{"data":{"id":158540,"slug":"gruppchef-till-signalgruppen-inom-lakemedelssakerhet","type":"job","title":"Group Manager for the Signal Group in Pharmaceutical Safety","description":"At the Medical Products Agency, we make a difference together. In life and for life. We work for the health of people and animals, for a better Sweden today and in the future.\nDo you have a strong interest and commitment to issues concerning safe medicines and want to contribute to this important mission? The Pharmaceutical Safety unit at the Medical Products Agency is seeking a group manager for the signal group.\nOur Operations\nThe Pharmaceutical Safety unit is part of the Use Business Area and has a central responsibility for safety monitoring of human medicines. We handle reported suspected adverse events and conduct signal detection to identify new safety risks early. The unit processes large amounts of information about suspected adverse events from both Sweden and the rest of Europe. Our mission is to contribute to safe and appropriate medicine use by quickly absorbing and implementing new knowledge.\nThe work involves extensive contacts with other units at the Medical Products Agency, healthcare, authorities, and companies, both nationally and internationally. Our operations are based on a preparedness perspective with stable working methods in both normal circumstances and during crisis and war. The importance of this became particularly clear during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the volume of adverse event reports increased significantly and the unit bore major responsibility in vaccine monitoring.\nIn recent years, we have invested considerable effort in further developing our working methods to more effectively contribute to the Medical Products Agency's important mission. Now we are looking for you to join us and continue this development journey together with our managers and colleagues.\nYour Tasks\nAs group manager, you are responsible for the signal group, one of the unit's three groups, and lead the group's work according to established routines and processes. You have personnel responsibility for the team members and monitor the group's activities, output, and collaborations with regular check-ins with both employees and the unit manager. The signal group has several important internal and external contact points, and you are responsible for ensuring these relationships function well, develop, and are strengthened as needed.\nTogether with the managers of the adverse event groups, you work to ensure harmonized working methods across all three groups, both in regular operations and when implementing new routines. As a leader at the Medical Products Agency, you are expected to be a clear representative of our leadership philosophy based on holistic perspective, courage, commitment, and goal focus. You participate in the unit's management group and actively engage in strategic work and the unit's long-term improvement initiatives.\nYour Background\nYou have completed academic education in clinical pharmacology, nursing, pharmacy, or other medical or natural science education that the employer deems equivalent. We are looking for someone with strong leadership qualities and many years of documented management experience. You have good computer skills.\nIt is meritorious if you have worked with suspected adverse events or have otherwise gained experience in pharmaceutical safety monitoring.\nYou express yourself well in speech and writing in both Swedish and English and are accustomed to presenting in various settings, both in internal meetings and at conferences, for example.