Senior Analyst / Consultant

Salary: £60,000 – £72,000 per year

A full time, perm Senior Analyst / Consultant is needed for a North West based business.

Working alongside Pharma Forecasters, Analysts, Business Insights Managers & Marketing Depts to create forecasting solutions, meeting the needs of individuals & pharma co’s. They’ve invested heavily in product dev with strong support from their sales & marketing functions to reach some of the largest pharma & biotech co’s in the world. This has resulted in significant growth in both revenue & overall size of the business

Role

• Working on consulting projects, involved in PM’ing, design of solution scoping docs, analysis of data, solution testing & report writing
• Delivery of their forecasting platform SaaS based solution, working to tight deadlines
• Managing components of projects, or be responsible for the overall management of simple projects, whilst working within a team
• Liaising with int & ext clients on an on-going basis, it’s essential you’re customer focused, responsive & proactive, with commitment to deliver the highest quality of care & service, comfortable reviewing, analysing & interpreting large volumes of numerical info

What will you achieve?

• Become an integral member of the team, forming strong & productive working relationships across all depts
• Deliver a wide range of pharma forecasting consultancy projects
• Internal innovation, process & / or product dev initiatives

Responsibilities: 

• Managing components of projects, potentially playing a significant role in complex projects & leading management of relatively simple projects
• Involvement in int co initiatives, contributing significantly & / or leading specific initiatives
• Managing upsell opps within existing projects, alongside sales team, by identifying clients needs, ideal solution & developing proposal
• Support the consulting team on BD activities & support the sales team in specific, pre-determined BD activities
• Undertake interviews with stakeholders, complete data audits, to identify client reqs to scope & design the overall project
• Develop solution scoping docs, providing the basis for the tech dev of the solution
• Be a key link between the tech team & the client throughout the forecasting solution dev process
• Ensuring high quality deliverables from project initiation to delivery, including model testing
• Support project implementation via training with key stakeholders in the client’s business
• Respond proactively to client requests & solve their ongoing short & long-term forecasting challenges
• Provide consultancy support by completing specific forecasting activities, such as model population, scenario running, secondary data analysis

Person Spec: 

• 3-5+ yrs’ exp
• Scientific academic background
• Pharma industry knowledge
• / application of forecasting techniques, forecasting cycles & business process reqs
• Commercial / consultancy exp
• PM exp
• Able to travel
• Must be proactive & autonomous