IQVIA - Senior Consultant - Patient Analytics

Job Description:

Sr. Consultant Patient Analytics will be responsible for making objective customer-focused and data-driven decisions by providing analytical insight, actionable data, and recommendations. You would also be responsible for projects, providing analytics support, and serving in a consultative capacity to deliver value-added descriptive analytics solutions for large scale pharma projects

Position Purpose:

- Responsible for proposing, implementing and developing solutions using Real World Data to cater US commercial needs

- Work with the client facing teams to develop the proposal by evaluating client asks, data feasibility and high-level methodology of implementation

- Work independently (IC) and/or manage a small team

- Work efficiently with data, analytical and presentation tools such as PL SQL, SAS, R

- Analyze and present the analysis findings in a client-ready format

- Mentor junior team members and help their project/deliverables

- Understand and refine or develop methodologies using patient level data analytics to cater pharmaceutical commercial solutions

What your day would look like :

- Brainstorming with onshore team and end clients to understand business requirements and provide technical solutions for complex client specifications

- Designing methodology and solutions for key business asks

Advanced analysis using large volume of sales, patient level datasets such as : 

- APLD datasets

- EMR/Clinical/Laboratory test data

- Claims data

- MIDAS data

- Working on advanced analytics in the pharma domain throughout the drug life cycle, and patient journey

- Line of Therapy, Persistency Analysis, Compliance, Adherence

- Source of Business

- Competitor analysis

- HCP analysis (new therapy initiator)

- Tigger analysis (conditions triggering usage of a product in a therapeutic area)

- Use of excel, PowerPoint, SQL, R or Python and visualization tools to represent actionable insights

- Integration of technical knowledge with business goals and strategy to achieve insights for end clients

- Act as an advocate for client needs, putting yourself in their shoes to ideate on ways to enhance business value for the client

Skills, Role, and Responsibilities :

- Strong analytical ability, attention to detail and problem-solving ability with demonstrated hands-on work experience in data analytics

- Great understanding of US healthcare system, data assets (Claims) and commercial operations of a pharmaceutical company

- Support development and analytics activities using PL SQL & SAS technologies

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including presentations

- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with others in and across the organization to accomplish project/team goals

- Knowledge of project management tools and techniques desirable

- Hands-on knowledge on IQVIA (IMS) datasets such LRx & DX Claims, Xponent, DDD, Hospital data, etc.

- Adaptability and an ability to learn quickly and apply new knowledge

- Timely delivery of all the projects/activities with utmost quality output

- Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple, diverse projects simultaneously

- Proper documentation of all the project related activities

- Managing processes independently and/or manage small team

Education & Experience:

- Bachelor or master's degree in Pharma / B. Tech / MBA / MCA

- 6-8 years of relevant experience in Healthcare Analytics (overall up to 14 years)

Tools, Technology & Data:

- Strong working experience on Oracle/PL SQL

- Hand on knowledge on Base SAS

- Must have advanced MS Office skills

- Must have pharmaceutical data knowledge which are widely used in industry

Good to have:

- Familiar with pharmaceutical domain, concepts, and terminologies, understanding of broader healthcare market dynamics (broad themes/latest trends in the pharma industry etc.)

- Having UNIX, Shell script, SAS, Python knowledge is added advantage

- Must be flexible, independent, and self-motivated

Additional Requirements:

- Flexibility (should be ready to stretch whenever there is an increased work load or decreased capacity)

- Good level of attention to detail

- Good interpersonal skills (should have good listening skills, patience and handle situations in a calm and composed way)

- Good team player (should be ready to share the work among the team members and help the team meet deadlines)

What's in it for you:

- Impacting change at scale for leading global pharma clients

- Exposure to multiple analytics domains including patient analytics, advanced analytics, profiling etc.

- Working on exciting new ways of deriving insights from large data sets

- Working in a highly dynamic environment with exposure to learning across analytics domains and technology (including AI/ML!)

- Autonomy and ownership of your workstream and engagement including a chance to lead your own team/(s)

- Opportunity to grow project and accounts by building new tools/service lines/capabilities by working with senior leaders globally

- Significant opportunities to grow as a part of a global analytics organization

- Opportunity to travel internationally on a need basis