alt-lib suggests: Philadelphia Regional Citation Specialist Job - PA, 19019
This is a position working in the JCR division of Thomson Scientific. Library Science background prefered! :-)
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alt-lib Suggests: User Interface (UI) Lead - Permanent Job - Wilmington DE, 19801
Wilmington User Interface (UI) Lead - Permanent Job - DE, 19801
Job Responsibilities:
- Researches, designs, and develops technical UI frameworks using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web development technologies - Leads adoption of and adherence to UI development defined standards and techniques - Supports and mentors UI Developers to share technical knowledge - Constructs templates and components to support next generation interactions as required (touch, tap, swipe, etc.) - Develops UI integration strategies for linking multiple websites and/or applications together - Helps translates interaction designs into technical framework implementations and documentation as required - Investigate and propose uses of new web technologies - Build and maintain close, positive working relationships with all stakeholder groups and internal customers - Build and maintain a comprehensive knowledge of business processes and technical systems - Demonstrate team leadership
Job Responsibilities:
- Researches, designs, and develops technical UI frameworks using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web development technologies - Leads adoption of and adherence to UI development defined standards and techniques - Supports and mentors UI Developers to share technical knowledge - Constructs templates and components to support next generation interactions as required (touch, tap, swipe, etc.) - Develops UI integration strategies for linking multiple websites and/or applications together - Helps translates interaction designs into technical framework implementations and documentation as required - Investigate and propose uses of new web technologies - Build and maintain close, positive working relationships with all stakeholder groups and internal customers - Build and maintain a comprehensive knowledge of business processes and technical systems - Demonstrate team leadership
alt-lib Suggests: Business Analyst Job - Wilmington DE, 19801
Business Process Modelling is a very interesting topic for someone with an IS background.
alt-lib Suggests: Project Coordinator Job - Wilmington DE, 19801
Good opportunity for recent MLS/MS LIS/ MS-IS grad:
Wilmington Project Coordinator Job - DE, 19801
Note: first line in the job advert is:
"Gathers technical information."
Kinda says it all...
alt-lib Suggests:Digital Research Analyst-Physical Sciences Job - Philadelphia PA, 19019
yowsie! this is a very interesting job:
Philadelphia Digital Research Analyst-Physical Sciences Job - PA, 19019
Digital Research Analyst-Physical Sciences Job
Date: Mar 29, 2012
Location: Philadelphia, PA, US
Title: Digital Research Analyst-Physical Sciences
ID: PUB00003776
Description
Digital Research Analyst-Physical Sciences
The Digital Research Analyst-Physical Sciences will be responsible for the identification and analysis of non traditional digital scholarly output (non-journal /book) in the physical sciences and related disciplines, which will be used in creating new content for inclusion in the Data Citation Index on Web of Knowledge. The individual will serve as an in-house editorial resource for digital research, with a major focus on collection development, analysis, cataloging, and content mapping/processing. The individual will assist in resource type identification, metadata processing/entry and the development and application of metadata standards. The individual may be required to serve on cross-functional committees, and be responsible for preparing policy documentation and presentations relating to scholarly digital research.
Responsibilities:
- To identify, evaluate, analyze, and process digital resources (including data sets, images, and videos etc.) to enhance Web of Knowledge, Scientific WebPlus and other web based browse/discovery offerings.
- To write technical specifications for data parsing and reformatting algorithms.
- To establish policies for digital content collection development in close liaison with the Editorial team, including the development of computer aided entity extraction and semantic analysis processes to gather metadata, and development of appropriate vocabularies, thesauri etc. as a categorization framework.
- To facilitate the development and application of metadata standards for resource type identification and metadata extraction.
- To liaise with digital content community and repositories to facilitate inclusion through obtaining linking permissions/APIs etc.
- To participate in digital content-related research and product development for Scientific WebPlus.
- To prepare documentation, reports and presentations.
- Up to 15% travel required for training and community liaison-some international
At Thomson Reuters, we deliver intelligent information quickly and efficiently, so professionals have knowledge to act. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and scientific, healthcare, and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
About the IP & Science Business of Thomson Reuters
The IP & Science business is a global provider of information solutions to assist professionals at every stage of research and development and ensure they maintain and extract maximum value from their intellectual assets.
IP & Science is part of Thomson Reuters (www.thomsonreuters.com), the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Scientific information solutions can be found at thomsonreuters.com.
Qualifications
Knowledge and Skills:
- Solid understanding of digital resources in the physical sciences, including astronomy/astrophysics, earth sciences, physics etc.
