Engagement Manager, Thought Leader (KOL) Identification

Engagement Manager, Thought Leader (KOL) Identification

About us:

At IQVIA, we look for the very best people, and then give them meaningful work to do. We don’t simply think about careers, we think about contributions. Those who choose to work with us are joining a recognized global leader — a company uniquely positioned to help clients make the most of market opportunities and respond to challenges that affect global healthcare. We’re committed to blending industry expertise and advanced technology to deliver the most accurate perspectives and in-depth analytics on healthcare dynamics.

To join IQVIA means you’ll be part of a worldwide organization where one person can make a difference, and where collaboration and innovation rule. Our people are creative and client focused. They are among the best and brightest in the industry. And they bring a broad range of expertise to the table. Our people are analysts, statisticians, software engineers, consultants, sales leaders, marketing, and product managers, and more. The key to our success is our people, whose experience, talent, commitment, and diversity set the standard for the health information industry.

Total Rewards:

We invest in people through a range of initiatives in compensation, benefits, and learning and development, and we strive to create an environment where our employees are challenged, empowered, and can flourish.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading KOL identification projects using our scientific network insights methodology which includes analysis of medical publications, clinical trials, conference presentations, and professional organizations.
• Will serve as the “channel captain” for the scientific network insight offering within the team, continuously improving our analytics methodologies, processes and approaches, as well as staying abreast of competitive developments to ensure that the team is offering differentiated value to our clients in this area.
• Will act as the primary and “lead” person for this function and must, therefore, have the maturity, experience, and organizational project management skills to act independently and effectively.
• Interfaces regularly and coordinates with the technical team that programs and conducts searches against various medical databases (e.g., PubMed, ClinicalTrial.gov., etc.).  As such, should be comfortable with data integration, analysis and scoring across complementary datasets (e.g., pub, org, conference, peer nomination, etc.)
• Plays a leadership role interfacing and directing external data search activities provided by our offshore team(s) for organizational & conference analytics, as well as in-depth leader profile generation.
• Will typically have multiple projects at various stages of completion that are underway simultaneously. Organization and workflow tracking are critical to the job.
• Experience and expertise that supports their ability to develop disease specific search strategies for publication (PubMed), clinical trial (CT.gov), conference presentations, and organization analysis is desired.

Requirements and Desired Attributes:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8-12 years of related experience including consulting and pharmaceutical and/or healthcare industry experience. 
• 3-5+ years of work experience in thought leader identification
• Demonstrated experience and high degree of familiarity using and analyzing medical databases (e.g., PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, Conference data, other online medical data sources, etc.)
• Advanced MS Excel / PowerPoint skills
• Demonstrated expertise in medical and disease related terminology; ability to apply this expertise across multiple therapeutic areas
• Pharmaceutical industry experience in areas related to bioinformatics and/or thought leader identification highly desirable
• Analytical and strategic mindset (beyond task orientation)
• Proven ability and desire to work independently
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proficient in basic supporting software; MS Office skills

#CONAJD

At IQVIA, we believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. The advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services we provide to the life sciences industry are made possible by our 70,000+ employees around the world who apply their insight, curiosity and intellectual courage every step of the way. Learn more at jobs.iqvia.com.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable law.

IQVIA, Inc. provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.  Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to submit an application for employment or otherwise participate in the application process should contact IQVIA’s Talent Acquisition team at workday_recruiting@iqvia.com to arrange for such an accommodation.