Information Specialist

The Role Under the supervision of senior colleagues, the Information Specialist is pivotal in shaping our information strategy, designing and implementing project plans and solutions. Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities Leadership and Strategy: Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills. Provide supervision and mentorship to Junior Information Specialists, fostering a culture of growth and excellence. Support defining, prioritising and executing the BDI strategy in alignment with the company's goals and mission. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for data-driven insights across research, development, and commercialisation. Communicate evolving BDI strategies and outcomes clearly to stakeholders, ensuring a shared understanding. Establish and enforce standard practices around delivery processes with version and change control. Stay current with emerging trends, techniques, and technologies in information services to drive innovation within the company. Day to day: With limited support from senior team members, be a point of contact for specific project deliverables, managing the operational and scientific aspects of those deliverables. With limited support of senior team members take responsibility for managing the delivery of specific deliverables and ensure the development of clear, accurate, grammatically correct written work to meet the project/client brief, timelines and budget. Develop a working knowledge of processes applied by Bioscript Data Insights and the broader organisation and use these to take documents from inception to sign-off as efficiently as possible while ensuring high quality. Support the Project Management by monitoring the progress of all assigned projects against the agreed schedule and budget specification; advise senior team members of any necessary changes to the project specification/budget. Proactively share ongoing training and development as appropriate, to support transfer of knowledge across the team. Utilise project management skills in order to manage competing projects. Take responsibility for ensuring optimum use of own time managing capacity or bottlenecks across the team so that resources can be allocated most efficiently. Actively identify potential new projects, thus contributing to organic business growth. Contribute to new business activities to support the future growth of Bioscript Data Insights Demonstrate familiarity with and understanding of industry guidelines, codes of practice and legislation Ensure adherence to agreed client/Bioscript standard operation procedures. About you Ph.D. or master’s degree in library/information services/management or equivalent experience Proven track record of delivering library service projects Strong expertise in systematic literature reviews, key external expert identification, congress or other library services. Proficiency in developing and executing search strategies across deliverables Familiarity with best in class databases including PubMed, Clinicaltrials.gov and paid databases. Familiarity with biological and clinical data types and their challenges Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills. Company standards Promote Bioscript’s mission and vision; and live the company values in all that you do Conduct oneself in accordance with Bioscript’s Code of Conduct as laid out in the Employee Handbook To encourage flexibility within the company, from time to time you may be required to perform other duties/tasks as may reasonably be required. Bioscript values We strive for excellence We connect authentically We are enthusiastically curious We own the work We do it for patients For more information on working at Bioscript Group please visit Careers at Bioscript Group | Medical Communications Jobs Please note, we are not looking to engage with recruitment agencies on this role, any candidate CVs sent via an agency will not be considered.