Sr Manager, Global Library Service
Pubblicato il 25-10-2026 - ALFASIGMA in Torino
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Alfasigma is a privately held global healthcare company founded over 75 years ago in Italy, where it remains headquartered today in Bologna and Milan. The Group operates in over 100 markets spanning Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa.
Over three years ago, we embarked on a transformative journey to become a truly global innovative healthcare company with a leading focus on Gastrointestinal (GI) health. We have experienced remarkable growth, nearly doubled our revenues, expanding geographically, and integrating several key acquisitions. We have also evolved our portfolio, expanded into rare and specialty segments, and strengthened our pipeline and people's capabilities.
But our journey is far from complete
In this role as Senior Manager, you will serve as the organization’s subject-matter expert for licensed information resources, ensuring employees have timely, cost-effective, ethical and compliant access to the external information they need. You will oversee strategic vendor and portfolio management, budgets, information governance, advanced literature searching and stakeholder education, while ensuring the responsible and compliant use of AI in scientific research and information retrieval.
This position can be based in either the UK or the US.
Purpose of the Job
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- Serve as the organization’s senior subject-matter expert for licensed information resources and works closely with Procurement, Legal, Compliance, IT, R&D;, Medical Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Regulatory Affairs, Business Development, and other functions.
- Ensure that employees have timely, cost-effective, ethical, and compliant access to the external information required to support research & development, medical, regulatory, safety, any other relevant business stakeholders in business decision-making.
- Responsible for budget oversightstrategic vendor and portfolio management, research ethics, managing library contractors, information governance, advanced literature searching, and stakeholder education.
- Ensure responsible and compliant use of artificial intelligence in scientific research and information retrieval, including appropriate source verification, transparency, copyright compliance, confidentiality, and human oversight.
Principal Accountabilities
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- Lead negotiations and renewals for scientific journals, databases, literature platforms, competitive intelligence resources, document delivery services, and other licensed information products.
- Develop negotiation strategies based on utilization, business need, benchmarking, duplication, user demand, and total cost of ownership.
- Partner with Procurement and Legal teams to negotiate favorable pricing, licensing terms, access rights, permitted uses, AI-related contractual provisions, and data-use conditions.
- Maintain a strategic view of the information-resource portfolio and identify opportunities to consolidate, replace, expand, or discontinue resourcesto work within budget constraints
- Evaluate new products and vendors through structured demonstrations, trials, structured user feedback, competitive assessments, and cost-agevolazioni analyses.
- Monitor usage and expenditures and develop metrics demonstrating ROI, cost avoidance, efficiency gains, and organizational value.
- Serve as the primary relationship manager and escalation point for key information vendors.
Research Ethics/Integrity, Information Governance & Responsible use of AI
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- Serve as a corporate resource for ethical and responsible use of scientific information and AI-assisted research tools.
- Develop guidance for compliant use of semantic search, summarization, automated evidence retrieval, and other AI-enabled information tools.
- Promote a human-in-the-loop approach in which AI-generated results, summaries, references, and conclusions are appropriately verified against authoritative source material.
- In collaboration with Scientific Publication Leads educate users about risks, including predatory publishing and paper mills, fabricated citations, inaccurate summarization, loss of scientific context, algorithmic bias, inappropriate disclosure of confidential information, and overreliance on AI-generated output.
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, IT, Information Security, Privacy, and other relevant company stakeholders to establish appropriate governance for AI-enabled research tools.
- Advise employees regarding copyright, licensing restrictions, document sharing, reuse of figures and tables, text and data m