Job Role:

The consultant will be involved in providing objective advise, expertise, guidance and specialist skills with the aim of achieving the project targets. The consultant will mainly work with the EY team to:

- Be part of the client engagements and lead specific work-streams

- Map current processes & control systems and identify gaps and areas of improvement

- Design the target operating model (TOM) for future state processes

- Support the Engagement Manager for activities such as engagement economics and receivables, project resources and team utilization

- Lead the delivery / execution of high quality deliverables and manage service quality, brand and client expectations

- Contribute to brand development by supporting the authoring of articles, developing thought leadership and point-of-views

- Contribute to knowledge development and management

- Demonstrate industry / solution expertise

- Ensure compliance to the firm's standards, processes and policies

- Contribute to the firm's initiatives in enhancing market leadership & growth, quality, people agenda and operational excellence

Professional Background:

- Post Graduate degree in Business Management (MBA) / life Sciences/ Pharma from a premium institute

- Expertise in two or more of the areas listed

- Experience in working on process transformation, business diagnostics, business case analysis and planning, planning budgeting and forecasting, performance improvement of internal operations, Service sourcing, Vendor assessment, Outsourcing/offshoring strategy and setup, Shared service or organization transformation or design of SLAs, process KPIs and reporting requirements

- Minimum 2-3 years of experience in life sciences, pharma or healthcare industry

- Knowledge of current technology landscape, trends and solutions in the life sciences/ healthcare domain

- Relevant consulting experience is preferred

Preferred Skills:

- Exposure to research and development functions (clinical, medical, regulatory), payer and patient data, sales force effectiveness etc.

- Exposure to GBS advisory value chain - location assessment, operating model diagnostics, operating model design, transition & GBS transformation across functions

- Hands on experience with different data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI

Core skills:

- Sharp focus on quality delivery

- Understanding of the economic and business environment

- Professional network and networking skills

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Program management, multi-tasking and time management skills

- Excellent people and teaming skills

- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Word, Power Point

Other:

- Willingness to travel

- Willingness to learn and imbibe new skills

- Flexible to adopt to a demanding lifestyle

- Able to thrive in relatively unstructured situations

- High initiative and drive, positive attitude and high commitment

- Maturity and ability to handle pressure

Academic Background:

- B. Pharm/ M. Pharm (Preferred) + MBA (preferably from a premier institute such as IIMs, NITIE, SP Jain, XLRI, ISB, FMS etc.) with a good academic background

Base Location and Travel:

- Delhi/ Gurugram

- The consultant would be required to travel to client location