Job Description

The Position

Drive global impact from Ingelheim by leading vendor oversight in pharmacovigilance, ensuring high-quality safety data that directly shapes the benefit-risk profile of innovative medicines. This role combines strategic influence with operational excellence, managing large-scale external partnerships and contributing to global GCM outsourcing initiatives. Join a highly visible function at the core of regulatory compliance and patient safety, collaborating with international stakeholders and guiding complex, high-impact processes.

Tasks & responsibilities

• One of your key tasks will be to collaborate with internal GPV stakeholders, ensuring the vendor receives and understands all relevant BI guidance documents related to case processing.
• Regarding vendor governance, you will drive and contribute to the development and update of internal documents, ensuring alignment with outsourcing activities and regulatory requirements.
• Moreover, you will support and execute the global GCM outsourcing strategy and contribute to initiatives that strengthen vendor oversight.
• In addition, you will lead and participate in cross-functional projects impacting case processing outsourcing, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and in line with business requirements.
• Furthermore, you will ensure high-quality safety data processing and regulatory compliance, guiding vendors on adhering to global safety reporting requirements (e.g. FDA, EMA) and internal policies.
• You will be the main contact person for vendor oversight and escalation topics, functionally leading a large external workforce and ensuring efficient, compliant, and cost-conscious operations.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in health care, life science, medical information or data science-related field
• Several years of experience in pharmacovigilance, safety data management, or vendor oversight within a regulated environment
• Proven experience in global safety reporting requirements (e.g. FDA, EMA) and strong understanding of adverse event processes
• Strong knowledge of safety data collection (e.g. LSMV), assessment, reporting, and associated systems and technologies
• Experience in vendor management, including guiding external partners and handling escalations in a global setup and the ability to apply regulatory, process, and system knowledge
• Strong communication skills, analytical thinking, structured working style, and fluency in English

As part of our commitment to transparency and fairness, salary information will be shared during the recruitment process. We also offer a comprehensive benefits and wellbeing package.

Applications from persons with severe disabilities are warmly welcomed. In cases of equal qualifications, such applicants will be given preferential consideration in the selection process.

Ready to contact us?

If you have any questions about the job posting or process - please contact our HR Direct Team, Tel: +49 (0) 6132 77-3330 or via mail: hr.de@boehringer-ingelheim.com

Recruitment process:

Step 1: Online application - The job posting is presumably online until September 9th,2026. We reserve the right to take the posting offline beforehand.
Step 2: Virtual meeting in the period from end of August till beginning of September
Step 3: On-site interviews mid of September

Please submit your application documents in English.