The ideal candidate possesses an Master in Science or a degree in medicine, pharmacy, or natural sciences, paired with a
minimum of two years of Information Science experience specifically within Pharmacovigilance and drug development
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General Information:
Start Date: ASAP, latest Possible Start Date:
Duration: 9 months maternity cover
Workplace: Basel
Workload:e.g.: 100%
Home Office: yes
Tasks & 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 Roche stakeholders, departments and functions as required
* Ensures any issues relating to literature searches are adequately addressed at the lowest level and escalated appropriately
Must Haves:
* Master in Science or a 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
* Fluent in English (verbal and written)