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Medical Information & Safety Operations Specialist- Bilingual English/German, based in Vienna

Employer
IQVIA
Location
Vienna
Start date
24 Jan 2020
Closing date
23 Feb 2020

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Discipline
Medical Communications, Medical Information
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Permanent
Experience Level
Graduate

Job Details

IQVIA™ is the leading human data science company focused on helping healthcare clients find unparalleled insights and better solutions for patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness the power of healthcare data, domain expertise, transformative technology, and advanced analytics to drive healthcare forward.

MEDICAL INFORMATION AND PHARMACOVIGILANCE SPECIALIST- ENGLISH AND GERMAN FLUENCY REQUIRED, BASED IN VIENNA

PURPOSE

Use your scientific and foreign language expertise to join the world’s leading comprehensive pharmaceutical safety services organization at on a fast growing team performing medical information call center services. Apply your knowledge and expertise, including complex decision making, to review, assess and process safety and product quality information. Be a part of a global team to help ensure the safety profiles of products marketed around the world with development opportunities to ultimately provide oversight on projects and teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Provide phone support to health care professionals and consumers regarding adverse events, product quality complaints, medical inquiries, product support, and other needs as required. This does NOT include commercial sales support.
  • Receive, triage, review and process Lifecycle safety operational data. Perform data entry for tracking and Lifecycle safety databases, coding relevant medical terminology, writing descriptive narratives, generating queries pertinent to the case, performing quality control, assisting with reconciliation, driving case closure, coordinating translations.
  • Receive and document incoming telephone calls, faxes or emails from investigative sites or other sources reporting safety data.
  • Build a positive, collaborative team environment with Lifecycle safety team members, lead by example, provide training and mentoring for less experienced team members and operations staff, assist Operations with appropriate allocation of resource.
  • Establish and maintain effective team project service operations communications i.e. provide regular feedback to operations team manager and Customer Delivery manager (CDM) on project metrics, out of scope work challenges/issues and successes.
  • Liaise with Project Manager by proactively identifying issues and proposing solutions, providing them with technical support, reports, metrics, identifying SOW changes and potential change orders, delegating client requests.
  • Participate in training across Lifecycle safety process service offerings, participate in working groups as applicable in implementation of new initiatives, identification and implementation of process efficiencies.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

  • Life sciences and/or health knowledge with analytical skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal skills in  English and German language
  • Willingness and aptitude to learn new skills across our Lifecycle Safety service lines.
  • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy maintaining consistently high quality standards.
  • Excellent organizational skills and time management skills.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers and clients.
  • Ability to work effectively on multiple projects simultaneously, organize own workload and effectively manage competing priorities.

MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a Life Science is required. Experience in Lifecycle safety (Pharmacovigilance, CEVA, Medical Information, Safety Publishing, Risk Management etc) is an asset.
  • Fluency in English and German is essential

Join Us

Making a positive impact on human health takes insight, curiosity, and intellectual courage. It takes brave minds, pushing the boundaries to transform healthcare. Regardless of your role, you will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve outcomes for patients.

Forge a career with greater purpose, make an impact, and never stop learning.

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