Principal Product Risk Specialist

About the role:
Responsible for the analysis and communication of clinical product risk across the project and product lifecycle. Provides guidance in safety signal detection and assessment to communicate safety risks to project teams and senior management. Ensures compliance with regulatory standards and guidelines, and corporate standard operating procedures as they relate to safety risk management.

Responsibilities will include:

• Produce and maintain Clinical Evaluation Reports (CERs) for the global product portfolio in accordance with company SOPs and applicable regional regulations (e.g., FDA 510(k)/PMA, EU MDR, Health Canada, PMDA, etc.).
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to obtain additional input to aid clinical risk analysis
• Analyze literature searches on products/product families to interpret and summarize harms, hazards, alternate therapies and device specific benefits from literature to support risk assessment.
• Identifies the need for and/or generates clinical risk related documents on Company products (commercial or under development) to support internal and external regulatory agency requirements
• Serves as a liaison between Clinical Product Risk function and project team.
• Clearly communicates pertinent project/function information.
• Collaborate with Clinical and R&D to develop common Clinical deliverable criteria and strategize justification for no clinical trial or aid in development of clinical trial rationalization plan.
• Mentors and serves as subject matter expert in key clinical product risk activities; participates as a risk management consultant for complex projects and for grouping similar products into logical and sustainable structure.
• Serve as product SME during FDA, Notified Body, and internal audits; prepare back-room documentation and CAPA responses.

Required Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of professional experience in life sciences, engineering, or related field.
• Or 10+ years of professional experience in the respective field.
• Medical and/or technical writing experience required
• Experience writing multiple Clinical Evaluation Reports (CER)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Medical Device industry experience preferred
• Therapeutic area knowledge desired
• Ability to work cross-functionally at all levels of organization
• Proven ability to analyze, interpret and synthesize clinical and commercial data
• Attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Understanding and application of business concepts, procedures and practices.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment and failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.