Documentalist

Werfen is a growing, family-owned, innovative company founded in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain.

We are a worldwide leader in specialized diagnostics in the areas of Hemostasis, Acute Care Diagnostics, Transfusion, Autoimmunity, and Transplant. We operate directly in 30 countries, and in more than 100 territories through distributors.

Our Headquarters are in Barcelona, Spain and our Technology Centers are located in the United States and Europe. Worldwide sales exceeded €2.2 billion in 2024, and our workforce is more than 7,000 strong.

Job Summary

Direct responsibility for the management of IA (Immunoassay) Library, R&D, DHF electronic records system, and other IA R&D information systems.

Strong collaboration with other teams in the definition and development of several tools for knowledge and information management.

Key Accountabilities

Library management

• Maintain and constantly update the Library catalog (application design, record cataloguing, vocabulary control)

• Provide the document supply service

• Manage Information sources and journals subscriptions

• Evaluate new information sources to meet IA needs

• Train users on bibliographic databases

• Design and maintenance of the Current Awareness & Alerting Services

R&D record management

• Design and maintenance of records management electronic systems

• Provided expertise on best practices for record management and archiving

• Control of paper records

R&D Information management

• Improve, maintain and validate, processes and tools for information management

Networking/Key relationships

This position requires cooperation with different company departments and teams, especially R&D scientist and managers.

Minimum Knowledge & Experience required for the position:

Education:

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Information and Documentation or similar.

• Degree may be substituted by relevant skills and work experience

• Valuable:

  • Any additional degree higher than that required in the previous section

Experience:

• Valuable: Previous experience in a similar position in the industry.

• Valuable: previous scientific/in vitro diagnostic research experience.

Additional Skills/Knowledge:

• Deep knowledge of documental database management, Knowledge of Electronic Record Management, preferably ALFRESCO

• Experience customizing digitals tools, with Current Awareness & Alerting Services, information Retrieval and database interrogation.

• Knowledge of basic software tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). Knowledge of SAP preferred

• Language: Fluency in Spanish/Catalan. Fluency in English (reading, speaking and writing)

• Valuable: Knowledge of FDA electronic records requirements and Technology.

Skills & Capabilities:

• Ability to work with several projects at the same time

• Ability to work on short, medium and long term projects

• Ability to perform with minimum supervision

• Excellent predisposition to learn

• Proactivity

• Flexible and adaptable to fast changing environment

• Intellectual curiosity

• Capability to cooperate and interact with different background working teams

• Analytical mentality

• Synthesis capacity

• Perseverance and tenacity

• Oral and writing communication skills

Travel requirements:

NO