Job Description
Position Overview:
Leader within Clinical Literature Information Center (CLIC), which provides published clinical information for the Company. Manages the screening, indexing, abstracting, literature acquisition, and searching functions for CLIC. Maintains up-to-date awareness of biomedical literature, copyright compliance, adverse event reporting, and information storage and retrieval systems. Coaches, mentors, and manages performance of vendor staff as necessary. Represents the department with outside entities as appropriate. Evaluates and updates processes and policies to ensure the most efficient use of resources. Participates in the maintenance the Company Product Literature database and supporting systems to ensure optimum performance, reliability, data integrity, security, and copyright compliance. Directs the development, maintenance, and control activities of CLIC terminology.
Primary Activities include, but are not limited to:

• Provides for the clinical information needs of the Company by regularly engaging with stakeholders and maintaining awareness of current information trends and systems.
• Evaluates proposals and developments sponsored by intra-company information or systems units for their applicability to specific information needs of the users of CLIC services. Collaborates with internal and external organizations for the exchange of systems and information development. Participates in the development of programs to promote CLIC services.
• Leads the development of, with input from internal stakeholders and knowledge of current regulatory requirements, the article selection, adverse event reporting, editorial, and indexing policies and procedures of CLIC for its partners. Ensures comprehensive creation, maintenance, communication, and training of all standard operating procedures (SOPs), guidelines, and job aids related to these functions.
• Contributes to the management of published literature and conference abstract acquisition and translation.
• Participates in the assessment of new job applicants, the training of new hires and vendor staff, and the evaluation of designated employee skills and performance.
• Leads end-user search training and request fulfillment. Liaises with our company's regulatory groups to ensure search request results meet current regulatory requirements.
• Supports the collection of monthly metrics to ensure production objectives and budget forecasts are met.
• Manages the collaboration with our company's PV in meeting current adverse event literature monitoring requirements.
• Maintains awareness of developments in the fields of medical information, regulatory policy, adverse event reporting, information storage and retrieval, and information services.
• Participates in the collaboration with our company's IT to maintain the Company Product Literature Database to ensure the maximum performance, reliability, data integrity, security, copyright compliance, and precision and recall of the database. Leads end-user and system application development.
• Monitors data processing, harmonization, deduplication, and standardization activities.
• Directs the development, maintenance and control activities of CLIC terminology to ensure optimal precision and recall of CLIC data.
• Manages projects to improve CLIC services and efficiencies and meet the changing needs of the various user groups.
• Manages the development and maintenance of CLIC procedure manuals and system documentation.
• Leads projects/initiatives or other data management tasks
• Identifies opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness and quality and implement changes as appropriate

Skills:
Education

• Degree in life sciences, information science, pharmacy or related scientific discipline plus literature-related regulatory reporting
  
  • Bachelor's and 9+ years of experience
  • Master's and 7+ years
  • PhD and 3+ years

Required

• 3+ years of work with biomedical literature and pharmacovigilance activities
• Pharmaceutical industry experience that includes work with biomedical literature and pharmacovigilance activities
• Advanced knowledge of licensed databases and scientific information resources, such as Dialog, PubMed, Embase
• Working knowledge of information storage and retrieval systems
• Experience working with vendors that provide systems and services
• Experience with audits and inspections, especially those related to pharmacovigilance

Preferred

• Knowledge of biomedical literature sources and content
• Knowledge of commercial biomedical database structure, content, and content search/retrieval
• Knowledge of biomedical literature abstracting/indexing
• Knowledge of literature translation processes/procedures
• Familiarity with copyright compliance
• Familiarity with the application of semantic technologies, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) or Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Experience with the SDLC (system development lifecycle)

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Expected salary range:
$122,800.00 - $193,300.00
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
Not Indicated
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
n/a
Job Posting End Date:
05/14/2024
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Job Posting End Date:05/14/2024
A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
Requisition ID:R287691