Clarivate Pharmacovigilance Specialist Job For Life Sciences, Apply Online
Senior Pharmacovigilance Specialist – Search Services
Location: Karnataka, India
Job ID: JREQ129641
Posted Date: November 4th, 2024
Senior Pharmacovigilance Specialist
Job Profile Summary
This position involves Biomedical Literature Searching in our team and requires knowledge of biomedical literature and searching databases such as MEDLINE, Embase, and Biosis Previews. You will need broad knowledge of biomedical terminology, drugs, and therapeutic areas. In this role, you are responsible for conducting specialized, complex research and analysis to produce quality search results for clients. Using your expertise, you will also have opportunities to share your knowledge through mentoring and coaching of other team members.
What You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Nursing, Chemistry, Information Sciences, or related field. Advanced degree (e.g., PharmD, MD, PhD) preferred.
- At least 5 years of experience reviewing biomedical literature for adverse event reporting, with specific expertise in literature screening.
- Strong writing skills to create succinct, accurate, and precise summaries and working knowledge of biomedical terminology, drugs, and therapeutic areas.
- In-depth knowledge of pharmacovigilance principles, adverse event reporting requirements, signal detection methodologies, and risk assessment principles.
- Strong understanding of pharmacovigilance regulations and guidelines (e.g., ICH, GVP) and experience with regulatory submissions.
What Will You Be Doing in This Role?
- Develop and refine literature search strategies and methodologies to ensure comprehensive and systematic screening of scientific literature databases, including MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase, Biosis Previews, and other biomedical databases.
- Proficient in searching literature for NDA, PSUR, DSUR, AER, and client-requested searches to identify relevant safety information, including adverse events, safety signals, and emerging risks associated with assigned products.
- Support the development and execution of a literature search training program that aligns with internal guidelines, industry best practices, and is flexible enough to include customer-specific directives.
- Assist leads and managers with internal training of new recruits, organize regular refresher training sessions for the team, assess trainee performance, keep training records up-to-date, and ensure documentation is ready for audits.
- Analyze search requests from clients and design and input search strategies that result in specific and accurate retrieval from commercial databases.
- Maintain awareness of new drugs, new therapeutic categories, new disease entities, and changes in biomedical terminology in the published literature to keep department databases responsive.
- Participate in assignment tracking, client communications, and reporting, as requested.
- Possess strong knowledge of biomedical searching platforms such as Dialog, PubMed, or related platforms and understand how to apply thesauri such as MeSH and Emtree.
- Aid in addressing system-related issues of hierarchies and their application in retrieval strategies.
- Collaborate with retrieval and abstract/index specialists on term assignments, confirm appropriateness of solutions, and engage in discussions to ensure adherence to best practices.
- Establish effective collaborations with customers during the pre- and post-sales process to comprehend specific procedures and receive training tailored to the customer’s needs.
About the Team:
The Pharmacovigilance team at Clarivate provides services to multiple global customers covering all therapeutic areas. It offers a supportive working environment with personalized training and opportunities to engage in various aspects of pharmacovigilance and customer engagement.
Hours of Work
The team is based in India (Bangalore and Noida) and follows a hybrid work mode.
At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.
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