Information Research Specialist, Parexel, Waltham, MA
Posted September 9, 2016
Amazing opportunity to use your Master’s Degree in Library/Information Sciences working for a Global Leader in the CRO Industry! Don’t miss this chance to bring your experience to PAREXEL and enhance your skills, grow professionally, and work with a tight knit highly experienced and committed team in our Corporate Global Headquarters.
The Information Research Specialist creates and manages current awareness services, including journal TOC services.
- Maintains Library’s collection of journals and subscriptions, including journal tracking and filing
- Handles document delivery
- Manages vendor invoice payment process (via Oracle), and project and departmental expenditure tracking activities
- Maintains departmental Sharepoint sites
- Develops proactive services as needed
- Assists in PIRLS training and marketing programs as needed
- Provides backup to Manager and Senior Information Research Specialists
- Responds to information requests from all employees, on a variety of subjects, using online databases and other subscription resources for literature searching
- Supports Manager and Senior Information Research Specialists on complex research projects and knowledge management activities.
Experience
1-3 years of experience in corporate, pharmaceutical, healthcare industry or medical library. Microsoft Office literacy.
Skills
- Able to work in dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Energetic, creative, proactive, motivated, flexible individual with ability to multi-task, good reference-interviewing, interpersonal, critical thinking, organizational, and excellent oral and written communication skills
- Must have customer-service focus
- Confidence and credibility in relationship-building with internal customers at all levels and external vendors
- Experience with Sharepoint preferred
- Experience and ability to perform in-depth medical, drug, competitive, regulatory and business literature searching using Dialog, pharmaceutical pipeline databases (Pharmaprojects, IMS, Adis, etc.), and web-based resources preferred.
Education
- Master’s Degree in Library/Information Sciences from an ALA (American Library Association) accredited program
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