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Medical Information Specialist - Life Science Graduate

ProPharma · Raleigh, NC · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteHealthcareFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes description of company, role, essential functions (responsibilities), qualified candidates must have (requirements/qualifications/skills). No explicit benefits, pay, schedule. There's mention of hybrid working, after-hours coverage rotated basis, but not explicit schedule details. There's mention of "Provides after-hours coverage on a rotated basis subject to business requirements." That could be schedule info? But schedule section only if posting actually states them. It mentions after-hours coverage rotated basis, but not specific schedule like full-time, part-time, shift. Might be considered schedule info? The instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." The posting does mention after-hours coverage rotated basis, which is schedule-related. However it's vague. Might be considered schedule content. But we need to decide. The instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." If we include Schedule with just that line, it's thin. Might be better to omit Schedule because it's not explicit schedule like full-time/part-time. The posting also mentions hybrid working encouragement. That's about work location, not schedule. So we may omit Schedule, Benefits, Pay. Thus sections: About the role (company description and role purpose), Responsibilities (Essential Functions), Requirements (Qualified Candidates Must Have...), Skills (maybe combine with Requirements? But we need separate sections only if content. The posting lists many qualifications: life science degree, communication skills, etc. Could be split into Requirements (education, experience) and Skills (soft/technical). But we can also put all under Requirements. However instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe combine into one "Requirements" covering education, skills, abilities. But we have headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose to include About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (which includes qualifications and skills). Avoid thin sections. Thus output:

About the role

... company description and role purpose ...

Responsibilities

  • ... each essential function ...

