Consultant, Commercial Outsourcing Services

Consultant, Commercial Outsourcing Services

IQVIA Commercial Outsourcing Services (or COS) is a rapidly growing provider of long term analytical, forecasting, project management, and reporting services. COS engages with clients in the pharma and life sciences space via a variety of engagement models and is specialized to work with our clients on critical business issues.

As a Consultant, you’ll be actively participating in the development, delivery, and management of data analytics and consulting projects. These engagements may be in the areas of real-world effectiveness, market research, forecasting, product launch, business intelligence, sales operations, sales force effectiveness, multi-channel marketing, marketing operations, incentive compensation, oncology, payer/provider services, thought leadership, primary market research, and technology & applications.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze secondary data and desk market research to identify key findings and trends
• Create and lead quantitative or qualitative analysis to support client deliverables and business decisions as they relate to IQVIA data
• Independently create presentations for clients
• Attend, support and present at client meetings, independently or with senior support
• Manage projects and work streams of reasonable, independently or with senior support
• Assist in the development and writing of proposals with senior support
• Assist in developing detailed documentation and specifications, including business process documentation, SOPs (Standard operating procedures), and client data scorecards
• Be able to quickly learn and work with sales and promotional data, market and epidemiology assessment, pipeline analysis and market research with senior support
• Develop broad knowledge of related consulting methodologies and pharmaceutical market through the delivery of consulting engagements and participation in formal and informal learning opportunities
• Work willingly and effectively with others in and across the organization to accomplish team goal, both internally and externally
• Lead projects and initiatives over Analysts and Associate Consultants with indirect oversight

Requirements:

• Undergraduate or master’s degree in Engineering, IT, Business Administration, Mathematics, Data analytics, or related.
• 4-6 years of relevant experience as a Consultant or similar
• Advanced English level (written and spoken)
• Strong knowledge in MS Excel, MS Access, and MS PowerPoint
• An avid interest in healthcare analytics and data
• Ability to follow SOPs, processes and execute effective documentation of project-related work
• Strong business acumen and understanding of sales & marketing business principals
• Project management and stakeholder management previous experience
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and team-working skills
• Exceptional written, numerical, and problem-solving skills
• Adaptability and an ability to learn quickly and apply new knowledge
• Strong capability in managing priorities so that deadlines are met while retaining consistent, high quality outcomes
• Demonstrate analytical, interpretative, and problem-solving skills, working with large and multiple data sets to process data in the required format for the analysis.

Desirable:

• Understanding of the US healthcare market
• Strong technical skills in any of the following: SAS (Statistical Analysis System), Oracle SQL, R Programming, Tableau, and Excel VBA
• Prior working experience in any of the following: market research, marketing insights, marketing analytics, multichannel marketing, consumer marketing, branding, forecasting, statistics, predictive modeling, primary market research, technology & applications, healthcare IT, managed markets, management consulting, sales force effectiveness, sales operations, business intelligence, epidemiology, HEOR, data mining, data governance, outsourcing, offshoring, web analytics, data development and programming, and Google Analytics
• Prior healthcare data experience, including working knowledge of physician, patient, claims, and epidemiology data is desired, preferably IQVIA data
• Knowledge and understanding of the fundamental processes of pharmaceutical commercial business, their interaction, and the impact of external/internal influences on decision making, growth and decline
• Knowledge of key issues and current developments in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries

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.