External Information Solutions Lead

Location: Slough (Hybrid) or Remote

Employer: Successful pharmaceutical company

A great opportunity to join a scientific information and intelligence team, helping shape and deliver a data marketplace that supports digital workflows, external information access, and AI-driven science.

What you'll do:

  • Drive the vision and roadmap for the data marketplace, ensuring it supports research and wider business needs.
  • Work across teams to deliver enterprise data initiatives, applying modern data principles.
  • Build and maintain high-quality external information datasets that are easy to find, use, and re-use.
  • Engage closely with scientific and business teams to understand workflows and improve access to external information.
  • Champion data quality and interoperability to support analytics and AI adoption.
  • Partner with AI, data engineering, governance, and quality teams to align standards, models, and onboarding materials.
  • Represent the data marketplace through presentations, training, and stakeholder sessions.

What you'll bring:

  • Experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry
  • Strong foundation in information science, metadata, ontologies, and FAIR data principles.
  • Experience in product management and agile environments.
  • Awareness of emerging tech, including agentic AI and LLMs.
  • A collaborative style with confident communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

If you enjoy shaping data products, enabling scientific teams, and working at the intersection of information, technology, and research, this is a brilliant contract to consider.

This role is offered on an intial 12 month contract.

Keywords: information science, data management, pharmaceutical, clinical trials, market intelligence, competitive intelligence, drug pipeline, product launch, metadata, AI, artificial intelligence, machine learning, LLMs, Slough, United Kingdom

Job Details

Company
VRS Recruitment
Location
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted