Senior Data Discovery and Enrichment Expert II

Would you like to be part of a passionate team and create innovative products for Life Science? 

Would you like to join our growing team? 

About Elsevier 

We are proud to help research and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes by combining quality information and data sets with analytical tools to facilitate insights and critical decisions. 

We help researchers share knowledge, collaborate and make discoveries. We deliver insights that help universities, research institutions, governments and funders achieve strategic goals. We help doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients, providing tools to find the right clinical answers. We support R&D-intensive corporations with data-led insights that drive innovation. 

Our commitment to customers involves delivering top-quality data through extraction, enrichment, and enhancement. We connect them to this data via cutting-edge interfaces powered by state-of-the-art technology. 

About our Team 

• Our Data Science Life Science team is focused on developing and evolving data enrichment capabilities. 

• We are optimizing search and discovery for enriched data on Elsevier’s Life Sciences products. 

• We are a very diverse team, engaged and inclusive, working in an agile way. 

• We support the development of one of Elsevier’s flagship products Embase, a biomedical bibliographic database that allows our customers to find the right information to make the right decisions. It is for example used to conduct systematic literature reviews, screen for adverse drug events and comply with regulations.   

About the Role 

• Together with your colleagues you will develop the Embase taxonomy (Emtree) that is used for enrichment of literature and user search queries. It is an essential step to make sure that millions of biomedical literature records can be searched and found by our users. 

• As a team member, you’ll collaborate closely with others, each bringing their unique domain expertise. Our goal is to meet our customers’ needs effectively. Our team specializes in areas related to the main branches of the Emtree taxonomy, including drugs, medical devices, and diseases.  

• You will be a key part of our agile team to support all activities around data enrichment, maintenance and innovative development. 

• You will work with other Data Discovery and Enrichment Experts to secure our high-quality standards. 

• You will work closely with the experts in our larger Data Science Life Sciences team. 

Responsibilities: 

• Curate and update our disease taxonomy for use across Elsevier life science products. 

• Assist with content enrichment tasks, including creating reference sets and maintaining dictionaries. 

• Conduct quality assurance on biology datasets in the life science domain. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute projects, leveraging domain expertise. 

Key skills: 

• Hold a medical degree or a life sciences degree with knowledge on pathology/anatomy. 

• Preferably have (user) experience with life science (bibliographic) databases or information systems. 

• Detail-oriented professional committed to maintaining high data quality standards. 

• Demonstrate project contribution skills and the ability to meet deadlines. 

• Be an effective communicator, capable of building relationships with cross-functional teams. 

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working remotely from home
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day

Working with us

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.

Working for you

At Elsevier, we know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days

• Health care insurance

• Working remotely with a home set-up allowance

• Wellbeing programs

• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme

• Development days to further your learning and growth

• Long service awards

• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you

• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer

• Access to extensive learning and development resources

About Us

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

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PURPOSEFUL WORK
When you work with us, your work matters. You are part of an organization that nurtures your curiosity to stimulate innovation for the communities that we serve.

GROWING EVERY DAY
Like the communities we serve, you are on a constant path of discovery to shape your career and personal development.

COLLEAGUES WHO CARE
You will be part of the Elsevier family. We will support your well-being and provide the flexibility you need to thrive at work and home.

Together, we create possibilities.
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