PMS & RM Specialist

Job Title
PMS & RM Specialist

Job Description

Your role:
You are responsible for managing activities related to product safety surveillance and risk management including review of data from clinical studies and spontaneous complaints for accuracy, completeness, regulatory reporting and potential safety issues.

Key Responsibilities include :

• Creation of PMS Plans
• Creation of PMS Reports
• Creation of Periodic Quality Review Reports
• Creation of PSURs
• Audit and Inspection support/ CAPA owner
• Issue Impact Assessment (IIA) & Health hazard Assessment (HHE) Preparation/Coordination
  
  

Post Market Surveillance (PMS)

• Ensures standard PMS processes across business units.
• Assures consistent PMS plans exists for all products.
• Assures consistent and standard process exists to perform proactive surveillance (e.g. regulatory database searches, literature reviews) and reactive surveillance (e.g. complaints handling, field actions).
• Assures consistent PMS Reports across business units.
  
  

Patient Safety and Regulatory Reporting

• In collaboration with Medical Affairs, monitors and assesses safety signals, and recommends actions.
• Assesses product relationship to reported complaint.
• Assures standard regulatory reporting assessment criteria.
• Provides input to clinical conclusion to be included in the reports to competent authorities.
  
  

Risk Management

• Support standard RM processes.
• In collaboration with stakeholders, defines standard risk acceptability criteria (RAC) with stakeholders.
• Supports the development of consistent RM plans exists for all products. Assures consistent RM plans exists for all products.
• Provides oversight and clinical guidance on risk assessments including post-market risk assessments and health hazard evaluations.
  
  

PMS and RM Governance

• Assures standard PMS and RM governance across Business Units.
• Provides oversight of PMS and RM processes and assures standard approach.
• Signal Assessment & Escalation:
  
  

Ensures standard statistical trending techniques.

Assesses significant triggers & safety concerns.

Manage recurrent PMS/RM data review meetings.

Assures standard approach for signal disposition. Incorporate findings in PMS reports and updated RM files as required.

PMS and RM input into Product Development

• Represent PMS interests in multi-disciplinary teams during product development.
• Assures development and completion of PMS & RM deliverables throughout the design process.
• Provides input of PMS related product risk & quality issues during the development of new products.
  
  

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor’s degree with min. 8 Yrs. of experience.
• Working knowledge of appropriate global medical device regulations, requirements and standards such as 21 CFR Parts 803, 806, and 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, European Medical Device Directive (93/42/EEC), EU Medical Device Regulations, Canadian Medical Devices Regulations (SOR/98-282), and Japanese MHLW Ordinance 169.
• Good Verbal and written communication skills.
• Analytical skills and focus on detail.
• Teamwork in and outside Q&R.
• Fluent in English (verbal and written).
• Product Knowledge is preferred.
• Medical Device and or other regulated industry (e.g. Pharma, IVD) is preferred.
  
  

How We Work Together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

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About Philips

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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.

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