Senior Associate Consultant - Market Research - Pharma/Healthcare Consulting

Key Responsibilities :

- Project Execution: as an engagement leader, responsible for :

- Developing and coaching team members to develop an approach for projects

- Proactively identify potential risks and probable solution to overcome the same

- Detailed quality check to ensure all standard quality check measures are met

- Story boarding and insight generation with effective visual, written, and verbal delivery to business partners

Project Management :

- Leads larger and longer projects with higher visibility & impact; facilitates multiple team / business partners; able to develop project plans

- Makes decisions impacting basic operational, process, project, or service activities

- Educates self and others on complex issues and gains supports for ideas; communicates effectively with a purpose; able to influence the project team to seamlessly execute the project

- Establishes key relationships with business partners; develops solutions to meet needs. Can drive conversations with business partners and advisors leading to increased capability and project penetration

- Experience related requirements

- 5 to 8 years of experience in consulting, brand teams in pharma companies or healthcare consulting companies with demonstrated ability to efficiently execute in an ambiguous environment

Technical Skills :

- Experience in MR, CI, or Forecasting, depending on role.

- Requires commercial and pharma experience (direct or indirect). Provides strategic insights to Advisors, Brand Teams to shape/develop program/brand strategy. Brings deep understanding of therapy area, market and stakeholder (e.g. patients, HCPs and payers)

- Integrates research, intelligence and alternate datasets to generate insights that facilitates decision making

- Facilitates delivery of insights in line with brand/ business unit strategy in collaboration with quantitative market research/ analytics data sets ensuring high efficiency and quality

- Should have demonstrated traits of customer excellence and capability expansion leading to business continuity

- Has relevant knowledge and understanding of key business drivers to improve processes.

- Has good understanding of commercial life cycle of drugs and is able to contribute to effective scoping of projects and insight generation.

- Superior analytical skills - high comfort in using tools (eg Excel) to analyze and visualize data via standard tools/charting methods

Soft Skills :

- Strong work ethic, personal motivation, and team player who is dynamic and result oriented

- Proven teamwork and collaboration skills. Ability to manage multiple partners / projects

- Good interpersonal and communication skills

- Self-Driven and has ability to effectively present and defend analyses