Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance Career Path in Japan

What 50 live Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance job postings from 23 employers in Japan ask for at each level, read from the postings themselves and refreshed daily.

Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.

Key Findings

  1. 78% of 49 postings ask for day-to-day English or above. See the figures

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What Gets You In

78% of 49 postings ask for day-to-day English or above.

24%

78% day-to-day or above

  • Pharmacovigilance

    66%

  • Clinical Trials

    54%

  • Medical Devices

    40%

  • GVP

    36%

  • PMDA

    28%

  • Regulatory Affairs

    28%

  • Oncology

    26%

  • Project Management

    22%

Share of 50 postings sampled for the skill terms

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance career path in Japan?

This page reads it from live Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance job postings tracked on AirTA: what postings ask for at each level of experience, how stated pay, certifications, English and management experience change between levels, and the next steps employers name in their own postings. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.

How many years of experience do Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance postings ask for?

"What Gets You In" shows the share of postings at each stated threshold: 1-2, 3-4, 5-9 and 10 or more years. Only postings that state a threshold are counted; the rest are not placed. A stated threshold is what the employer wrote, not an estimate.

What do Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance postings pay at each level?

Pay bands are the 25th to 75th percentile of the salaries employers stated on their postings, with the median, for the whole function and for each experience tier that holds at least 30 stated salaries from 10 employers. No third-party salary data is blended in, and a level without enough stated salaries shows no band rather than a figure borrowed from another level.

What comes after a Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance role?

"What Comes Next" counts the next steps employers name in the career-path section of their own postings: people management, senior leadership, a specialist track, project management, an overseas assignment or an internal transfer, as the number of employers naming each. It describes what employers wrote, not a promotion forecast for any individual.

Where do the numbers come from?

From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.

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