Manager - Pharma/Lifesciences Analytics - Big4

Education: B.Tech./B.E./Master's Degree/MBA from reputed institute(s) with relevant experience

Required Skills:

Successful candidates will have demonstrated the following skills and characteristics:

- Experience of having excelled in consulting/analytics environment

- Strong leadership and team-management skills, passionate about building team

Experience in PLS analytics and/or PLS operations including the following :

Datasets - Experience working with sales (Rx), claims, formulary, calls data

Therapeutic Areas - Experience working with products from diverse therapeutic areas

Salesforce - Prescriber targeting, salesforce design, incentive compensation, goal setting

Brand Assessment - Launch planning, prioritization, marketing mix optimization and multichannel strategy

Execution - Call planning, workload assessment, sales force effectiveness

RnD - clinical site selection, clinical sites monitoring

- Managed highly skilled and knowledge intensive teams

- Demonstrated contributions in firm and knowledge building activities such as recruitment, intellectual capital development, staffing, marketing, branding

- Actively involved in mentoring and training junior team-members

- Handled multiple projects simultaneously; structured projects/ engagements for the team

- Supported sales and business development activities

- Passion for building teams

- Exposure to advanced analytics methodologies such as Regression (Linear, Logistic, etc.), Cluster Analysis, CART/CHAID, etc.

- Knowledge of statistical data analysis software like SAS//R

- Knowledge of BI and visualization tools like Tableau/Spotfire/Qlikview/Power BI

- Help Healthcare Information & Analytics Practice make a bigger impact in Firm's overall positioning in the market

- Work closely with the Analytics Practice and Firm leadership to grow the overall PLS practice

- Define the scope of work and identify opportunities for out-performing, creating intellectual capital and building reusable methodology/approach/delivery components

- Help develop careers of junior team members

- Project Delivery and Management

- Structure the approach and deliverables for multiple analytics engagements simultaneously

- Manage communication and project delivery between India and US teams

- Manage client expectations, presentations and act as subject matter expert on analytics discussions

- Manage team members proactively

- Help junior members develop the analytics path to align with overall project objective

- Responsible for checking the methodology and results used by team

- Help assess the impact of work, and conduct so-what analysis

- Develop storylines and lead the creation of presentations

- Firm Building & Intellectual Capital Development

- Contribute to research, white papers, blog, and other IC development activities

- Lead thought leadership efforts, generate new ideas for intellectual capital development

- Develop Practice point-of-view on emerging issues and challenges in the areas of business analytics across industries

- Lead recruitment efforts in India; lead campus and off-campus branding efforts in India

Business Development:

- Engage with International clients and adapt to different market maturity stages and business needs

- Active contribution to business development and supporting pre-sales activities

- Support market facing activities such as seminars, event participations

- Help Partners/Directors across the firm in selling analytics projects by acting as a subject matter expert on business development initiatives

- Act as Subject Matter Expert; keep abreast of market developments, identify growth opportunities