new standards of care that enrich the quality of life around the world.In Europe, we focus on two areas : The goal of our Specialty Business is to protect people from cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in Europe, and help patients who suffer from it to enjoy every precious moment of life.In Oncology, we strive to become a global pharma innovator with competitive advantage, creating novel therapies for people with cancer.Our European headquarters are in Munich, Germany, and we have affiliates in 13 European countries and Canada.For our headquarters in all Europe we are seeking highly qualified candidates to fill the position :Senior Director Epidemiology (m / f / x)Purpose of the FunctionThe Senior Director Epidemiology leads Epidemiology activities and / or projects in support of new drug development and / or post-marketing drug safety for the marketed products.The epidemiologist is responsible for the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of pharmacoepidemiologic research studies of assigned DS products, for providing consultation on epidemiologic issues as needed, and lead the strategic plan for epidemiologic studies.This position provides epidemiologic expertise and deliverables for RMP, evaluation of safety signals, feasibility of Epidemiologic studies and / or safety surveillance, and advice for future studies in line with the product strategic plan.Finally, this position approves epidemiologic complex decisions for project teams and makes strategic decisions that impact more than one project team.ResponsibilitiesIntegration of Epidemiology into developmental process and post-marketing safety : The epidemiologist leads a major project area, particularly designs and coordinates all aspects of epidemiologic research programs according to DS strategy and propose new study design and / or statistical analysis as needed.Prepares reports to communicate epidemiologic study results to DS management, internal committees, external investigators, and regulatory agencies.RMP : Primarily responsible for drafting the related sections and / or supporting documents independently. Reviews the documents within epidemiology and safety, and across functions.Literature : Leads the assessment, interpretation and communication of relevant scientific literature reviews; summarizes epidemiologic data; summarizes epidemiologic information and communicates appropriately to the requester. Contributes to the scientific literature in the form of manuscripts and publications and presents them at professional scientific meetings.Epidemiologic studies and / or safety surveillance program : Leads the study design including generation of study concept sheets and protocols and reviews other study documents e.g. statistic analysis plans
