Assistant Manager - Secondary Research - Healthcare/Pharma Domain

Role and Responsibilities

Research Delivery

The primary role of Assistant manager is to deliver professional and insightful research reports. This would involve:

- Client Management: understanding briefs from clients, clarifying doubts, agreeing on scope of work and managing client expectations to ensure complete satisfaction

- Research Design: design research approach / storyboard to meet the client expectations within the specified deadline

- Conduct Research: conduct research to the scope of work using secondary sources and if required primary means

- Team Management: While the assistant manager is expected to carry out his/her work, he/she might also be expected to lead or mentor research analysts to deliver assignments/projects on a need to need basis

Types of Work

Although we work also varied types of assignment, some typical ones could include:

Market and Industry Analysis:

- A typical market and industry analysis work will involve assessing the market potential in terms of size and growth, analysis of various trends within the market/industry, drivers and challenges, potential opportunities etc.

Company / Account Intelligence & Analysis

- A typical company / account intelligence work will involve presenting facts and figures about a company's structure, business segments, financials, competitors, future strategies etc.

Competitor Intelligence & Analysis

- A typical competitor intelligence work will involve benchmarking a company against its competitors against various parameters such as financial performance, services, clients, analyst opinion etc.

Desired Skills and Experience

Knowledge

- Should posses sound knowledge of healthcare and pharma domain.

- Should possess sound knowledge of tools and techniques on how a market research should be conducted

- Should possess sound knowledge of conducting Market and Industry Analysis, Company/Account Intelligence & Analysis, Competitor Intelligence & Analysis, Market Sizing, Creation of business databases etc.

- Strong working knowledge in MS Office 2007 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

- Good knowledge of working with professional database/information aggregators such as Factiva, onesource, Reuters, IMS knowledge, Decision Resources Hoovers, LexisNexis etc.

- Candidates with good working knowledge in analytical frameworks such SWOT, BCG Matrix, Value-chain analysis, 3C model, Time-Series Model etc. are preferred.

Skills

- Should possess excellent secondary research skills.

- Should possess good presentation skills with the use of innovative frameworks to present the research findings/output in a professional manner

- Should be able to think analytically in order to:

- Effectively assess each research requirement from clients

- To draw clear and concise conclusions from the research work to be presented to various executive leaders across the client teams.

- Good communication and interpersonal skills

- Ability to lead from the front as and when required

- Should be an excellent team player and must be comfortable working with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds

- Good project management skills

Experience

- 1-3 years of business research experience

Education

- Full-time M. Pharm or MBA with Life science background from a reputed institute is mandatory