Senior Data Scientist – Literature –

 

 

Our client is a leading Swiss multinational healthcare company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Operating in Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics, it is one of the world’s largest biotech companies and a global leader in in-vitro diagnostics and cancer treatments. Our client is known for its strong focus on innovation, particularly in personalized healthcare, and has played a major role in developing treatments for oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, and neuroscience.

 

The ideal candidate possesses an M.S. or University degree in medicine, pharmacy, or natural sciences, paired with a minimum of two years of Information Science experience specifically within Pharmacovigilance and drug development. They must be a self-motivated team player with excellent analytical thinking, communication, and training skills, ensuring timely and compliant delivery of search results while proactively improving processes and fostering strong cross-functional relationships.

 

This is a 9-month contract role with possible extension, based in Basel to join the PV & Scientific Development department.

Main Responsibilities

 

·      Performs ad-hoc literature searches in biomedical databases to identify adverse drug reactions and risks in association with company’s medicinal products and devices.

·      Develops, tests, documents and maintains literature search profiles to identify published case reports of adverse drug reactions in association with company’s medicinal products.

·      Develops, tests, documents and maintains search profiles to identify adverse drug reactions and risks in association with company’s medicinal products for the following purposes: Development Safety Update Reports (DSURs), Periodic Benefit-Risk Evaluation Reports (PBRERs) and signal detection.

·      Develops, tests, documents and maintains search profiles to identify incidents and risks in association with company’s medical devices for the following purposes: Medical Device Incident Reports (MDIR) and signal detection.

·      Performs efficacy searches in biomedical databases for PDMA to identify the efficacy of company’s medicinal products for the following purposes: Periodic Safety Update Reports (PBRER).

·      Maintains effective relationship with customers in PDS and beyond Interacts with customers to define the search criteria for literature searches.

·      Checking the results of literature searches for plausibility.

·      Ensure timely and correct delivery of search results.

·      Performs literature searches in compliance with Standard Operating Procedures.

·      Acts as core member in Safety Literature Group, active contribution to knowledge sharing.

·      Creates training material for team members and stakeholders on retrieval and reporting related topics and delivers the training

·      Proactively raise ideas and identify opportunities to enhance ways of working (including processes, methods, technologies etc.). and share best practices and lessons learned with peers.

·      Establish, promote and maintain effective working relationships with other stakeholders, departments and functions as required.

·      Ensures any issues relating to literature searches are adequately addressed at the lowest level and escalated appropriately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Qualifications and Experience:

 

·      Relevant Swiss working/residency permit or Swiss/EU-Citizenship required

·      M.S. or University degree in medicine, pharmacy or natural sciences.

·      Min. 2 years experience in Information Science and solid pharmaceutical experience in research, development or research informatics, including experience in Pharmacovigilance

·      Good knowledge of medicine and drug development

·      Good knowledge of external and internal biomedical and drug literature databases as well as the corresponding retrieval systems and languages

·      Ability to evaluate, interpret and synthesize scientific data (analytical thinking)

·      Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to present and critically discuss scientific data in discussions

·      Classical text searching capabilities

·      Expertise in literature sources and databases both, internal and external (e.g. Competitor Information Access Platform; DIALOG)

·      Ability to build strong working relationships with appropriate personnel in other functional groups within and outside of the Safety Risk Management (PDS) organization.

·      Strong communication skills in an international cross-functional environment with the ability to effectively explain search strategies, both verbally and in writing

·      Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to present and critically discuss scientific data in discussions

·      Team player with ability to function in a multi-disciplinary environment

·      Self –motivated, able to prioritize and plan effectively

·      Good attention to detail

·      Fluent in English (verbal and written)

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