Lead Medical Safety Physician

The role

This person will lead the Medical Safety Physician function to ensure quality and medical integrity of safety assessments. They will provide oversight of medical review, signal evaluation, and benefit–risk assessments across clinical development and post-marketing programs.

What you will do

• Define and drive the medical safety strategy across the portfolio
• Provide senior medical safety leadership for safety interpretation and benefit–risk assessment
• Ensure consistent medical oversight of clinical and post-marketing safety activities
• Lead, build, and develop a team of Medical Safety Physicians
• Set standards for medical review quality and consistency
• Scale the organization to support portfolio and geographic growth
• Lead medical evaluation of safety signals in partnership with Safety Science
• Ensure robust benefit–risk assessment across programs
• Integrate clinical interpretation into safety surveillance outputs
• Partner with Clinical Development and Medical Affairs to ensure alignment of safety insights

Required qualifications

• MD required
• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry
• Significant experience in Medical Safety and pharmacovigilance
• Oncology experience required
• Demonstrated success leading Medical Safety organizations and managing teams of Medical Safety Physicians
• Deep expertise in safety signal management, medical review, aggregate safety assessment, and benefit–risk evaluation across clinical development and post-marketing products
• Extensive experience interacting with global health authorities and leading safety-related regulatory activities
• Strong understanding of global pharmacovigilance regulations and industry best practices
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional and executive-level decision-making and build effective partnerships

Nice to have

• board certification in a relevant specialty strongly preferred
• Experience building, scaling, or leading Medical Safety functions in fast-paced or growing organizations preferred
• Strategic medical leadership and executive presence
• Clinical judgment and benefit–risk decision-making
• Medical governance and patient safety leadership
• Cross-functional influence and stakeholder management
• Organizational leadership, talent development, and succession planning
• Regulatory/ health authority engagement
• Executive communication and presentation skills
• Driving organizational change and continuous improvement

Before you apply

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

About the company

Corcept has been focused on the science of cortisol for more than 25 years. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California.