- Good understanding of databases, ability to interpret data structure from XML and other formats.
- Evidence of a good understanding of research workflows and use of online resources, tools and databases in physical sciences.
- Demonstrated ability to plan, initiate, and implement effective programs, projects, and services.
- Good organizational skills, cataloguing experience.
- Intermediate Experience in Microsoft Office applications and database applications.
- Awareness/understanding of electronic literature databases.
- A self-starter and good team player with the ability to work on own initiative.
- Well disciplined with regards policy, procedure and standards.
- Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, and oral/written communication skills.
- Able to set priorities and be flexible in a changing environment.
- A working knowledge of Microsoft office applications and relational databases.
Desired Skills:
- Some experience/knowledge of librarianship or information science would be an advantage.
- Ability to specify technical processes required to process data.
- Working knowledge of one or more major descriptive metadata standards (e.g., Dublin Core, SMIL, METS, XML, etc.).
- Familiarity with bibliographic policies and best practices.
- Some knowledge of relevant digital library standards, including EAD, TEI, SGML, HTML, XML.
- Knowledge of relevant Internet delivery technologies, including relational databases, TCP/IP, WEB 2.0 etc.
- Participation in or knowledge of key digital research initiatives in the life sciences and genomics at the regional, national, and international level.
Education:
- Bachelors degree in a scientific discipline (astronomy, physics, earthscience, astrophysics)
- Masters, PhD or suitable research experience in using digital resources in research work strongly desired.
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 55,000 colleagues in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the H-1B visa cap has been met for the 2012 fiscal year (October 1, 2011-September 30, 2012).
Job: Publishing/Editorial
Primary Location: US-PA-Philadelphia
Organization: Prof Science - ALL
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree (±16 years)
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
alt-lib Suggests:Director, Product Strategy Search & Discovery Job - Philadelphia PA, 19019
Again, including the full post below, to stimulate brainstorms of new job search strategies, even after this position has been filled:
Philadelphia Director, Product Strategy Search & Discovery Job - PA, 19019
Director, Product Strategy Search & Discovery Job
Date: Apr 1, 2012
Location: Philadelphia, PA, US
Title: Director, Product Strategy Search & Discovery
ID: PRO00006684
Description
Director, Product Strategy Search & Discovery
Main Purpose of Job:
The SSR business of IP & Science provides research and analytic solutions, including Web of Knowledge (WoK), the "gold standard" citation database and search platform, that help scientists and researchers find, analyze, and leverage authoritative scholarly content. Customers include universities, academic and governmental research institutions, scholars and researchers, publishers, and university faculty and administrators.
The Director Product Strategy, Search & Discovery is responsible for identifying the future roadmap of our Search & Discovery platform, balancing market opportunity and competitive risks. The primary responsibility is to understand the market and represent these market needs across the organization - typically in the form of product positioning, product features and high-level product requirements. The Director Product Strategy is accountable for product ROI and must coordinate a cross-functional team to identify specific investment prioritization recommendations which optimize limited resources to maximize revenue and customer satisfaction. The Director must understand the market which we serve, the competitive landscape and opportunities to move into new or adjacent markets.
The Director Product Strategy is responsible for existing and named new products within this classification. Current products most relevant to this description include Web of Knowledge. The term "product" includes solutions containing services as well as content and software wherever that product can be sold on a repeating basis
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Understand current users, buyers and evaluators to discover market problems and needs in order to translate implications to technical innovations that will grow market share.
2. Encourage sales, customer, prospect and user feedback. Establish a continuous dialogue with customers and other intelligence about the market segment.
3. Lead a team of Product Managers to deliver on the product roadmap and product development lifecycle.
4. Collaborate with technology and the business analyst team to ensure development is on-track, on-budget and is meeting the needs of the end-user population.
5. Understand and develop the distinctive competence of the organization's unique abilities to deliver value to the market in the context of industry trends and competitive landscape.
6. Illustrate, drive and own the vision and key phases of the product roadmap, ensuring prioritiztionn of product development investments, leveraging customer and user feedback and analysis to direct prioritisation of enhancements to support customer satisfaction, increased usage and other business goals.
7. Integrate products into a coherent portfolio of products focused on the market. Develop business plans, positioning documentation, buying process, market requirements and marketing plan in order to drive future investment decisions.
8. Work in collaboration with Strategic Marketing to develop go-to-market strategies to ensure customer acquisition, customer retention and product profitability.
