Competitive Intelligence

Position Summary :

The overarching objective of the role of a Director is going to be able a lead and provide a clear path to client engagements by utilizing multi-disciplinary teams in the Life Science domain. Most importantly, you will be expected to come with the experience of interacting with senior management client teams and ensuring that the execution is in-line with their expectations.

Roles and Responsibilities :

Leadership :

- Interface with senior management for execution and strategy development

- Ability to train and mentor juniors in multi-dimensional roles in a dynamic fast paced environment

- Build and manage teams across functional domains

- Lead teams through high impact and conflicting situations to deliver seamlessly

- Provide innovative and best practices to create a high energy positive work environment

Client engagement :

- Engage with internal and external stakeholders to build effective relationships to create win-win engagement models

- Provide strategic solutions through innovative frameworks

- Provide a clear leadership path to client engagements

- Deliver presentations of the findings to clients onsite or through teleconferences

Project management :

- Synthesize information from a wide variety of secondary and primary sources

- Prepare in-depth analysis of key competitors' strategies, offering insights to support key business decisions for clients

- Provide robust competitive assessments and insights that inform key decision-making processes for clients such as strategic brand planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management

Required Knowledge and Skills :

- 11-13 years of relevant competitive intelligence and commercial analytics experience in Life Science, especially with global pharma

- Broad experience in the key functional areas of Competitive Intelligence, analytics, market assessments and market research including the ability to understand and identify key business levers

- Strong strategic skills including ability to see the big picture, conceptual/out of the box thinking

- Proven senior management client presence and exceptional communication skills are a must

- Understanding of higher-level analytics and know-how on portals and web-based tools

- Working knowledge of classic industry information/data sources

- Ability to provide guidance to project teams in terms of :

- Client management

- Change management

- Project scope, timelines and effort estimation

- Demonstrated competencies required in the following areas: collaboration, organization, written and verbal communication, accuracy, and personal initiative

- Other requirements include concise and impactful written and verbal communications; first-hand experience working on and influencing multi-functional teams; and the ability to provide leadership across multiple projects simultaneously

- Ability to balance conflicting priorities

- Work experience in the US/European pharma industry a plus

- Proven people management skills

This position may require up to 30% travel.

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