Associate Consultant - Pharma/Healthcare/Life Sciences

Individual contributor actively collaborates with cross-functional, multi-shore teams to deliver advanced consulting projects. The said role involves active learning, information/data sourcing, pro-active communication, data analysis, synthesis, problem solving, insight generation, reporting, quality assurance, and documentation.

- Carry out work relating to the Consulting business area which meets or exceeds Consulting Services (CS) stakeholder expectations

- Extract and analyze data and public data sources

- Conduct secondary desk research and data analysis

- Typical CS projects include Go-to-Market, due-diligence, portfolio/market assessment, patient journey, forecasting/analogue analysis, market access engagements

- Work with minimal supervision or independently on defined tasks with 100% ownership on outcomes and timelines

- Critically think through the answer to the 'so-what' from a client perspective

- Participate in client/project team meetings and make succinct summaries

- Present to end-clients/US/European stakeholders (if required)

- Articulate project inputs, and highlight risks clearly at the earliest

- Ensure process compliance and adherence to highest quality standards

Education & Experience:

- Graduate degree in Life Sciences/Engineering from a premier institute

Key Skills:

- Self-motivated, with strong work ethic and initiative

- Proactive in identifying issues and opportunities and delivering insightful solutions

- Ability to work in a team and across domains

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Ability to think through things critically

- Demonstrate structured thinking coupled with excellent presentation, and communication skills

- Ability to work under pressure with limited supervision and produce timely, high quality deliverables in a fast-paced environment

- Passionate about research and data analysis and its practical application in the corporate environment

- Ability to pick up concepts related to consulting methodologies, tools and techniques related to functional areas very quickly

- Should possess an aptitude to understand the impact of macro-economic indicators on industry sectors

- Should be able to conceptualize new ideas for research and give shape to them

- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office tools such as PowerPoint and Excel preferable