Experienced Associate R&D Operations and Strategic Planning

Industry/Sector

Specialism

Management Level

Job Description & Summary

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 allows 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 across R&D and commercial value chains. Our services span across R&D operations and innovation product development product lifecycle management project management clinical resource management due diligence regulatory and governance risk and compliance internal audit product launch & commercial planning go-to-market strategy patient support services digital health and portfolio optimization and management
• Payor: We work with clients to bring operational and performance improvement in their core Payor 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 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 clients to develop design and implement organizational transformation to improve performance and generate lasting growth. Our services span operational performance improvement including labor and productivity assessments benchmarking process mapping and design operating model design project management technology effectiveness assessments and market strategy

R&D Operations and Strategic Planning

Knowledge

Essential

• Strong understanding of the US Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences landscape R&D operations and clinical trial data management system
• R&D Operations business process and model covering portfolio resource and financial management
• R&D governance & executive reporting framework

Experience in conducting qualitative and/ or quantitative benchmarking

Preferred

• Experience in decision analytics
• Clinical systems validation and integration
• Standard data Tabulation Model on clinical data analysis
• ETL data process data pipeline development migration and data implementation across third party tools

Project and portfolio management tools such as Anaplan Eplan CTMS Planisware Smartsheet Microsoft project plan

Skill Set

Essential

• Analytical mindset with strong quantitative and problem-solving skills
• Ability to conduct primary and secondary research
• Proficient in Python SQL and any other statistical tools
• Expert level proficiency in MS office and G-Suite
• Basic proficiency in cloud technologies

Preferred

• Ability to research synthesize and integrate disparate pieces of data analysis and information
• Proficient in at least one of the visualization tools like React JS Figma
• Proficient in one or more from following skills:
  • R
  • SQL
  • Python
  • VBA
  • Power Query
  • Smartsheet
  • AWS/Azure
  • AI in Pharma

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:

Any one of the following academic profiles:

• 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
• Experience: 12 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

Travel Requirements

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