\nYour Personal Qualities\nYou lead with commitment, courage, and curiosity and enjoy developing both operations and people. You make well-founded decisions, prioritize with sound judgment, and delegate in a way that builds trust. You build relationships, dialogue, and team spirit and create engagement both within the group and in a broader context. Transparency is an important part of your working style and you view mistakes as a natural part of learning and find it easy to ask when you don't know. You have the ability to lead through change, develop work, and strengthen team competence. You have a genuine interest in leadership and create a work environment where both people and processes reach their full potential.\nWe place great importance on personal qualities.\nGood to Know\nApplication deadline: 2026-09-07\nEmployment type: Permanent\nStart date: By agreement\nUnit: Pharmaceutical Safety Unit\nReference number: 2.4.1-2026-063106\nWe apply a 6-month probationary period.\nWe value diversity and welcome applicants from different backgrounds.\nAt the Medical Products Agency, you have good conditions for work-life balance. We offer you flexible working hours, favorable vacation terms, fitness allowance, and fitness activities during work hours. To the extent that work tasks permit, there is an opportunity to work partially remotely by agreement with your manager.\nRead more about the benefits you receive from us here: https:\/\/www.lakemedelsverket.se\/sv\/om-lakemedelsverket\/jobba-pa-lakemedelsverket\/formaner-hos-oss\nThe Medical Products Agency is a civil contingency authority, which means we conduct certain background checks as part of our recruitment process. You will need to verify your identity at any interview and provide diplomas and relevant certificates. All permanent staff at the Medical Products Agency are war-placed within the agency.\nContact\nYou are welcome to contact unit manager Emilia Lekholm. You can also contact union representatives Jonas Walld\u00e9n, Saco, and Pia Wictor, ST. We can all be reached at telephone 018-17 46 00 or through email firstname.lastname@lakemedelsverket.se.\nMore About the Medical Products Agency\nYou may not often think about the Medical Products Agency, but we can promise you that you encounter us in your daily life. The results of what we do are visible in pharmacies, hospitals, at the veterinarian, and in your bathroom cabinet. We ensure that you and everyone else in Sweden have access to safe and effective medicines and medical devices, from bandages and pregnancy tests to walkers and apps. We do this by approving and granting permits, monitoring and controlling, and by informing and providing advice. We who work at the Medical Products Agency are proud of our important societal mission: to contribute to Swedish public and animal health.\nRead more about our mission and what it means to work at the Medical Products Agency here: https:\/\/www.lakemedelsverket.se\/sv\/om-lakemedelsverket\/jobba-pa-lakemedelsverket\nWe look forward to your application!\nThis recruitment is carried out entirely by the Medical Products Agency. We therefore decline telephone calls from recruitment firms and advertising sales representatives.","language":"sv","is_translated":true,"title_original":"Gruppchef till Signalgruppen inom L\u00e4kemedelss\u00e4kerhet","description_original":"P\u00e5 L\u00e4kemedelsverket g\u00f6r vi skillnad tillsammans. I livet och f\u00f6r livet. Vi jobbar f\u00f6r m\u00e4nniskors och djurs h\u00e4lsa, f\u00f6r ett b\u00e4ttre Sverige idag och i framtiden.