Associate Consultant

Associate Consultant - Competitive Intelligence CoE, GDC, India

Role Purpose:

Principal Accountabilities

• Operational Responsibilities
• Perform extensive research to build a detailed understanding of the target market, company or opportunity
• Source information based on specific client requirements through
  

• Integrate qualitative and quantitative data and present the analysis in a
  

• Undertake market analysis to include details on the market characteristics such as
  

• Deliver high quality, client-ready output with minimal supervision; identify risks / issues and escalate to the project leads in a timely manner
• Execution
• Understands and organizes own and other’s activities within project plan·
• Tracks progress of own and others’ deliverables, anticipates obstacles
  

• Is flexible to receive scope adaptation and contingency plans; guides
  

• Meets all corporate obligations (e.g. submitting timecards, completing all training on time) for self and guides others.
• Innovation
• Looks for opportunities to make changes and questions conventional work methods. Is prepared to “try out” different solutions or take an unorthodox approach; actively participates in idea generation.
• Identifies changes which will improve performance in own and teams’ work·
• Applies experience and knowledge to identify where modifications to existing approaches are warranted by breaking down the parts of the problem and applying knowledge of what has worked versus not worked in the past.
• Benchmarks proven methodologies (from within and outside of IQVIA) and questions whether those methodologies are applicable or if they can be enhanced for implementation at IQVIA
• Communication:
• Excellent communication skills to interact with stakeholders across teams
• Presents confidently internally and listens to and responds effectively to issues and concerns
• Understands when to reference past examples and knows where to locate them (e.g., PPT image bank, previous presentations). Active contribution during meetings
• Excellent interpersonal skills: the ability to communicate with different
  

• Qualifications
• Graduate/post-graduate degree in Life Sciences from a premier institute
• 2+ years of experience within Pharmaceutical/ Biotechnology/ Consulting/ Professional Services Outsourcing company
• Demonstrated hands on expertise in one or more practice areas
• Strong analytical, problem solving, interpersonal, and presentation skills.