Senior Literature Specialist III

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career these responsibilities include some of the following

• Provide support for Global Safety literature screening activities for both ICSR and signal detection purposes in accordance with their procedures and regulatory requirements.

• Ensure timely production of key deliverables including but not limited to: Screen and review literature search results (articles/abstracts/citations) for purposes of ICSR identification

• Triage literature search results for potential articles of interest with relevant safety information concerning both GSK marketed and GSK products in development for signal detection/periodic reporting purposes using defined algorithms and criteria

• Demonstrate GSK values Be proficient in search strategy activities for literature surveillance.

• Demonstrate expertise in quality checks for literature articles triaged by junior team.

• Develop and share pharmacovigilance and literature surveillance knowledge and experience with team

• Recognize potential issues collaborate with team to resolve.

• Identify or participate in continuous process improvement activities related to area of responsibility or as requested

Why you

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Pharmaceutical industry experience (e.g. drug safety (desired) regulatory clinical development medical affairs)

• Working knowledge of key pharmacovigilance regulations and methodologies Good English language skills written and verbal particularly in scientific/medical terminology

• Ability to evaluate data and draw conclusions with appropriate guidance from senior team members or manager

• Good attention to detail.

• Service-oriented attitude and ability to be a team player and interact effectively with all levels of personnel in an interdisciplinary and matrix environment.

• Computer proficiency IT skills the expertise and ability to work with web-based applications

• Good level of flexibility and ability to prioritize work

• Good/Highly developed interpersonal presentation and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics it would be a plus:

• Bachelors Degree - Life sciences Pharmacy Medical or pharmacology degrees Preferred: Masters degree or higher in Health Sciences.
  

Why GSK

Our values and expectationsare at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus Transparency Respect Integrity along with Courage Accountability Development and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation performance and trust the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Operating at pace and agile decision-making using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace rigour and risk.

• Committed to delivering high quality results overcoming challenges focusing on what matters execution.

• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn build skills and share learning.

• Sustaining energy and well-being

• Building strong relationships and collaboration honest and open conversations.

• Budgeting and cost-consciousness

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Why GSK

Uniting science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose to unite science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger more sustainable shareholder returns as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases HIV respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders its also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves feeling welcome valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So if you share our ambition join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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