Associate Consultant, EMEA Strategy Consulting- Life Science/Pharma

Position: Associate , EMEA Strategy Consulting- Life Sciences and Healthcare

Job Family: EMEA, Life Science|Strategy Consulting

Education: Candidate must hold MBA/PGDM from tier 1

Location: Hybrid Bangalore or Gurgaon or Pune or Hyderabad

Experience: 0-2 Years

The Role

In this role, you'll support the design, development, and delivery of exciting and complex consulting projects for some of the worlds best-known organisations. By translating data into meaningful information and communicating your recommendations, you’ll gain valuable insights and start your career with a boost.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Your analytical, inter-personal, creative thinking, business management and leadership skills will be called upon from day one. You will help create change in the world of Life Sciences, every project will be different but a sample of the accomplishments you can expect are:
• Conducting primary and secondary research and performing quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify key client issues, translating the data into meaningful insights and communicating recommendations to key decision makers
• Leveraging business experience and acumen in identifying strategic alternatives to client questions
• Working in a team of like-minded professionals to create reports, presentations, workshops with client employees, management teams and other stakeholders, under the guidance our “the best on the business” team leaders
• Developing broad knowledge of related consulting methodologies and pharmaceutical market through the delivery of consulting engagements and participation in formal and informal learning opportunities
• Working independently and as part of a team, with responsibility for supervising junior team members
• Assisting development and writing of proposals with senior support
• Attending, supporting and presenting at client meetings
• Contributing to learning, development and recruiting

About You

Candidates interested in joining as an Associate should have:

• Undergraduate/master’s degree in life sciences, economics/business, and 0-1 years’ experience in the healthcare/pharmaceutical industry OR an academic PhD degree with commercial experience in the healthcare industry
• Demonstrable analytical, interpretative and problem-solving skills
• Previous experience in Commercial Consulting, Strategy Consulting
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills including presentations, meeting and workshop facilitation, business and report writing
• Strong capability in juggling priorities to meet deadlines while retaining consistently high quality outcomes
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with others in and across the organization to accomplish team goals
• Knowledge of key issues and current developments in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries
• An avid interest in the healthcare and life sciences industries
• Knowledge of consulting methodologies, tools and techniques
• Basic understanding of and willingness to learn Generative AI and its hands-on application in business problem-solving
• Adaptability and an ability to learn quickly and apply new knowledge and thinking
• A willingness and ability to travel