Medical Information Specialist

**Location:Â Â Â**London (Hybrid, min. 2 days per week in the office)**

**Contract: Full time, Permanent**

**About Springer Nature Group**

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 175 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities '“ enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.

**About the Brand**

inScience Communications has over 40 years' experience in providing strategic and tactical medical communications services to the global pharmaceutical industry. Working in partnership with our valued clients, we deliver the highest quality of service and ethical content by drawing on the extensive talent and experience of our global team. We pride ourselves on ensuring each individual has the ability to contribute to our continuing expansion, providing the opportunity to progress their career and make a real difference to this dynamic agency.

inScience Communications is a medical communications agency with over 40 years of experience in the industry. We provide strategic and tactical global medical communications services to the pharmaceutical industry. We're part of Springer Healthcare, a leading global provider of clinical publications, scientific communications, and medical education.

We're looking for a proactive individual, keen to take on the integral role of Medical Information Specialist within our expanding operation in the UK, working with some of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical industry.

**About the role**

inScience Communications are looking for a Medical Information Specialist to be based at our King's Cross office in London, supporting the inScience Communications team. If you are seeking your next challenge, this is an exciting role that will allow you to continue developing your career in Medical Information (MI). You will be working with our pharma client to support the Therapy Area Managers with incoming MI enquiries, conducting literature searches and writing detailed global response documents. You will have the opportunity to work with, and obtain further development from senior members of our MI team.

**Responsibilities**
- Complete product and therapy area training; become familiar with the SmPCs for the product(s) assigned to; keep up-to-date on therapy area and product knowledge.
- Follow client instructions and processes for managing inquiries, and developing Global Response Documents (GRD) within the required timelines.
- Using systems to manage inquiries and all aspects of response document development and approvals
- Undertake appropriate literature searches (within PubMed; EMBASE; Google Scholar)
- Define the scope of the literature search and identify appropriate keywords accordingly to address the inquiry topic
- Critically evaluate literature search results
- Identify key references of relevance to the inquiry; where applicable, critically evaluate additional references cited within these key references
- Critically assess content of each reference to identify the key information and data of relevance to the inquiry
- Draft GRDs de novo, update expired documents in line with the latest version of the Style Guide and GRD template

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Degree in life science, pharmacy or proven equivalent experience
- Experience working in Medical Information
- Writing experience in a pharmaceutical/healthcare/med comms setting
- Ability to interpret and analyse clinical/scientific data
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- A strong commitment to providing high-level client service and delivering results
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel

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