Life Science Consulting
Full Time
PAN India
Posted 2 months ago
| Designation | Consultant |
| Year of experience | 5+ |
| Education | MBA (Preferred) |
| Role Type | Individual contributor + potential to lead other consultants |
| About the Role | Candidates must have: Experience as a Business Analyst, OR in Agile Project Roles, OR Project Management, Program Management OR Management Consulting. Exhibit domain knowledge in Pharma Commercial domain. Experience in leading client discussions/projects. Excellent verbal, and written communication skills. Experience in supporting business activities like Thought leadership, POVs and RFPs Skillset summary: Commercial domain Knowledge: Healthcare Professional (HCP) and patient engagement, HCP, and patient Data knowledge, understanding of Pharma brand Management, sales & marketing, Customer segmentation, targeting strategy, Forecasting, market access, Product Launch strategy and Product Lifecycle management. Business Analyst: Requirements Gathering Demonstrate exceptional requirement-gathering skills, leveraging clear direction from engagement management. Lead requirement gathering sessions. Organize and sequence requirements into a user requirements document. Write well-formed, validated requirements and manage changes by creating user stories. Use appropriate tools to record, track and manage requirements like Azure Devops, Jira, etc. Business Analysis: Review and analyze relevant documentation to ensure the understanding of an organizations function and capabilities. Conduct relevant research to increase understanding in support of developing comprehensive solutions. Logically structure recommendations and supporting data to formulate a solid, logical, and understandable business case. Utilize appropriate business modeling techniques to represent and graphically depict various activities, processes, and data. These could include: – Business process modeling – Process flow modeling – Data flow modeling – Stakeholder analysis. Agile Roles: Conversant with Agile methodologies of project / product development along with the related phases and ceremonies. Prior experience as a scrum master, product owner, RTE, product manager. Having relevant certifications will be an advantage (CSPO, CSM, SAFe etc.) Project and Program Management:Perform the PMO functions to improve success of the project / program. Prior experience as a business project manager, business program manager Having relevant certifications will be an advantage (PMP etc.) Business Development and Strategy: Hands-on experience in Go-To-Market strategy formulation, business planning and business strategy. Support Cognizant leadership in the development of RFI’s, RFP’s and Service offerings Customer Relationship Management and build and maintain strong relationships at different levels of the client organizations. Domain Consulting: Strategy consulting, Organization Change Management (OCM), Digital Transformation, Market Assessment. (Candidates with one of BA / Agile / PM experience should be willing to learn other skillsets as mentioned below to be a part of the larger Lifesciences consulting team. Experience in Pharma Commercial domain is mandatory) Consulting skillset: Should be able to suggest new thoughts and ideas and implement them. Business development experience (contributed to or led responses to solicited RFPs and proactive proposals). Should have an excellent grasp of Lifesciences market, Lifesciences industry’s competitive landscape, key Lifesciences IT players and market control points. Should have successfully delivered technology and advisory consulting assignments. Excellent verbal, and written communication, problem solving approach, out of the box thinking, stakeholder management. Experience with MS Visio and PowerPoint will be an advantage. Contributed to the development, research and design of consulting and domain mindshare such as: articles, whitepapers, collateral development, infographics, leadership forums, collaboration sessions, Yammer, etc. |
| Ideal Candidate | The ideal candidate will have a technology and business background who can envision how technology can solve business problems and create a competitive advantage for our clients. Such a candidate will have a customer-first view and will know various tools such as Personas, Journey Maps, etc. The candidate should have experience in pharmaceutical market, especially Pharma Commercial domain. The candidate should be well-versed with the latest industry trends. They will also be conversant with Agile methodologies of project/product development along with the phases and ceremonies related to them. Experience in IT Consulting with be a definite plus. The candidates should also have experience of contributing and/or leading team of other consultants in projects, business development and research activities. |
Job Features
| Job Category | IT |
| Experience | 5 Yrs |
| Primary skills | Business Analyst |
| Openings | 8 |