Life Science Specialist

About the role

Patsnap is hiring a Life Science specialist in Singapore. The role covers monitoring company pipelines, development stages, program changes and key milestones, and keeping structured records of approvals and regulatory information across several countries.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor company pipelines, development stages, program changes and key milestones, and complete regular updates and monthly checks.
• Maintain approval information for China and Japan and special-review information across China, the US, Europe, Japan and Australia, recording sources, dates and verification results.
• Identify drug and program developments through news, public databases and regulatory sources, extracting relevant facts and maintaining structured records.
• Compare third-party information, identify conflicts, gaps and anomalies, verify evidence and escalate issues requiring domain judgment.
• Use AI for research, extraction, normalization, summarization and comparison, and maintain reusable prompts, field rules, Skills or workflows.
• Maintain source entry points, operating instructions, exception examples and open-item lists, supporting team review and delivery acceptance.

Required profile

• Undergraduate degree in pharmacy, life sciences, medicine, information science, data analysis or a related field; Master's degrees are strongly preferred.
• Ability to verify AI outputs, identify hallucinations, omissions and source mismatches, and retain evidence links.
• Ability to break recurring tasks into clear steps, define inputs, outputs and review points, and improve AI use based on results.
• Verbal and written Chinese to collaborate with China-based colleagues, and the ability to read Chinese and English public sources accurately.
• Attention to detail, reliability and proactive communication.

Required skills

• Practical AI application skills: using mainstream AI tools for research, extraction, organization or analysis, writing clear prompts and providing context.
• Proficiency with Excel or similar data tools.
• Preferred: exposure to drug databases, pipeline tracking, pharmaceutical news monitoring, regulatory research or third-party data validation.
• Preferred: experience with basic queries, scripting or automation and an interest in building reusable workflows.