Scientific Information Specialist Pharma Pendium (OPE000ET) Job in Amsterdam , Netherlands

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Elsevier serves more than 30 million scientists, students, health and information professionals worldwide. Elsevier Information Systems, as a 100% subsidiary of Elsevier, is the recognized leader in discovery informatics for the Life Science and chemical industry sectors.

Scientific Information Specialist Pharma Pendium (OPE000ET) Job Description

Description   

Elsevier Science’s Operations produces various scientific databases, such as Embase, PharmaPendium and Reaxys. Indexing and excerption of data add value to these bibliographic and factual databases, such that a more efficient and consistent retrieval of the desired information is possible. The Content Quality Management Department, as part of the Content Enrichment Center within Elsevier Operations, is responsible for the quality of the indexes of the databases. These indexes can be generated automatically or manually.
 
As a customer-focused company, Elsevier recognizes that its customers and business partners are embracing new technologies and that communication touch points are changing. Elsevier wishes to support this by developing its next generation content capabilities, called Smart Content.
Smart Content is content enhanced to be fit-to-purpose. In other words, content is organized and structured for customer tasks & needs, is suitable for in-depth analytics  and is enhanced with additional semantic data.The Content Quality Management Department is involved in development of the next generation content capabilities.
 
A vacancy has arisen in the Content Quality Management Department in Amsterdam for an information specialist who will be involved in assessing and guiding the improvement of text extraction and indexing done by external and internal suppliers (both manual and automatic) and who will be involved in Smart Content Development. Successful candidates will have a degree in sciences, are fluent in English, have good communication skills, and have affinity with indexing and taxonomies.
 
Key Result Areas

Ensure high-quality delivery of both manually and automatically indexed materials and actively participate in the development of Smart Content.    

Scientific Information Specialist Pharma Pendium (OPE000ET) Job Requirements

Qualifications  

• MSc or higher in relevant sciences (e.g. pharmacy, (bio)chemistry, biology, (bio)medicine)
• Concern for high levels of accuracy and quality
• Eye for detail and systematic work approach
• Cooperative, service-minded and pro-active approach to working with colleagues inside and outside the department
• Good communication skills
• Fluency in English, especially written
• Passion about technology and content

• At least five years of work experience in a related field
• A good understanding of pharmacology
• A decent understanding of synthetic chemistry or medicinal chemistry and chemical organization management
• A decent understanding of database creation and database organization
• Experience in text mining, semantic technologies and content enhancement tools
• Working experience with standard medical vocabularies, search engines, thesauri, and related entities
• Familiarity with basic functionality of automated tagging software

• EU workpermit required
• there is not a relocation package available
• Agencies are requested not to acquire

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