Director, Pharmacovigilance

Reporting to: VP Pharmacovigilance

Location: London, UK / Hybrid

Orchard Therapeutics is a global biotechnology gene therapy company dedicated to transforming the lives of people affected by rare diseases through the development of innovative, potentially curative cell and gene therapies. Orchard has its global headquarters in London and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyowa Kirin, a Japan-based Global Specialty Pharmaceutical Company.

Job Summary

The Director, Pharmacovigilance is a safety expert with medical/scientific knowledge on the safety and benefit-risk profile of one or more Orchard products that can be in the investigational and / or marketed phase of its life cycle. In addition to being an integral part of the safety team for assigned product safety activities, this position would be the Orchard PV lead responsible for global medical product-related activities. The Director, Pharmacovigilance works in close collaboration with the other cross functional leads to seamlessly and proactively draft/implement a strategic program/product specific benefit-risk plan and support or directly interface with Health Authorities in all geographies as appropriate on product safety issues and product filings.

As an experienced medical monitor, the Director, Pharmacovigilance will provide medical and clinical oversight for one or more gene therapy programs. T