Associate Director, Medical Literature

at  Merck Sharp Dohme

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Leader within Clinical Literature Information Center (CLIC), which provides published clinical information for the Company. Manages the screening, indexing, abstracting, literature acquisition, and searching functions for CLIC. Maintains up-to-date awareness of biomedical literature, copyright compliance, adverse event reporting, and information storage and retrieval systems. Coaches, mentors, and manages performance of vendor staff as necessary. Represents the department with outside entities as appropriate. Evaluates and updates processes and policies to ensure the most efficient use of resources. Participates in the maintenance the Company Product Literature database and supporting systems to ensure optimum performance, reliability, data integrity, security, and copyright compliance. Directs the development, maintenance, and control activities of CLIC terminology.

EDUCATION

• Degree in life sciences, information science, pharmacy or related scientific discipline plus literature-related regulatory reporting
• Bachelor’s and 9+ years of experience
• Master’s and 7+ years
• PhD and 3+ years

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

10%

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