9. Create product assessments and SWOT analysis relative to competitors and industry trends.
10. Own and develop the business plan articulating what was learned from the market and quantifying the risk, including a financial model.
11. Review or contribute to functional specification, requirements, prototypes and early product versions to ensure ability to meet market goals and obtain customer acceptance.
12. Assess outcome of new product releases and report to senior management.
13. Identify the most effective way to deliver a complete solution to meet the markets needs, including partnership opportunities and maintain effective relationships in order to drive future growth.
At Thomson Reuters, we deliver intelligent information quickly and efficiently, so professionals have knowledge to act. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and scientific, healthcare, and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
About the IP & Science Business of Thomson Reuters
The IP & Science business is a global provider of information solutions to assist professionals at every stage of research and development and ensure they maintain and extract maximum value from their intellectual assets.
IP & Science is part of Thomson Reuters (www.thomsonreuters.com), the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Scientific information solutions can be found at thomsonreuters.com.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities-Qualifications:
- Strong product strategy and commercialization skills (strategy and business skills).
- Ability to develop and lead a high-performing product management team (leadership and talent management).
- A thorough understanding of professional information needs, and the value drivers for end-users and purchasers.
- Experience in discovering unmet needs in a particular market and proposing innovative solutions, using Pragmatic Marketing or similar practices.
- Excellent consensus building and facilitation skills.
- Ability to collaborate in a matrixed environment.
- Significant experience in writing and presenting business plans in order to gain investment.
- Ability to prioritize and rationalize product investments in order to drive growth (analytical and financial skills).
- Strong financial and business acumen (business and financial skills).
- Experience in driving and monitoring commercial success of a new product or product release.
- Excellent customer facing skills, ensuring they are at the heart of everything' we do.
- Excellent team player.
- Well organized and disciplined with regards to policy, procedures and standards.
- Customer insight acquisition, interpretation and application.
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 55,000 colleagues in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the H-1B visa cap has been met for the 2012 fiscal year (October 1, 2011-September 30, 2012).
Job: Product Management
Primary Location: US-PA-Philadelphia
Organization: Prof Science - ALL
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
alt-lib Suggests: Product Manager, Web of Knowledge Job - Philadelphia PA, 19019
For this one, I am pasting the job posting below, as a demonstration/example of the sort of position to look for:
Philadelphia Product Manager, Web of Knowledge Job - PA, 19019
Product Manager, Web of Knowledge Job
Date: Apr 2, 2012
Location: Philadelphia, PA, US
Title: Product Manager, Web of Knowledge
ID: PRO00006510
Description
Manager, Platform Production
Main Purpose of Job:
The Scientific & Scholarly Research business of IP & Science provides research and analytic solutions, including Web of Knowledge (WoK), the "gold standard" citation database and search platform, that help scientists and researchers find, analyze, and leverage authoritative scholarly content. Customers include universities, academic and governmental research institutions, scholars and researchers, publishers, and university faculty and administrators.
The Product Manager is responsible for identifying the future roadmap of our Search & Discovery platform, balancing market opportunity and competitive risks. The primary responsibility is to understand the market and represent these market needs across the organization - typically in the form of product positioning, product features and high-level product requirements. The Product Manager is accountable for product ROI and must coordinate a cross-functional team to identify specific investment prioritization recommendations which optimize limited resources to maximize revenue and customer satisfaction. A Product Manager is generally responsible for a functional area over a lifecycle, including recommendations for new products as well as sunset of existing products.
The Product Manager is responsible for existing and named new products within this classification. The term "product" includes solutions containing services as well as content and software wherever that product can be sold on a repeating basis
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Understand current users, buyers and evaluators to discover market problems and needs in order to translate implications to technical innovations that will grow market share.
2. Encourage sales, customer, prospect and user feedback. Establish a continuous dialogue with customers and other intelligence about the market segment.
3. Understand and develop the distinctive competence of the organisations unique abilities to deliver value to the market in the context of industry trends and competitive landscape.
4. Illustrate, drive and own the vision and key phases of the product roadmap, ensuring prioritisation of product development investments, leveraging customer and user feedback and analysis to direct prioritisation of enhancements to support customer satisfaction, increased usage and other business goals.
5. Integrate products into a coherent portfolio of products focused on the market. Develop business plans, positioning documentation, buying process, market requirements and marketing plan in order to drive future investment decisions.
6. Work in collaboration with Strategic Marketing to develop go-to-market strategies to ensure customer acquisition, customer retention and product profitability.
