The consultant will be involved in providing objective advise, expertise, guidance and specialist skills with the aim of achieving the project targets.

The consultant will mainly work with team to :

- Be part of the client engagements and lead specific work-streams

- Map current processes & control systems and identify gaps and areas of improvement

- Design the target operating model (TOM) for future state processes

- Support the Engagement Manager for activities such as engagement economics and receivables, project resources and team utilization

- Lead the delivery / execution of high quality deliverables and manage service quality, brand and client expectations

- Contribute to brand development by supporting the authoring of articles, developing thought leadership and point-of-views

- Contribute to knowledge development and management

- Demonstrate industry / solution expertise

- Ensure compliance to the firm's standards, processes and policies

- Contribute to the firm's initiatives in enhancing market leadership & growth, quality, people agenda and operational excellence.

Professional Background :

- Post Graduate degree in Business Management (MBA) / life Sciences/ Pharma from a premium institute

- Expertise in two or more of the areas listed

- Experience in working on process transformation, business diagnostics, business case analysis and planning, planning budgeting and forecasting, performance improvement of internal operations, Service sourcing, Vendor assessment, Outsourcing/offshoring strategy and setup, Shared service or organization transformation or design of SLAs, process KPIs and reporting requirements

- Minimum 4 - 8 years of experience in life sciences, pharma or healthcare industry

- Knowledge of current technology landscape, trends and solutions in the life sciences/ healthcare domain

- Relevant consulting experience is preferred

Preferred Skills :

- Exposure to research and development functions (clinical, medical, regulatory), payer and patient data, sales force effectiveness etc.

- Exposure to GBS advisory value chain - location assessment, operating model diagnostics, operating model design, transition & GBS transformation across functions

Hands on experience with different data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI

Core skills :

- Sharp focus on quality delivery

- Understanding of the economic and business environment

- Professional network and networking skills

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Program management, multi-tasking and time management skills

- Excellent people and teaming skills

- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Word, Power Point

Other :

- Willingness to travel

- Willingness to learn and imbibe new skills

- Flexible to adopt to a demanding lifestyle

- Able to thrive in relatively unstructured situations

- High initiative and drive, positive attitude and high commitment

- Maturity and ability to handle pressure.

Academic Background :

- B. Pharm/ M. Pharm (Preferred) + MBA (preferably from a premier institute such as IIMs, NITIE, SP Jain, XLRI, ISB, FMS etc.) with a good academic background

Base Location and Travel :

- Bangalore/Hyderabad

- The consultant would be required to travel to client location

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