Biogen Posted June 11, 2026

Associate Medical Director, Global Drug Safety

Cambridge, United States Full time
Pharmacovigilance Director

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About this opportunity

About This Role

As the Associate Medical Director, Global Drug Safety, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding patient well-being and shaping the safety strategy for both investigational and marketed products across our portfolio. In this highly visible position, you will serve as a medical and scientific leader within Global Pharmacovigilance, applying your clinical expertise and sound judgment to ensure the highest standards of product safety throughout development and commercialization.

What You’ll Do

The Associate Medical Director, Global Safety Physician will be responsible for global pharmacovigilance for investigational and/or marketed products, including:

review and analysis of safety data

design of clinical trials

identification and investigation of safety signals

management of benefit-risk profile for assigned compounds and products.

Who You Are

You are a proven leader in safety & pharmacovigilance. You thrive on developing, executing and advancing successful programs throughout multiple phases of development. You have experience working / leading high performing teams, providing the necessary guidance and mentoring for all to reach their goals.

Required Skills

MD or MD/PhD required

Minimum 3+ years experience in the pharmaceutical industry or clinical care setting; ideally specific to pharmacovigilance.

Prior experience in clinical trials preferred; academic and/or industry

Knowledge of pre- and post- marketing US and EU regulations

Job Level: Management

Additional Information

The base compensation range for this role is: $194,000.00-$267,000.00

Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.

Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.

In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being ; including, but not limited to:

Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances

Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement

Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance

A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)

Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance

80 hours of sick time per calendar year

Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit

401(k) program participation with company matched contributions

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year

Employee Resource Groups participation

Why Biogen?

We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired.  Read on  to learn more about Biogen.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.

Job details

Seniority
Director
Function
Pharmacovigilance
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Cambridge, United States
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Pharmacovigilance role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 16 comparable Director Pharmacovigilance roles across 10 biopharma companies.

16Comparable roles tracked
11Currently active
10Companies hiring similar roles
7Countries represented

Salary context

3 of 16 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Medical Director, Neuroscience, Global Patient Safety · AbbVie $160,500/yr – $305,000/yr
Highest disclosed · SERM Senior Scientific Director, Oncology · GlaxoSmithKline LLC $217,800/yr – $363,000/yr
Peer group range $232,750 – $290,400 (median $278,850)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 16 comparable roles

United States8
Canada2
Spain2
Japan1
Sweden1
United Kingdom1

+ 1 more countries

Seniority mix

16 of 16 peers have a known seniority level

Director12
Principal2
Senior Director2

Therapeutic area mix

5 of 16 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Neuroscience2
Oncology2
Vaccines & Infectious Disease1

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The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

60%similar
AbbVie North Chicago, IL Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
Gilead Sciences, Inc. Foster City, United States Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
Celgene Europe Ltd. Princeton, United States Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
Celgene - Summit (Corp) Madison, United States Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
Celgene - Summit (Corp) Princeton, United States Director
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60%similar
E.R. Squibb & Sons,L.L.C. Princeton, United States Director
Same function Same seniority Same country

How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

60%
Medical Director, Neuroscience, Global Patient Safety
AbbVie · North Chicago, IL · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
60%
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Celgene - Summit (Corp) · Madison, United States · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
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45%
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AstraZeneca · Mississauga, Ontario, Canada · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.