Information Scientist
Posted Today by AstraZeneca
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Clinical Information Scientist involves supporting clinical trial design within oncology R&D for a 12-month contract. The position requires candidates to possess strong presentation skills, data visualization capabilities, and a solid understanding of the drug development process. The role is fully remote but requires candidates to be based in the UK. Two vacancies are available for this interim position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support decision-making in clinical design, submission, and interpretation by identifying, benchmarking, extracting, and presenting meaningful facts and data.
- Utilize techniques such as text mining and data visualization to extract key relevant information for clinical study design decisions.
- Maintain a repository of key data, consolidating historical decisions for team reference.
- Plan and work independently, taking responsibility for specific deliveries within drug projects while ensuring high-quality deliverables.
Key Skills:
- Masters or advanced degree in Life Science.
- Experience in conducting literature and database searches.
- Understanding/exposure to the pharmaceutical drug development process.
- Experience in information and knowledge management in a clinical or scientific setting.
- Good written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills.
- Good organizational skills with the ability to multitask and set priorities.
- Great attention to detail.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Title: Clinical Information Scientist
Remote/Onsite Requirement: 100% Remote – Must be UK-Based
Duration of Contract: 12 Months
Days/Hours: Full Time
QDOS Determination: Outside
Desired Start Date: ASAP
Number of Vacancies: x2 candidates
AZ currently require 2x Clinical Information Scientists to support with Clinical Trial Design within oncology R&D. This is interim and requires a candidate with confident presentation skills, data visualization and understanding of the drug development process.
Job Specification
- Support decision-making in clinical design, submission and interpretation by identifying, benchmarking, extracting and presenting back meaningful facts and data via internal and external competitor intelligence information sources
- Use techniques such as: text mining and data visualization extracting key relevant information enabling timely and objective clinical study design decision
- Maintain a repository of key data, bringing together key historical decisions for wide team to use and refer to
- Plan and work independently and take responsibility for specific deliveries within a drug project, and ensure high quality is built into deliverables
Essential for the job
- Masters or advanced degree in Life Science
- Experience in conducting literature and database searches
- Understanding/Exposure of the pharmaceutical drug development process(setting could include, , but are not limited to: Clin Ops, Regulatory, Early development, medical affairs, Competitive/Regulatory Intelligence)
- Experience in the application of information and knowledge management in a clinical or scientific setting
- Good written and verbal communication skills including presentation skills and proficiency in communicating complex information to a diverse audience
- Good organizational skills with the ability to multitask, set priorities and follow a timeline
- Great attention to detail