Consultant

Job Description

1. Lead insight generation through robust secondary market research, including the analysis of real-world data, industry reports, and healthcare databases, to deliver strategic recommendations to life sciences clients. Supplement with primary research as appropriate to provide a comprehensive perspective.
2. Oversee active workstreams and supports senior leadership and cross-functional teams to identify or drive new business opportunities.
3. Develop and deliver high-quality client materials, including research instruments, interim findings, and final presentations, ensuring they meet client expectations and strategic objectives.
4. Manage project teams by coordinating day-to-day work, mentoring junior staff, and ensuring smooth communication across internal and client-facing stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Drive project execution by translating client problem statements into structured analytical approaches, designing tailored analysis frameworks, and coordinating internal meetings to communicate findings and progress.
2. Act as the primary client liaison, managing communication and addressing concerns or issues throughout the engagement to ensure high client satisfaction.
3. Support business development efforts by assisting senior leadership in key elements of the sales process, including proposal development, pitch preparation, and strategic opportunity scoping.
4. Stay current with industry trends and best practices in healthcare analytics, integrating relevant innovations and methodologies into project work and service offerings.

Qualifications

Education and Training Required:

• Master’s degree in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, economics, mathematics, engineering, operations research, health informatics or a related field from an elite institution with a strong academic record; at least four years of relevant and progressively responsible work experience as a quantitative analyst, using varied procedures and problem-solving methodologies in a healthcare professional services firm, healthcare sciences product company or related organization

Minimum Experience: 

• Minimum of four years of hands-on experience in global market research, with a strong and demonstrable focus on secondary market analytics. Experience must include working with large healthcare datasets, applying statistical analysis, and generating actionable insights. In addition, exposure to primary research activities such as survey design, programming and testing, sample stratification, qualitative interviewing, data validation, and the development of weighting or projection methodologies — is a strong plus but not required.
• Extensive familiarity with healthcare industry data sources, such as medical and pharmacy claims data, electronic medical records (EMR), anonymous patient-level datasets (APLD), panel and registry data, behavioral and chronic disease surveillance studies, prescription and prescriber data, and managed care/formulary information.
• Direct experience with statistical and programming tools, including SQL, SPSS, R, SAS, or Python, applied in professional or academic settings for data analysis and modeling.

Knowledge, Skill, Ability:

• Participation in projects for drug development, business commercialization and brand marketing processes in biopharmaceutical industry