Our client is looking for a Safety informatician / medical informatics contractor to join their team for an initial 6-month contract – due to COVID-19 this can be performed remotely initially
We are looking for dedicated safety candidates with in-depth expertise in a variety of data sources/databases, to help the project team to gain full value from information sources, analytics, and technologies.
You will be contributing to the development of the informatics/information science strategy and be responsible for their implementation planning and execution.
You will also work proactively and drive innovative approaches to informatics and analytics to meet the needs of Safety Analytics project team.
Your role will include successfully managing relationships with stakeholders across the business. And collaborate very closely with customer teams, relevant leaders within Patient Science Centre of Excellence
Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential
• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or information sciences discipline, with an understanding of how information is utilised to support safety and benefit-risk activities as part of bio-pharmaceutical drug development.
• Proven technical competence, with hands-on experience, in identifying and delivering informatics and analytics solutions in complex business settings.
• Knowledge of relevant data sources, informatics, and analytics tools and database structures.
• Able to work with a high degree of autonomy
• Broad knowledge of the safety information and analytics tools required to support drug development, including a comprehensive understanding of clinical trials, regulatory safety requirements, pharmacovigilance practices, epidemiology practices, and safety project team activities.
• Experience in safety signal management and/or the exploitation of clinical study safety data to define the safety profile of a products used in clinical settings.
• Able to identify opportunities to lead change through innovation – seeking continuous improvement based on strong awareness of external competitive practice.
• Knowledge of relevant areas of programming, database development and statistical analysis methods.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to influence / shape their particular area of expertise, along with the ability to understand multiple, complex business needs and identify ways in which existing or newly designed solutions could address these in an effective and efficient manner.
Desirable
• MSc or PhD in a Life Science, Computer Science or Information Science preferred
• Experience of coordinating the delivery of relevant informatics services to support of safety-related activities in the context of clinical bio-pharmaceutical development.
• Ability to articulate complex safety-related business needs in the context of systems design, architecture and development.
• Experience of a wide array of systems and platforms, databases and/or the use of semantic technologies to query data.
• Experience in integrating information across multiple domains
• Business awareness of wider developments within the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in relation to the safety surveillance of vaccine data.
• Experience across multiple therapeutic or business areas, or in working in safety-related roles within other biopharmaceutical, regulatory, or health organizations.
• Experience in working across different geographic locations, organisations, and cultures to drive vendor and customer relationship management.
If interested please call Glen Fairbrother on 02079401212 / glenf@msigroupltd.com
