Axience - Senior Analyst/Assistant Manager/Manager - Key Account Lead - Pharmaceutical & Diagnostics

Axience is a professional business services firm, established with a credo of delivering - Integrated Bespoke Solutions- for our clients. We provide high quality bespoke and boutique style business, financial research services and have established ourselves as a well-regarded research firm with strong clientele, board of advisors and management team. Our offices are located in Mumbai (India), Dubai (UAE) and Cluj Napoca (Romania) with extended sales and execution capabilities.

We are looking for research and consulting professionals who are absolutely the best in the industry and would like to be part of our success story in next few years and be rewarded in terms of learning, quicker career progression and compensation. Axience is seeking talented individuals at the experienced level who can be further groomed through structured training, on-the-job learning and mentorship into senior-level roles in the future.

We offer competitive financial rewards, rapid learning and growth, and significant and varied responsibility to exceptionally driven and motivated candidates. We provide an intellectually stimulating and empowering work environment and place high emphasis on being an equal opportunity employer.

Research and Consulting

- Under our Research and Consulting vertical, we support reputable large and medium size corporates and consulting firms globally in projects varying from simple newsletters and company profiles to complex competition intelligence/benchmarking, feasibility studies and strategy formulation.

- Our business is a mix of ongoing dedicated analyst relationships and ad-hoc value added projects. This mix allows our staff to have arguably better learning and growth opportunities than our peers.

- We have a continued focus on the pharmaceutical, life sciences and diagnostics industry cluster, where we are looking for professionals with high quality experience in global pharmaceutical/life sciences/diagnostics strategic/market/competitive research and intelligence as well as experience/exposure in commercial analytics/forecasting/HEOR and other areas.

Role Definition

- The account lead will be exclusively responsible for all ongoing projects (existing and new) for one or more accounts in pharmaceutical and diagnostics industry and possibly other sectors

- Account lead will play a key role (if not exclusive lead role) in complex, client engaging ad-hoc projects related to business/market/competitive assessment and intelligence

- He/she will lead anywhere between one to four accounts based on size and importance of accounts, experience and seniority of account lead and other factors and work time to time on other accounts and initiatives

- Account lead will have a customer centric mind over and above delivery centric approach and will engage directly with senior management of the firm and act as an interface between delivery team and management as directed and needed

Core Responsibilities

- Work on range of projects including market entry study, opportunity assessment, competitive landscape, target/supplier identification & benchmarking, newsletters, company profiles, etc

- Lead end to end delivery of projects - scoping, planning, day to day analysis, managing efforts of junior team members, client interface, conducting own analysis and reporting

- Involved in hands-on delivery of a cross section of client and internal projects

- Innovate new ways of gathering, representing and disseminating information, so that coverage and effectiveness is maximized

- Demonstrate and promote top quartile project delivery by strict adherence to quality framework and provide inputs for enhancing the framework

- Support junior team members by providing guidance for day to day project delivery and coaching on subject matter or functional skills

- Manage the relationship with clients (account management) by building a strong personal connect with internal senior stakeholders and client contacts

- Help increase total wallet size of Axience business with the account and in related industries

Desired Academic and Professional Background

- Top tier education and academic performance preferably with advanced degrees one of which should be life sciences or pharmaceuticals related

- Atleast 3 years of experience working on various projects related to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry

- Experience in complex ad-hoc projects requiring structured analysis and thinking over and above information collection and presentation is critical to this and most roles at Axience

- Prior experience in managing research and consulting projects from scope definition to delivery and client engagement

- Prior proven experience in handholding fresh and junior staff in pedagogic manner and developing them

- Proven experience in complex ad-hoc projects delivery efficiently

- Sample suitable background

- Upper quartile consulting/KPO experience followed by a top tier MBA/advance degree

- Top tier MBA/advanced degree followed by upper quartile consulting/KPO/research experience

- Top tier/exceptional bachelor degree with exceptional relevant experience

- Aptitude: desired high aptitude scores in standardize testing