Background:The Scientific and Healthcare Research Team provides specialist searching and information retrieval services across the KnowledgePoint360 Group, working across a wide variety of pharmaceutical products and disease areas.
The Scientific and Healthcare Researcher must be experienced in conducting advanced and complex information searches using information and literature sources, external databases (e.g. Pubmed, ProQuest Dialog, Web of Knowledge) and internet searching techniques. Working across multiple projects at any given time, the Scientific and Healthcare Researcher will provide relevant information and analyses to KnowledgePoint’s medical and commercial teams to support in the development publication planning, educational materials and strategic communication activities. The Scientific and Healthcare Researcher must be able to demonstrate an ability to prioritise multiple workloads and to interpret internal customer needs and communicate scientific content.
Person Specification
Ø Ability to work as part of a team
Ø Service-orientated mentality
Ø Proactive, organised and able to work under own initiative
Ø Good understanding of and adherence to pharmaceutical marketing, data privacy, copyright and healthcare professional compliance regulations
Qualifications
Ø Ideally a Life Science or Pharmacy degree.
Ø Previous medical information experience within the pharmaceutical industry is a distinct advantage.
Ø Excellent working knowledge of Excel, additional technical skills in Microsoft Access and Visual Basic are an advantage.