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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