\nHar du stort intresse och engagemang f\u00f6r fr\u00e5gor r\u00f6rande s\u00e4kra l\u00e4kemedel och vill vara med och bidra i detta viktiga uppdrag? Vi p\u00e5 L\u00e4kemedelsverkets enhet f\u00f6r L\u00e4kemedelss\u00e4kerhet s\u00f6ker en gruppchef till signalgruppen.\nV\u00e5r verksamhet\nEnheten f\u00f6r L\u00e4kemedelss\u00e4kerhet tillh\u00f6r Verksamhetsomr\u00e5de Anv\u00e4ndning och har ett centralt ansvar f\u00f6r s\u00e4kerhets\u00f6vervakningen av humanl\u00e4kemedel. H\u00e4r hanteras rapporterade misst\u00e4nkta biverkningar och det bedrivs signalspaning f\u00f6r att tidigt uppt\u00e4cka nya s\u00e4kerhetsrisker. Enheten behandlar stora m\u00e4ngder information om misst\u00e4nkta biverkningar b\u00e5de fr\u00e5n Sverige och fr\u00e5n \u00f6vriga Europa. V\u00e5rt uppdrag \u00e4r att bidra till en s\u00e4ker och \u00e4ndam\u00e5lsenlig l\u00e4kemedelsanv\u00e4ndning genom att snabbt ta till oss och oms\u00e4tta ny kunskap.\nArbetet inneb\u00e4r omfattande kontakter med andra enheter p\u00e5 L\u00e4kemedelsverket, h\u00e4lso- och sjukv\u00e5rd, myndigheter och f\u00f6retag, b\u00e5de nationellt och internationellt. Verksamheten vilar p\u00e5 ett beredskapsperspektiv med stabila arbetss\u00e4tt i s\u00e5v\u00e4l normall\u00e4ge som vid kris och krig. Vikten av detta blev s\u00e4rskilt tydligt under Covid\u201119\u2011pandemin, n\u00e4r m\u00e4ngden biverkningsrapporter \u00f6kade kraftigt och enheten bar ett stort ansvar i uppf\u00f6ljningen av vaccinerna.\nUnder senare \u00e5r har vi lagt mycket kraft p\u00e5 att vidareutveckla v\u00e5ra arbetss\u00e4tt f\u00f6r att \u00e4nnu mer effektivt bidra till L\u00e4kemedelsverkets viktiga uppdrag. Nu s\u00f6ker vi dig som vill vara med och forts\u00e4tta den utvecklingsresan tillsammans med v\u00e5ra chefer och medarbetare.\nDina arbetsuppgifter\nSom gruppchef ansvarar du f\u00f6r signalgruppen, en av enhetens tre grupper, och leder gruppens arbete enligt fastst\u00e4llda rutiner och processer. Du har personalansvar f\u00f6r medarbetarna och f\u00f6ljer upp gruppens aktiviteter, produktion och samarbeten och har regelbundna avst\u00e4mningar med b\u00e5de medarbetare och enhetschef. Signalgruppen har flera viktiga interna och externa kontaktytor och du ansvarar f\u00f6r att dessa relationer fungerar v\u00e4l, utvecklas och vid behov st\u00e4rks.\nTillsammans med gruppcheferna f\u00f6r biverkningsgrupperna arbetar du f\u00f6r att s\u00e4kerst\u00e4lla harmoniserade arbetss\u00e4tt mellan alla tre grupper, b\u00e5de i ordinarie verksamhet och n\u00e4r nya rutiner inf\u00f6rs. Som ledare p\u00e5 L\u00e4kemedelsverket f\u00f6rv\u00e4ntas du vara en tydlig f\u00f6retr\u00e4dare f\u00f6r v\u00e5r ledarfilosofi som bygger p\u00e5 helhetssyn, mod, engagemang och m\u00e5lfokus. Du ing\u00e5r i enhetens ledningsgrupp och deltar aktivt i det strategiska arbetet och i enhetens l\u00e5ngsiktiga f\u00f6rb\u00e4ttringsarbete.\nDin bakgrund\nDu har avslutad akademisk utbildning inom klinisk farmakologi, sjuksk\u00f6terska, farmaceut eller annan medicinsk eller naturvetenskaplig utbildning som arbetsgivaren bed\u00f6mer likv\u00e4rdig. Vi s\u00f6ker dig med goda ledaregenskaper och m\u00e5ng\u00e5rig dokumenterad chefserfarenhet. Du har god datorvana.\nDet \u00e4r meriterande om du har arbetat med misst\u00e4nkta biverkningar eller p\u00e5 annat s\u00e4tt har erfarenhet av s\u00e4kerhets\u00f6vervakning av l\u00e4kemedel.\nDu uttrycker dig v\u00e4l i tal och skrift p\u00e5 b\u00e5de svenska och engelska och \u00e4r van att presentera i olika sammanhang, b\u00e5de p\u00e5 interna m\u00f6ten s\u00e5 som p\u00e5 exempelvis konferenser.