Terminology Specialist
- Application Deadline: May 23, 2024
- Uppsala
- Hybrid
Would you like to contribute to the safer use of medicines and vaccines for everyone everywhere? We are looking for a Terminology Specialist to join our expanding Drug Dictionary Management team within the Portfolio and Product Management department at UMC.
As part of the Drug Dictionary Management Team, you will help ensure the highest quality standards to comply with regulations, meet customer expectations, and deliver efficient and orderly information management. This dedicated and energetic team consists of health professionals with advanced pharmacy education who work closely with colleagues in the Product Management section to support the development and maintenance of WHODrug. The team is also involved in developing processes and systems regarding the standardisation of the identification of medicinal products. Partaking in outreach activities, such as webinars and WHODrug-related presentations, are also among the collective duties of the team.
Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) is an independent, non-profit foundation and international centre for medicine safety and scientific research UMC is a World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre and oversees the technical and scientific operations of the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring covering more than 95% of the world’s population. The organisation is custodian of VigiBase, which is the largest global database of suspected adverse events of medicines and vaccines. In addition to working with drug safety signal monitoring, UMC has developed WHODrug Global, which is the world’s most widely used drug dictionary, and is advancing pharmacovigilance through science and innovation and education and communication. UMC is governed by a board consisting of members from the Swedish government and WHO and has approximately 150 employees based in Uppsala (Sweden).
What you will do
- Validate and classify drug information to ensure the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of data to meet the expected quality standards for WHODrug Coding of reported drugs in individual case safety reports and in clinical trials.
- Support WHODrug users with customer requests.
- Manual coding of ICSR (Individual case safety reports).
- Take part in workflow improvements.
Further on in your employment you will get the opportunity to take on other responsibilities such as participate in the maintenance of additional WHODrug related products, another aspect of the team´s responsibilities.
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
Who you are
Ideally you hold a Master of Science in Pharmacy, boast a broad knowledge of medicinal products, and have excellent written and oral skills in English.
It is an advantage if you also have:
- Knowledge of WHODrug and classification of medical products, including ATC classification.
- Understanding of good coding practices and knowledge of pharmacology.
- Experience from the field of pharmacovigilance, product information, or a regulatory agency.
- Knowledge of herbal medicine.
- Good command of spoken and written Swedish.
- Good knowledge of Spanish or other languages.
As a person you:
- Are self-driven and can work independently according to our operational framework.
- Understand users’ needs and anticipate how their expectations may impact our products.
- Are detail-oriented and can critically review, classify, and sort medicinal information.
- Contribute to a creative and positive working environment.
- Are helpful, willing to share knowledge, and collaborate with team members and other staff at UMC.
- Possess professional communication skills, both by phone and email.
- Can prioritise tasks and projects according to workloads and deadlines.
Great Place to Work
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Real-world impact – Working for the greater good
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Learning organisation – Skilled and curious staff
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Flexible work hours – Allows us to be at our best
About the company
Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) is a centre for international service and scientific research in the field of pharmacovigilance. We are the WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring, and manage the technical and operational aspects of the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring since 1978.
As an independent, non-profit foundation, we support the World Health Organization, regulatory authorities, and other stakeholders who share our vision of advancing medicines safety. Through research and development of new scientific methods, we explore the benefits and harms of medicines for patients, and offer products and services used by health authorities and the pharmaceutical industry worldwide
UMC’s working language is English. We normally apply a probationary period to new appointments.
UMC follows the collective agreements between the Swedish Agency for Government Employers and Saco-S and ST. Union representatives are Malin Zaar (Saco-S) and Jessica Avasol (ST), +46 (0)18-65 60 60.
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