The Research Alliance Development Office is opening an exciting opportunity in Client Research that involves working with some of the leading scientists and clinicians around the world who are engaged with us to uncover and develop Client treatments for life threatening diseases such as cancer and autoimmunity. The team provides broad support to Client scientists, discovery, and development teams to enable collaboration with research institutes worldwide to advance our drug discovery, translational development, and corporate objectives. The Alliance Development Office is the administrative group responsible for -
1. Accelerating and simplify pre-clinical alliance processes
2. Coordinating and managing the external research agenda consistent with corporate objectives
3. Providing a transparent process in concert with a database portal accessible across the organization
4. Support internal functions: Drug Discovery, Translational Development, Clinical Research and Medical Affairs, Legal, Commercial, Project Leadership, and Business Development with academic and business to business preclinical alliances.
Responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
Quality Control/Assurance: interface with research leaders, project teams and across divisions to ensure that scientific content, administrative content, application features, and dashboards are accurate and functioning properly within the alliance web portal. Ensures sufficient infrastructure to support quality initiatives and would assist with data transfer between systems.
Reporting: supports alliance office and research division through data aggregation, reporting on study disease aims/classifications, oncology and inflammation target research, compound library outsourcing, biomarker research, financial figures, study milestones, and other metric fields as determined. Ability to analyze data and formulate solutions and conclusions. This includes data entry to existing reporting templates and data collection.
Portal Gatekeeper: Archives research proposals and materials by reviewing and creating records in the Alliance Portal system. Collaborates with the associate coordinator in the development and improvement of the Alliance Portal system. Assists in user registration and internal training programs. Skill in providing necessary end user support and training of portal usage working alongside the associate coordinator for assistance
Intranet: Manage department website for internal affairs and operations. Maintain and upkeep current department news for corporate showcasing.
Internal and External Publication Clearances: Supports Drug Discovery, Translational Development, and Medical Affairs by coordinating publication clearances through Phase IIa clinical trials. This includes outreach to internal and external collaborators for their input. Assists with data entry for the Associate Project Manager, back-up for publication routing and tracking/repository upkeep assistance for publication documentation.
Data Entry Responsibilities: Transfer data from paper formats, computer files, database systems to other systems in use. Type data accurately from these formats from internal and external collaborators. Retrieve any data from the database or electronic files as requested. Ensure data is sorted and organized so tracking and repository keeping is accurate and up to speed.
Knowledge and Skills
Capable of understanding verbal and written instructions pertaining to Research Alliance activities and assigned functions
Facilitate clear and effective communications with foreign and domestic points of contact. Clearly communicates between internal and external collaborators of the team.
Capable of carrying out assigned functions according to detailed procedures and methods in a high-quality, reliable manner; results driven
Experience in clear and accurate data entry
Knowledge of scientific, medical, and pharmaceutical terminology
Experience in document or records management processing
Preferred experience in Oracle, Salesforce, SharePoint, Veeva, and other systems; ability to learn new applications
Proficient in MS Office Programs (Excel, Power Point, Word, Access)
Experience with business administration and web-based operating systems
Position Requirements
Education: BS degree, or equivalent experience
Experience:Candidate should demonstrate motivation to independently increase skills and knowledge. Candidate must have the ability to work with minimal supervision, capable of applying new knowledge to business practices and demonstrate a thorough understanding of the science involved.
Preferred:1-2 years of industry experience