Beacon
Research Associate - Mandarin Speaking
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About the Company
Beacon is a competitive intelligence database that helps drug developers make better, faster decisions. We provide in-depth, high-quality, and timely information which allows our clients to identify and understand the drug and trial activity within their field.
About the Role
The Research Associate role is a critical support role in the Research Operations team and entails undertaking quality control of newly created or updated drug and clinical trial, deal and company records and providing feedback to relevant individuals; quality control of ingest processes; overseeing the creation of content such as weekly newsletters; responding to queries; and, assuming ownership of Beacon datasets when Researchers are absent from the team. For this role, we are looking for someone with an academic background in life sciences and/or drug development, and a curious, proactive nature to join the team. Fluent Mandarin language abilities are essential for the role.
Responsibilities
- Support the Chinese Language Team with triaging and curation of content in Mandarin.
- Undertake quality control of Beacon drug and trial records along with other tasks and projects to ensure the team meets its deliverables.
- Build a robust understanding of the policies and standard operating procedures regarding data capture and curation for Beacon, including relevant module-specific ones.
- Assist the Chinese Language Team with triaging and curation of content in Mandarin and support the wider Beacon Research Operations Team with translation tasks.
- Undertake both prospective and retrospective quality checking as required to ensure Beacon content achieves the highest possible levels of accuracy.
- Provide feedback, training and support to those performing the data capture processes as required.
- Collaborate with researchers and account managers to support sales opportunities.
- Stay up to date with the scientific and commercial developments in the field.
- Assist with the delivery of newsletters, digests and conference reports as required, meeting agreed timelines.
- Assist with relevant sales and customer queries as required, within agreed timelines.
- Actively seek ways to improve processes and increase efficiency within the team.
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- BSc in Life Sciences subject.
Required Skills
- Fluent Mandarin language abilities (reading, writing and speaking).
- Good knowledge of Excel.
- Good communication and collaboration skills, a strong team player.
- Proactive and inquisitive, willing to challenge the status quo and uncover new ways of doing things.
- Ability to work well under periods of pressure, being resilient and self-aware.
- Persistent and detail-oriented, able to maintain focus when undertaking quality control processes.
Preferred Skills
- Basic understanding of end-to-end drug development would be helpful but is not essential.
Pay range and compensation package
- Flexible hybrid working, with 1 mandatory day per week in the office (2 days per week encouraged). 2 days in the office per week for first 6 months (probation period).
- Type: Permanent.
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