\nDina personliga egenskaper\nDu leder med engagemang, mod och nyfikenhet och du trivs med att utveckla b\u00e5de verksamhet och m\u00e4nniskor. Du fattar v\u00e4lgrundade beslut, prioriterar med omd\u00f6me och delegerar p\u00e5 ett s\u00e4tt som skapar f\u00f6rtroende. Du bygger relationer, dialog och laganda och skapar delaktighet b\u00e5de i gruppen och i ett bredare sammanhang. Transparens \u00e4r en viktig del av ditt arbetss\u00e4tt och du ser misstag som en naturlig del av l\u00e4randet och har l\u00e4tt att fr\u00e5ga n\u00e4r du inte vet. Du har f\u00f6rm\u00e5gan att leda genom f\u00f6r\u00e4ndring, utveckla arbetet och st\u00e4rka teamets kompetens. Du har ett genuint intresse f\u00f6r ledarskap och skapar ett arbetsklimat d\u00e4r b\u00e5de m\u00e4nniskor och processer n\u00e5r sin fulla potential.\nVi l\u00e4gger stor vikt vid personliga egenskaper.\nBra att veta\nSista ans\u00f6kningsdag: 2026-09-07\nAnst\u00e4llningsform: Tillsvidare\nTilltr\u00e4de: Enligt \u00f6verenskommelse\nEnhet: Enheten f\u00f6r L\u00e4kemedelss\u00e4kerhet\nDiarienummer: 2.4.1-2026-063106\nVi till\u00e4mpar 6 m\u00e5naders provanst\u00e4llning.\nVi v\u00e4rdes\u00e4tter m\u00e5ngfald och v\u00e4lkomnar s\u00f6kande med olika bakgrund.\nP\u00e5 L\u00e4kemedelsverket f\u00e5r du goda f\u00f6ruts\u00e4ttningar f\u00f6r balans i livet. Vi erbjuder dig bland annat flextid, f\u00f6rm\u00e5nliga semestervillkor, friskv\u00e5rdsbidrag samt friskv\u00e5rd p\u00e5 arbetstid. I den m\u00e5n arbetsuppgifterna till\u00e5ter finns det m\u00f6jlighet att delvis arbeta p\u00e5 distans efter \u00f6verenskommelse med chef.\nL\u00e4s mer om de f\u00f6rm\u00e5ner du f\u00e5r hos oss h\u00e4r: https:\/\/www.lakemedelsverket.se\/sv\/om-lakemedelsverket\/jobba-pa-lakemedelsverket\/formaner-hos-oss\nL\u00e4kemedelsverket \u00e4r beredskapsmyndighet, vilket inneb\u00e4r att vi genomf\u00f6r vissa bakgrundskontroller i samband med rekryteringar. Du kommer vid en eventuell intervju att beh\u00f6va styrka din identitet samt uppvisa examensbevis och relevanta intyg. All tillsvidareanst\u00e4lld personal vid L\u00e4kemedelsverket \u00e4r krigsplacerad inom myndigheten.\nKontakt\nDu \u00e4r v\u00e4lkommen att kontakta enhetschef Emilia Lekholm. Du kan \u00e4ven kontakta de fackliga f\u00f6retr\u00e4darna Jonas Walld\u00e9n, Saco och Pia Wictor, ST. Vi finns alla p\u00e5 telefon 018-17 46 00 eller n\u00e5s genom e-post fornamn.efternamn@lakemedelsverket.se.\nMer om L\u00e4kemedelsverket\nDu t\u00e4nker kanske inte s\u00e5 ofta p\u00e5 L\u00e4kemedelsverket, men vi kan lova att du m\u00f6ter oss i din vardag. Resultatet av det vi g\u00f6r m\u00e4rks p\u00e5 apotek, sjukhus, hos veterin\u00e4ren och i ditt badrumssk\u00e5p. Vi ser n\u00e4mligen till att du och alla andra i Sverige f\u00e5r tillg\u00e5ng till s\u00e4kra och effektiva l\u00e4kemedel och medicintekniska produkter, allt fr\u00e5n pl\u00e5ster och graviditetstester till rollatorer och appar. Det g\u00f6r vi genom att godk\u00e4nna och ge tillst\u00e5nd, \u00f6vervaka och kontrollera och genom att informera och ge r\u00e5d. Vi som arbetar p\u00e5 L\u00e4kemedelsverket \u00e4r stolta \u00f6ver v\u00e5rt viktiga samh\u00e4llsuppdrag: att bidra till den svenska folk- och djurh\u00e4lsan.\nL\u00e4s mer om v\u00e5rt uppdrag och vad det inneb\u00e4r att arbeta p\u00e5 L\u00e4kemedelsverket h\u00e4r: https:\/\/www.lakemedelsverket.se\/sv\/om-lakemedelsverket\/jobba-pa-lakemedelsverket\nV\u00e4lkommen med din ans\u00f6kan!\nDenna rekrytering sker helt genom L\u00e4kemedelsverkets f\u00f6rsorg. 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