Manager - Quantitative PMR - Lifesciences/Pharma/Healthcare

Manager (Quantitative PMR)

No. of Positions : 1

Industry : Open (Lifesciences/ Pharma / healthcare sectors - good to have)

Qualification : Bachelor's degree required

Work Location : Gurgaon

Experience : 5+ Years

Position Summary :

Managers combine best-in-class analytic skills with strong problem-solving and communication abilities to help clients solve strategic and tactical business problems. Managers are skilled at all aspects of project execution with the ability to prepare client-ready materials with limited oversight / guidance from project managers. They are expected to independently manage specific tasks / workstreams within projects and mentor junior team members. Managers may work on multiple projects simultaneously and lead a small team in each one of them.

Position Responsibilities :

- Ensures development of a successful project / workstream plan after high level direction from the senior project lead with a clear understanding of project objectives

- Takes ownership of methodology instrument design for market research projects to address key objectives based on high level guidance provided by senior project team member

- Translates understanding of brand strategy and client needs & beliefs into likely hypotheses, and ensures analytical approach is effective in testing hypotheses to find most relevant insights

- Anticipates potential challenges in analysis and proactively works with team to figure out a mitigation strategy

- Demonstrates creative flexibility and innovation to modify design approach as necessary with more abstract client feedback or changing business project objectives

- Is able to use the prior experience to apply advanced statistical knowledge (CHAID, Choice modeling, Clustering, kNN, Regression etc.) to solve a business problem

- Ensures that team members are able to execute the analysis with right analytical approach and proper quality check guidelines

- Proactively creates good processes and automation set ups to increase the efficiency and quality of the deliverables

- Responsible for quality of entire team and all materials; double-checks all project materials and analysis provided from other team members

- Maintains focus on strategic implications of analytical insights, and effectively guides junior team member(s) to achieve necessary depth and breadth of insights

- Ensure client needs and preferences are incorporated into slide development; customizes report to audience and format of presentation when developing deliverables

- Guides development of new slide frameworks and visual templates that can present key data / insights powerfully

- Sends timely and thoughtful responses to client/leadership requests, questions, and needs

- Presents project findings & recommendations to clients in a compelling and engaging way (when appropriate based on client presentation preferences)

- Responsible for professional development, engagement and coaching of junior team members

- Teaches best practices to junior team members for structured written and verbal communication

- Demonstrates a desire and willingness to learn, and learns for all interactions and team members on a project/team

- Adapts working style as needed, developing strong collaboration and trust across team members

- Demonstrates good judgement across all interactions, and a respect for all team members internally and externally

Position Requirements :

Education : A bachelor or masters degree in a quantitative, analytical discipline, such as Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Management Science, Data Science, Statistics, or Engineering will be preferred

Manager : Minimum 5 years of experience in Market Research and marketing consulting work.

- Knowledge of US healthcare market will be a plus

- Experience in execution of advanced analytical methods CHAID, Hypothesis Testing, A/B testing, CART, Regression, Clustering, Factor Analysis, MNL, Choice Modeling, kNN, K-means, Predictive analysis, Generalized Linear Models etc.

- Knowledge of tools/programming platforms Sawtooth, R, SAS, SPSS, Advanced Excel, Advanced Powerpoint

- Experience in writing surveys and discussion guides with knowledge of biases and ways to make instruments easier for respondents

- Evidence of leading and managing teams/projects

- Evidence of strong oral and written communication

- Evidence of working in a fast-paced versatile environment

- Comfort and flexibility with ambiguity

- Strong attention to detail with a quality focused mindset

- Evidence for high motivation and good professional attitude/work ethic

- Career Progression/Growth path: Manager>> Sr. Manager >> Associate Director>> Director

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