Assistant Manager/Manager - Lifesciences Rsearch

This is with a leading research analytical company.

Level - Assistant Manager/Manager - Lifesciences (may vary as per the fitment)

Location - Noida

Roles and responsibilities:

- Project Management : Independently manage and collaboratively execute customized business research projects focused on procurement and business strategies, for numerous clients including large- midsized life sciences corporations and professional service firms.

Client Engagement : Interact with key client stakeholders to understand project requests and business needs, and communicate project progress/challenges

- Serve as the primary POC for project-related communication to discuss/decide project timelines/scope and collect feedback

- Undertake teleconference-based project Team and Career Management: Display exceptional project/team management skills maintaining high levels of motivation and work ethic among team members

- Execute business research projects in the area of strategy, procurement and/or marketing for various clients

- Contribute to the entire project lifecycle through exhaustive research, data interpretation, insight generation/analysis and report preparation

- Understand research objectives based on client requirements and accordingly build a work approach; interpret and analyse information for accuracy, exhaustiveness and applicability

- Conduct exhaustive secondary research on a variety of topics across sources such as company websites, industry reports, market studies, general news articles as well as databases, and other relevant sources

- Synthesise analytical and actionable insights - through qualitative and quantitative methods - which provide solutions to client's business problem, and present this information in a structured manner

- Deliver high-quality, client-ready output with minimal supervision; identify risks/issues and escalate those to project leads in a timely manner

Ideal Candidate:

- 2 to 5 years of relevant experience in business research ; extensive experience in utilizing those skills in research environment

- Experience of direct interaction with clients, both through emails and conference calls

- Experience of working in teams, Creative outlook and ability to think of multiple approaches to address a problem

- Analytical bent of mind, to seek the why, how and so-what of a problem statement

- Motivated, quick thinker, dynamic person with strong business acumen

- Demonstrate perseverance and 'can do' attitude

- Go getter with quick grasping ability

- Proactive and ready to take initiative