Viscadia - Business Associate - Consulting - Pharma Industry - IIT/DCE/NIT/BITS

Viscadia is the leading professional services firm focused exclusively on pharmaceutical and biotech forecasting. We are a rapidly growing firm, comprised of driven, collegial, and intellectually curious individuals. Our team of experts come with many years of experience from the healthcare industry and/or the consulting space.

We seek an Associate to join our India team in Gurgaon. Through project experience and direct mentoring, this role at Viscadia will offer an in-depth education in healthcare businesses dynamics and training in core consulting skills including critical thinking, market analyses, and executive communication.

The responsibilities of an Associate include:

- Conduct secondary research to understand therapeutic areas, disease states and drug products as relevant to the project

- Apply the learnings from secondary research to facilitate the process of primary market research, the results of which can be further used to generate insights as required

- Develop statistical/heuristic models/frameworks that relate marketing or sales activities to financial results

- Apply various optimization techniques to help clients and Viscadia arrive at the best decisions

- Assume responsibility for project deliverables

- Develop expertise in various time series forecasting methods and apply this knowledge towards the new capabilities and service offerings for the company

- Develop expertise in building forecast models and in therapeutic categories in-line with Viscadia's business focus and client base

- Develop sound understanding of pharmaceutical data sources

- Contribute proactively to business development and capability building initiatives

- Be proactive in advancing one's analytical and problem-solving skills and develop skills that are potentially complementary to the team

Qualifications:

- B.Tech/B.E. from a premier engineering college

- 1-2 years of analytics/consulting experience, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry

- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications, especially PowerPoint and Excel

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

- Strong problem solving and analytic skills

- Ability to work collaboratively in teams as well as independently as required

- Willingness to work in a small and fast-growing organization

- Passionate about consulting, and delivering value to drive client business