Scientific Officer

Job

In these positions, among other duties, you will contribute with your scientific, regulatory and procedural expertise to the evaluation and lifecycle oversight of medicinal products and medical devices in the European Union. You will coordinate committee and expert activities, manage the advice procedure for medical devices and provide regulatory intelligence to internal and external stakeholders.

Working in a highly collaborative EU regulatory environment, you will support high-quality scientific opinions, robust benefit–risk assessments, and consistent application of EU legislation, contributing directly to the protection and promotion of public and animal health.

Scientific Committee Officer:
This role oversees the full organisational and procedural management of Committee meetings, including preparing agendas, ensuring compliance with rules and conflicts of interest policies, and producing accurate minutes and publications. It ensures effective coordination, record management, and continuous process improvement across Committees while monitoring work plans and escalating significant issues when needed. The role also provides delegated scientific, regulatory, and procedural support in pre and post-authorisation activities.
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Scientific Officer (Medical Devices)
The role involves managing endtoend advice procedures for medical devices, from validating submissions and coordinating expert involvement to monitoring timelines and ensuring highquality panel outputs. It also covers governance and operational support for the Medical Device Expert Panels, including preparing procedural documents, organising expert selection, training, and meetings. Additionally, the role ensures regulatory implementation, consistency across panels, publication of opinions, and responses to internal and external queries.
matching your skills, competencies and experience.

Scientific Officer (Product Lead)
The product lead role, leads the scientific and regulatory evaluation and post-license oversight of human medicines by leading the wider EMA product team and liaising closely with Rapporteurs and their assessment teams. Each product lead manages a product portfolio, drives benefit–risk assessments, coordinates product teams, and act as primary point of contact for applicants and Rapporteurs. The role also includes close collaboration with working parties and coordination of drafting groups works on scientific guidelines, as well as scientific and regulatory exchanges with third party regulators via the EMA clusters.

Regulatory Affairs Officer
This role provides expert regulatory advice across the Agency, supporting scientific committees and working groups on topics such as paediatrics, orphan designation, scientific advice, and safety. It involves developing regulatory and procedural guidance, ensuring compliance with EU legislation for an assigned portfolio of medicinal products, and supporting the implementation of new pharmaceutical laws. The role also coordinates with the European Commission and EMA’s legal department to ensure coherent and robust regulatory positions.

Read full description and requirements here: Scientific Officer (multiple roles) Job Details | EMA

Profile

1. Enjoy full rights as a citizen of a European Union Member State or Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway.
2. A thorough knowledge of English (at least level C1) and a satisfactory knowledge of another official language of the European Union (at least level B2);
3. Have fulfilled any obligations imposed by applicable laws concerning military service.
4. Possess a university degree of a minimum of three years in Medcine or Life Sciences

Read full description and requirements here: Scientific Officer (multiple roles) Job Details | EMA

Benefits

• Initial 5 year contract.
• competitive monthly tax-free salary (4,449.31 Euro based on a fulltime contract (40hrs/week), plus benefits like expatriation or household & children’s allowances (where applicable)
• Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave
• Relocation assistance
• Excellent health insurance scheme and social benefits
• Retirement Pension Plan

Company profile

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is a decentralised agency of the European Union (EU). It is responsible for the scientific evaluation, supervision and safety monitoring of medicines.

At EMA we foster scientific excellence in the evaluation and supervision of medicines.

EMA protects public and animal health in EU Member States, as well as the countries of the European Economic Area, by ensuring that all medicines available on the EU market are safe, effective and of high quality. EMA serves a community of around 450 million people living in the EU, and has been operating since 1995.