7. Create product assessments and SWOT analysis relative to competitors and industry trends.
8. Own and develop the business plan articulating what was learned from the market and quantifying the risk, including a financial model.
9. Review or contribute to functional specification, requirements, prototypes and early product versions to ensure ability to meet market goals and obtain customer acceptance.
10. Assess outcome of new product releases and report to senior management.
11. Identify the most effective way to deliver a complete solution to meet the markets needs, including partnership opportunities and maintain effective relationships in order to drive future growth.
At Thomson Reuters, we deliver intelligent information quickly and efficiently, so professionals have knowledge to act. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and scientific, healthcare, and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
About the IP & Science Business of Thomson Reuters
The IP & Science business is a global provider of information solutions to assist professionals at every stage of research and development and ensure they maintain and extract maximum value from their intellectual assets.
IP & Science is part of Thomson Reuters (www.thomsonreuters.com), the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Scientific information solutions can be found at thomsonreuters.com.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
- Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 3 years professional work experience in a business to business product environment.
- A strong technical background and experience in working with technology.
- A strong understanding of professional information needs, and the value drivers for end-users and purchasers.
- Experience in discovering unmet needs in a particular market and proposing innovative solutions, using pragmatic marketing or similar practices.
- Excellent consensus building and facilitation skills.
- Ability to collaborate in a matrixed environment.
- Significant experience in writing and presenting business plans in order to gain investment.
- Ability to prioritize and rationalize product investments in order to drive growth.
- Strong financial and business acumen.
- Experience in driving and monitoring commercial success of a new product or product release.
- Excellent customer facing skills, ensuring they are 'at the heart of everything' we do.
- Excellent team player.
- Well organized and disciplined with regards to policy, procedures and standards.
alt-lib Suggests: Client Services Coordinator Job - PA,King of Prussia 19406
Interesting- this one is perhaps a bit more attainable:
King of Prussia Client Services Coordinator Job - PA, 19406
King of Prussia Client Services Coordinator Job - PA, 19406
alt-lib Suggests: Director, Client Services Job - PA, King of Prussia 19406
One month later, and this position has been posted again:
King of Prussia Director, Client Services Job - PA, 19406
Thursday, March 15, 2012
alt-lib Suggests: Project Manager Job -Philadelphia PA, 19019
This among many things, catches my eye in this job post: "Ability to assist in compiling and analyzing information":
alt-lib Suggests: Strategic Account Manager Job - Philadelphia PA, 19019
Note, Masters' level education preferred: Philadelphia Strategic Account Manager Job - PA, 19019
alt-lib Suggests: Senior Pharmacy Benefit Consultant Job - King of Prussia PA, 19406
It's research, presenting information, project management, and pharma/healthcare:
King of Prussia Senior Pharmacy Benefit Consultant Job - PA, 19406
Saturday, March 10, 2012
alt-lib Suggests: Business Analyst - Financial Job - King of Prussia PA, 19406
This very interesting position would be appropriate for candidates with Systems Librarian experience: King of Prussia Business Analyst - Financial Job - PA, 19406
alt-lib Suggests: Human Resources Specialist - Level I Job (contract) - Camden NJ, 08101
Anyone with a Reference librarian background or a recent grad with general focus on Reference would be appropriate for this position: Camden Human Resources Specialist - Level I Job - NJ, 08101
alt-lib Suggests: Technical Support / Help Desk Specialists - Permanent Job - Philadelphia PA, 19019
The emphasis on database support, along with customer service, makes this one especially appropriate. Also good opportunity for a recent grad. Note the position is an 'escalation point.' So, having masters' level education is very beneficial as an applicant for the position.
Philadelphia Technical Support / Help Desk Specialists - Permanent Job - PA, 19019
alt-lib Suggests: Virtual Recruitment and Social Media Coordinator Job - Philadelphia PA, 19019
Good post for a recent MSLIS grad.
They need a librarian.. they just don't know it..
Philadelphia Virtual Recruitment and Social Media Coordinator Job - PA, 19019
alt-lib Suggests: Project Manager Job - Wilmington DE, 19801
Are you a Project Manager with "Strong customer interaction skills"?? Of course you are.. you're a librarian!
Good post here for folks with mid-career years of experience. If you come from a pharma background, that's even better: Wilmington Project Manager Job - DE, 19801
Good post here for folks with mid-career years of experience. If you come from a pharma background, that's even better: Wilmington Project Manager Job - DE, 19801
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