Experienced Associate Clinical Trial Strategy and Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Strategy

Industry/Sector

Specialism

Management Level

Job Description & Summary

JOB OVERVIEW

PwC US ADVISORY MANAGEMENT CONSULTING

Our Management Consulting team works with our global clients to design and implement growth operational and customer focused strategies for sustainable competitive advantage. Our thought leadership and unparalleled experience help clients turn formidable challenges into market advantage across the value chain and around the globe. Additionally our extensive expertise in various industries allow us to serve clients with consulting services with a focus on the most profitable elements of the value chain to create scalable businesses that will deliver increased sustainable profits.

Our Management Consultants work with the client and project teams to support global engagements from India through activities that are driven towards delivering results- conduct analyses and develop insights prepare excel models analyze large sets of data capture as-is processes prepare work plans design to-be processes support project lead work directly with client teams and facilitate meetings to enable decision making organize and prepare recommendations on client issues and participate actively in new business development thought leadership and firm building activities.

COMPETENCY OVERVIEW: HEALTH TRANSFORMATION (HT)

The HT team works with clients across healthcare supporting engagements in driving clients strategic vision and objectives assessing market expansion and growth strategies researching key market trends and its impact on key stakeholders driving operational and process improvements evaluating sustainable cost transformation alternatives and enabling technology driven business success.

Our consultants work to provide a range of client solutions across the following areas:

• Pharma & Life Sciences: We help clients in R&D and commercial domains. Our services span across launch & commercial planning portfolio optimization performance management R&D innovation product development product lifecycle management risk / compliance internal audit risk assessment management and control.
• Payer: We work with clients to bring operational and performance improvement in their core Payer functions with the help of our deep understanding of core functional areas. We help in designing the future operating model payment model growth strategy and functional/technical transformation Business transformation. Our services span across operational performance improvement including benchmarking process mapping and design operating model design project management data and analytics strategy technology effectiveness assessments and market strategy
• Provider: We work with health systems to develop design and implement organizational transformation to improve performance and generate lasting growth. Our services span across operational performance improvement including labor and productivity assessments portfolio rationalization benchmarking process mapping and design operating model design project management technology effectiveness assessments and market strategy

Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Strategy / Generalist

Knowledge - Essential

• Strong understanding of the US Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences ecosystem key stakeholders regulatory and market access landscape
• Solid grounding in pharmaceutical pricing concepts including WAC ASP AMP GTN drivers
• Understanding of PLS datasets including EHR claims data prescription data and patient-level longitudinal dataStrong understanding of the clinical trials landscape and related medical terminologies
• Ability to understand different therapeutic areas (e.g. oncology endocrinology cardiovascular rare diseases)
• In-depth knowledge / experience working in clinical trial design or strategy- drugs/ medical devices (Protocol design viability of trial sites patient populations decentralized trials patient burden etc.)
• Ability to provide strategic recommendations to improve trial efficiency quality and patient safety
• Experience working with databases such as TrialTrove EudraCT etc.

Knowledge - Preferred

• Experience in GTM strategy launch strategy LoE transition planning brand strategy drug lifecycle management
• Experience in supporting AI tools development for pharmaceutical and life sciences use cases
• Experience integrating strategy with advanced analytics use cases

Skill Set - Essential

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with structured strategic thinking
• Ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into clear commercial implications
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint for financial modeling scenario analysis and executive storytelling

Skill Set - Preferred

• Ability to research synthesize and integrate disparate pieces of data analysis and information
• Proficient in one or more from following skills:
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Power Query
• AWS/Azure

Additional skill sets applicable across capability areas:

• Communicating effectively in written and verbal formats to various situations and audiences
• Compelling storytelling through creative presentation and powerful visualization (including Tableau PowerBI)
• Hypothesis based problem solving with abstract/limited data
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of tools
• Demonstrates flexibility in adapting to changing client/business needs
• Flexibility to work across multiple sectors
• Demonstrates ability to work in a global delivery model

Educational Background:

Degree Preferred:

• MBA from a top-tier business school with demonstrated focus on strategy healthcare or life sciences
• Advanced life sciences degrees such as MPharm MS in Biotechnology or MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Additional Information:

• Level: Experienced Associate
• Function: Pharma and Life Sciences R&D Operations
• Experience: 24 to 36 months of relevant work experience
• Time Type: Full time
• Work Timings: Work hours may vary for specific projects
• Travel Requirements: Travel to client locations may be required as per project requirements
• Office Location: Bangalore

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