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Paid Summer Intern, Information Resource Center (IRC), Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Princeton, NJ OR Rockville, MD

Description:

The IRC is Otsuka’s corporate intelligence team, providing timely, value-added intelligence and information services to enable effective business decisions in global drug development and commercialization.

We deliver competitive intelligence, clinical trials intelligence, market research, annual sales data/forecasts, biomedical literature, pipeline and marketed drug information, regulatory intelligence, and more to our colleagues across Otsuka worldwide.

The intern will have the following responsibilities:

  • Respond to global information/intelligence requests to support business decisions
    • Become proficient with scientific and business information research
    • Develop capability in providing user support for RightFind (Otsuka’s global article ordering system)
    • Support user registration for IRC’s pharma and business intelligence alerts
  • Support IRC’s global outreach program
    • Support global database training operations to increase ROI
    • Assist in hosting database training sessions for Otsuka colleagues
    • Promote IRC services to new Otsuka hires
  • Contribute to annual global online content renewals
    • Obtain and analyze usage metrics for various journal subscriptions and global article ordering system
    • Coordinate communications with suppliers to prepare for annual renewals

The intern will complete two projects in support of our department goals:  

  • Complete analysis of global journal and literature ordering system usage to inform annual journal renewal decisions.
  • Successfully create deliverables for 2 complex intelligence requests utilizing Otsuka’s licensed information resources.

How to apply:

To view the full job description and apply, visit: https://vhr-otsuka.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Princeton/Intern-The-Otsuka-Way-Information-Resource-Center–IRC-_R1749