Consultant

Job Description:

Consultant will be responsible for making objective customer-focused and data-driven decisions by providing analytical insight, actionable data, and recommendations. You would also be responsible for projects, providing analytics support, and serving in a consultative capacity to deliver value-added descriptive analytics solutions for large scale pharma projects

Position Purpose:

• Responsible for proposing, implementing and developing solutions using Real World Data to cater US commercial needs
• Work with the client facing teams to develop the proposal by evaluating client asks, data feasibility and high-level methodology of implementation
• Work independently and/or manage a small team
• Work efficiently with data, analytical and presentation tools such as SQL, SAS, R, Python
• Analyze and present the analysis findings in a client-ready format
• Mentor junior team members and help their project/deliverables
• Understand and refine or develop methodologies using patient level data analytics to cater pharmaceutical commercial solutions

What your day would look like

• Brainstorming with onshore team and end clients to understand business requirements and provide technical solutions for complex client specifications
• Designing methodology and solutions for key business asks
• Understand pharmaceutical ecosystem and data sets
• Use of excel, PowerPoint, SQL, R or Python and visualization tools to represent actionable insights
• Integration of technical knowledge with business goals and strategy to achieve insights for end clients
• Act as an advocate for client needs, putting yourself in their shoes to ideate on ways to enhance business value for the client

Skills, Role, and Responsibilities:

• Strong analytical ability, attention to detail and problem-solving ability with demonstrated hands-on work experience in data analytics
• Great understanding of US healthcare system, data assets (Claims) and commercial operations of a pharmaceutical company
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including presentations
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with others in and across the organization to accomplish project/team goals
• Knowledge of project management tools and techniques desirable
• Hands-on knowledge on IQVIA (IMS) datasets such LRx & DX Claims, Xponent, DDD, Hospital data, etc.
• Adaptability and an ability to learn quickly and apply new knowledge
• Timely delivery of all the projects/activities with utmost quality output
• Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple, diverse projects simultaneously
• Proper documentation of all the project related activities
• Managing processes independently and/or manage small team

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor or master’s degree in Pharma / B. Tech / MBA / MCA
• 6-8 years of relevant experience in Healthcare Analytics (overall up to 12 years)

Good to have:

• Familiar with pharmaceutical domain, concepts, and terminologies, understanding of broader healthcare market dynamics (broad themes/latest trends in the pharma industry etc.)
• Having SAS, Python knowledge is added advantage
• Must be flexible, independent, and self-motivated

Additional Requirements:

• Flexibility (should be ready to stretch whenever there is an increased work load or decreased capacity)
• Good level of attention to detail
• Good interpersonal skills (should have good listening skills, patience and handle situations in a calm and composed way)

• Good team player (should be ready to share the work among the team members and help the team meet deadlines)

What’s in it for you:

• Impacting change at scale for leading global pharma clients
• Exposure to multiple analytics domains including patient analytics, advanced analytics, profiling etc.
• Working on exciting new ways of deriving insights from large data sets
• Working in a highly dynamic environment with exposure to learning across analytics domains and technology
• Autonomy and ownership of your workstream and engagement including a chance to lead your own team/(s)
• Opportunity to grow project and accounts by building new tools/service lines/capabilities by working with senior leaders globally
• Significant opportunities to grow as a part of a global analytics organization
• Opportunity to travel internationally on a need basis

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide . Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com