Associate Manager Competitive Intelligence Pharma

POSITION SUMMARY

The assistant manager will be key in ensuring deliverables are in-line with the business needs of the clients enabling the manager to contribute to effectively deriving implications. They will play an important role in contributing to the story-boarding of the project. He/she will support the coaching and professional development of analysts/sr. analysts. Person is expected to build a strong knowledge base and establish themselves as the go-to person for defined therapy areas, over a period of time

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide support to projects in the areas of competitor monitoring, conference coverage, market assessments etc.
• Participate by listening into client calls or other project briefings to understand the objective of the project; To be able to align the deliverable to the KITs and KIQs of the project
• Leverage the best available sources & tools and bring in innovative approaches for data collection and analysis
• Develop meaningful insights and recommendations from disparate data sets
• Independently develop periodic market landscape/ competitive landscape reports - Develop client-

ready outputs (slides or documents) with the best suited data synthesis and convincing visualization to convey key messages

• For conference coverage Assist in: pre-conference planning, in-conference reporting and developing post-conference reports
• Quality check reports and summaries for both accuracy and relevancy
• Support in training and onboarding new team members
• Provide effective support to managers and above during client presentations, proposals/ RFP
• Potentially grow into managing multiple reports and grooming junior members

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

8+ years of pharmaceutical competitive intelligence experience

Highly proficient in Microsoft suite (Excel, PowerPoint and Word)

Very good understanding of pharmaceutical business from commercial and clinical development perspectives, of global pharmaceutical environment and challenges

In-depth experience in working with pharmaceutical databases (Citeline, Trial trove, Factiva etc.) and the ability to judge their appropriate application to the project

Strong analytical skills to grasp problems (complexity, context etc.), and ability to assist in the scoping the solution and effort estimation

Ability to interface with cross-functional teams on a sound clinical and commercial base

Superior communication ability to ensure that the scope of projects/initiatives and expectations are commonly understood

Past experience of contributing to projects in but not limited to competitor monitoring, conference coverage, etc.

Good comprehension ability, impeccable attention to detail and QC abilities

Ability to think critically and work independently

Good organizational, time management and priority setting skills, and the flexibility to multi-task in a fast-paced environment

Excellent written and verbal English skills