**Description** The Executive Director, Medical Safety – Eye Health & Emerging Areas is a leading and experienced medical expert with a sound clinical and scientific background combined with deep pharmacovigilance experience. The incumbent has full overall medical strategic accountability for the benefit risk and product risk minimization of activities for a portfolio of investigational compounds or projects on global level. This may include direct product responsibility as well as oversight of a team of physicians. As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees. **Duties & Responsibilities** + Leads a team responsible for the development of proactive risk management strategies for a portfolio of investigational products within Eye Health on global level (generally between 3 and 10 compounds and/or projects). This includes the following actions/activities e.g.: accountability for risk benefit profile of relevant products as well as to take medical judgements with a high business impact. This may include “hands on” responsibilities for products as well as oversight of responsible patient safety physicians. + Leads and manages a team of risk management physicians responsible for a compound/product or portfolio of products including project management, project- specific training and coaching of team members, review of team output. + Provides updates of the assigned drug’s safety profile to senior management and recommends pharmacovigilance / risk management activities to BI decision-making bodies Participate in internal and external committees & bodies with the responsibility to steer and drive relevant discussions concerning benefit – risk assessments of products and other medical safety topics. + Contributes to the further development of pharmacovigilance within Boehringer by staying abreast of state-of-the-art methodology, changes in the regulatory environment and developments and trends in healthcare system and society. + May support or lead strategic projects within Experimental Medicine + Strategically leads, manages / performs, and medical-scientifically directs a team of risk management physicians responsible for a product or portfolio of products regarding all pharmacovigilance activities, (and may have “hands on” responsibilities for products as well) including: + Continuous monitoring and further development of the product/portfolio safety profile + Safety issue management: medical scientific data analysis, development of strategies to minimize and communicate potential risk to patients and prescribers, set-up of safety analyses in clinical trial databases. + Reviewing and providing safety-related medical-scientific input to relevant internal and regulatory documents. **Requirements** + Medical Doctor (MD) with a strong medical-scientific background, gained through long-term professional experience in research and/or medical practice + A minimum of 5+years of applicable experience (incl. clinical practice, research, or relevant pharmaceutical industry) + A minimum of 3 years of leadership proven leadership role of global or multidisciplinary teams with the ability to coach and inspire your team to achieve delivery excellence + Expertise in the clinical development of investigational compounds, including patient safety, pharmacovigilance, and risk minimization strategies + Board Certification/Medical experience in Ophthalmology would be a plus + Excellent capability to take sound medical decisions in an environment of high uncertainty and with critical impact for the company and for patients’ well-being. + Strategic mindset to drive patient safety and evidence generation within cross-functional and collaborative settings. + Strong communication, collaboration, and negotiation skills, combined with intercultural awareness + Excellent and deep medical scientific background. + Experience in translational medicine from research to Phase I up to Proof of Concept (POC) ideal + Experience within pharmacovigilance or another related field. + Excellent capability to take sound medical decisions in an environment of high uncertainty and with critical impact for the company and for patients’ well-being. + Highly ethical personality putting patient safety first. + Self-starter and driving personality. + Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills. + Strong leadership skills. **Compensation Data** Compensation:  This position offers a base salary typically between $250,000 and $394,000.  The position may be eligible for a role specific variable or performance based bonus and or other compensation elements.  For an overview of our benefits please click here (https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/us/careers/benefits-rewards) . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to a person’s actual or perceived race, including natural hairstyles, hair texture and protective hairstyles; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; citizenship status, marital status; gender, gender identity or expression; sexual orientation, mental, physical or intellectual disability, veteran status; pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law.