Requirements

  • ... each qualification/skill ...
We must preserve all substantive information. Need to extract details. Let's parse the posting. Company description: "For the past 25 years, ProPharma has improved the health and wellness of patients by providing advice and expertise that empowers biotech, med device, and pharmaceutical organizations of all sizes to confidently advance scientific breakthroughs and introduce new therapies. ProPharma partners with its clients through an advise-build-operate model across the complete product lifecycle. With deep domain expertise in regulatory sciences, clinical research solutions, quality & compliance, pharmacovigilance, medical information, and R&D technology, ProPharma offers an end-to-end suite of fully customizable consulting solutions that de-risk and accelerate our partners’ most high-profile drug and device programs." Role description: "The Medical Information Specialist (MIS) position is part of the ProPharma Medical Information Contact Center and follows all corresponding regulations, industry standards, and client/internal policies regarding medical information and the collection and documentation of adverse events, special situation events, and product complaints." Essential Functions (list): - Medical Information service delivery - Responds to unsolicited consumer, health care professional and other external customer requests for medical and safety information received via telephone, website/e-mail, letter, fax, and scientific meetings on behalf of ProPharma’ s pharmaceutical clients. - Provides labeled and unlabeled medical/safety information responses in accordance with regulatory requirements, industry standards and client and ProPharma internal policies and practices. - Accurately identifies, documents and reports adverse events, pregnancy reports, special situation events and product complaints in a clear and concise manner per government regulations, ProPharma Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and client Working Practices (WPs). - Ensures tasks are completed within the deadlines documented in the agreed ProPharma SOPs and WPs. - Formulates and provides accurate responses utilizing approved labeling and company standard responses, published literature and other data. - Assists with writing custom medical information responses utilizing this data. - Logging all enquiries handled in an accurate, comprehensive, and timely fashion into Inquiry Handling Systems. - Quality Assurance - Maintains quality in all areas of the job, including performing quality checks on Adverse Events, Product Quality Complaints, correspondence, and enquiries logged into the Inquiry Handling Systems - General - Provides after-hours coverage on a rotated basis subject to business requirements. - Adheres to company and country-specific privacy policies, ensuring any confidential information or personal data related to ProPharma and its clients is managed in accordance with Data Privacy regulations described in ProPharma SOPs and the Confidentiality Statement within the Contract of Employment. - Complies with the Company’s health and safety policies. - Other activities as assigned as delegated by the Manager. Qualified Candidates Must Have: - Life science degree - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including proofreading, professional telephone etiquette and empathetic customer service skills. - Ability to write in a fluent and grammatically correct manner in the target language for the role English language proficiency. - Working knowledge of medical terminology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, regulations and industry standards. - Strong cognitive abilities, including verbal reasoning, critical thinking and analytical ability. - Ability to multitask with attention to detail within restrictive timeframes, including sound planning, prioritizing and organizational skills. - Proactive with demonstrative ability to independently identify problems and suggest effective solutions. - Ability to learn, take instruction and apply to daily operations/tasks. - Receptive to constructive feedback and able to take responsibility for work allocated. - Self-motivating. - Ability to demonstrate initiative and internal drive. - Willingness to seek out additional workload projects. - Effectively work independently and as part of a team. - Highly proficient in computer applications, including Microsoft Office software platforms and Adobe Acrobat, and experience using a document management system. - Aptitude to learn other computer systems including inquiry handling database. Then diversity statement etc (boilerplate) to remove. We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So remove the diversity statement, EEO, etc. Also remove the lines about "We celebrate our differences..." etc. Also remove the note about unsolicited resumes, phone calls, etc. Also remove the line about "All applications to roles at ProPharma are personally reviewed..." etc. Also remove the hybrid working encouragement? That's not boilerplate; it's about work arrangement. Might be considered relevant but not a section. Could be included in About the role or Responsibilities? It's about work arrangement. Could be placed in a short paragraph under About the role maybe. But we have no section for Work Arrangement. Could incorporate into About the role as a sentence. However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could add a sentence about hybrid working in About the role. But we must not invent or summarize away detail. We need to preserve all substantive information. The hybrid working statement: "Whilst ProPharma supports remote working, we also recognise the value that comes from in person collaboration. As such, we encourage any new hires that are based within a reasonably short commute of one of our offices to work on a hybrid basis and spend some time working from that office location, as agreed with your manager. All applications will be treated on their own merit and candidates will not be at any advantage or disadvantage based on their proximity to an office." This is substantive about work arrangement. Should we keep it? It's not covered by existing sections. Could be placed in About the role as a note. Or we could create a section "Work Arrangement" but not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings are limited to those list. We cannot create arbitrary headings; we must use those headings only. So we must fit it into one of those headings. Where does it fit? Possibly About the role (description of role). Or Responsibilities? Not really. Could be under Requirements? No. Could be under Skills? No. So we put it in About the role. Similarly, the after-hours coverage rotated basis is part of Responsibilities (General). Already captured. Now we need to output HTML fragment only. Let's craft About the role paragraph: Combine company description and role purpose plus hybrid working note. Paragraph: "For the past 25 years, ProPharma has improved the health and wellness of patients by providing advice and expertise that empowers biotech, med device, and pharmaceutical organizations of all sizes to confidently advance scientific breakthroughs and introduce new therapies. ProPharma partners with its clients through an advise-build-operate model across the complete product lifecycle. With deep domain expertise in regulatory sciences, clinical research solutions, quality & compliance, pharmacovigilance, medical information, and R&D technology, ProPharma offers an end-to-end suite of fully customizable consulting solutions that de-risk and accelerate our partners’ most high-profile drug and device programs. The Medical Information Specialist (MIS) position is part of the ProPharma Medical Information Contact Center and follows all corresponding regulations, industry standards, and client/internal policies regarding medical information and the collection and documentation of adverse events, special situation events, and product complaints. Whilst ProPharma supports remote working, we also recognise the value that comes from in person collaboration. As such, we encourage any new hires that are based within a reasonably short commute of one of our offices to work on a hybrid basis and spend some time working from that office location, as agreed with your manager. All applications will be treated on their own merit and candidates will not be at any advantage or disadvantage based on their proximity to an office." That seems to preserve all. Now Responsibilities: list each bullet as
  • . Need to capture all essential functions. Let's list them: - Responds to unsolicited consumer, health care professional and other external customer requests for medical and safety information received via telephone, website/e-mail, letter, fax, and scientific meetings on behalf of ProPharma’ s pharmaceutical clients. - Provides labeled and unlabeled medical/safety information responses in accordance with regulatory requirements, industry standards and client and ProPharma internal policies and practices. - Accurately identifies, documents and reports adverse events, pregnancy reports, special situation events and product complaints in a clear and concise manner per government regulations, ProPharma Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and client Working Practices (WPs). - Ensures tasks are completed within the deadlines documented in the agreed ProPharma SOPs and WPs. - Formulates and provides accurate responses utilizing approved labeling and company standard responses, published literature and other data. - Assists with writing custom medical information responses utilizing this data. - Logging all enquiries handled in an accurate, comprehensive, and timely fashion into Inquiry Handling Systems. - Maintains quality in all areas of the job, including performing quality checks on Adverse Events, Product Quality Complaints, correspondence, and enquiries logged into the Inquiry Handling Systems - Provides after-hours coverage on a rotated basis subject to business requirements. - Adheres to company and country-specific privacy policies, ensuring any confidential information or personal data related to ProPharma and its clients is managed in accordance with Data Privacy regulations described in ProPharma SOPs and the Confidentiality Statement within the Contract of Employment. - Complies with the Company’s health and safety policies. - Other activities as assigned as delegated by the Manager. Note: The "Medical Information service delivery" heading is not needed as separate; we just list items. Now Requirements: list all qualifications. - Life science degree - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including proofreading, professional telephone etiquette and empathetic customer service skills. - Ability to write in a fluent and grammatically correct manner in the target language for the role English language proficiency. - Working knowledge of medical terminology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, regulations and industry standards. -
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