Data Management & Strategy - Life Sciences - Manager- Consulting - Location OPEN

Technology - Data Management & Strategy – Manager – Life Sciences Sector

The opportunity

We are seeking an experienced forecasting leader with over 10+ years of experience who is passionate about all things commercial pharma. This role is focused on strategic forecasting and allied capabilities and hence candidate should have deep expertise in commercial analytics, strategic/financial forecasting and preferably demand planning/supply chain forecasting.

Areas of Expertise needed in Strategic Planning, Forecasting & Benchmarking, Market & GAP analysis, Financial Reporting, Market Entry Strategy, Commercial Analytics & Brand Development

As a Manager in Data Management & Strategy, you will lead the charge in technology transformation projects, aligning with strategic objectives to drive desired outcomes. You'll be the assurance to leadership, managing timelines, costs, and quality standards, while steering both technical and non-technical teams to deliver top-notch technology solutions and infrastructure.

Your key responsibilities

In this pivotal role, you will:

• Oversee the delivery of technology projects, ensuring adherence to methodologies like Agile and Waterfall, and mentoring team members.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation, applying research, analysis, and best practices to advance processes and solutions.
• Manage complex technical initiatives, providing expert guidance, resolving issues, and achieving performance objectives across client service, risk management, and team development.
• Engage actively with clients, leading workstreams, and identifying opportunities to expand services.
• Spearhead RFP responses and manage engagement economics, including resource planning and budgeting.
• Travel as required to meet client needs and project demands.

Overall delivery

• Lead delivery of large client engagements be accountable for success of the delivery with very high quality and timeliness in an evolving business environment. 
• Strong functional knowledge in brand volume forecasts for both short-term and long-term strategic and operational planning. Solve regional and brand-level analytical challenges using quantitative approaches
• Deep understanding of forecasting algorithms (time series forecasting, patient flow), external datasets (e.g. IQVIA, Kantar, Komodo)
• Manage project budgets, timelines, and resources to ensure successful project delivery.
• Advise team on performing sensitivity analyses to identify opportunities and manage risks, enhancing forecast accuracy.
• Strong digital engineering, data science and/or data engineering experience working with life science clients
• Strong knowledge of AI technologies and frameworks
• Working experience with industry leading methods of delivery for digital, data and analytic products
• Help set and execute governance for engagements including performance scorecards, RACI, manage risk/mitigation etc.

Practice development

• Serve as a part of a leadership team at EY focusing on all things customer in pharma and helping build the practice to achieve future vision and goals.
• Contribute actively to points-of-view, POCs, proposals and selling materials to help win and close deals across horizontals and use cases
• Identify opportunities where EY can push frontiers for pharma clients in the customer space

• Stay up to date with the latest pharma trends and evaluate state-of-the-art technologies/framework to drive innovation.
• Identify and develop new business opportunities within the life sciences domain.

Stakeholder management

• Foster strong relationships with clients, acting as a trusted advisor and advocate for their success.
• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to translate business asks to scalable, operable solutions

Team and People development

• Provide leadership and development for direct reports
• Recruit, develop, and retain a strategic and operationally capable workforce skilled and knowledgeable in pharma
• Effectively manage an agile organization that continuously meets the needs of a changing portfolio
• Build an organizational culture that fosters inclusion and innovation.
• Create an environment that fosters professional and career development. In partnership with line management, develop the team’s expertise in pharma, therapeutic area science, strategic thinking, project management and leadership
• Develop and mentor junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Put together development plan for team members and help plan career growth and opportunities for other team members
• Evaluate and manage performance for leaders and other team members

Skills and attributes for success

To excel in this role, you will need:

• Proven ability to construct and direct technology projects in line with organizational goals.
• Expertise in project and program delivery methodologies, with the ability to mentor others.
• Strong analytical skills to develop creative solutions for complex problems.
• Leadership skills to manage professional staff and supervise teams effectively.
• Strategic thinking to drive sales, business growth, and client satisfaction.

Experience: 

• 5-7 years of experience in python programming specializing in data handling, managing, ETL jobs
• 5-7 years of hands-on experience in querying data in cloud platforms such s AWS, Azure etc.
• 5-7 years of experience in building statistical forecast models for pharma industry
• Exposure to sourcing/automating data pulls using APIs from different platforms e.g. evaluate pharma, pricecentriq
• 5-7 Years of experience in leading report development and design
• Pharma forecast data exposure preferred. E.g. Exposure to IQVIA MIDAS, KANTAR, GLOBOCAN
• Understanding of Concepts and Metrics in forecasting funnel. E.g. Incidence, prevalence other Epi metrics, Units, patients, dosage, Line of therapy etc.

Skillsets:

• Visualization Tools: Power BI, Spotfire, Power Apps
• Data Manipulation & Analysis: SQL, Excel
• Programming Languages: Python
• Data Sources: Familiarity with relational databases, data lakes, and clinical trial data systems
• Cloud Platforms: AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda), Azure (Data Lake, Azure Functions)
• Programming Languages: Python (Dash, Pandas, NumPy), SQL
• DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Git, GitHub (good to have)
• Database Technologies: MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases
• Certification in AWS Solutions Architect / Microsoft Azure Data Engineer (good to have)
• Statistical Programming Languages: Python, R
• Libraries & Frameworks: Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, StatsModels, Tidyverse, caret
• Data Manipulation Tools: SQL, Excel
• Data Visualization Tools: Matplotlib, Seaborn, ggplot2,
• Machine Learning Techniques: Supervised and unsupervised learning, model evaluation (cross-validation, ROC curves)

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree preferably a business degree.
• 4 to 6 years+ of relevant experience in delivering client engagements across sizes and geographies with deep expertise in Pharma commercial industry
• Specialized skills in Data Fabric, Data Governance, Enterprise IT Architecture, and other data management disciplines
• Well-developed business acumen and strong problem-solving attitude with the ability to visualize scenarios, possible outcomes & operating constraints.
• Good communication skills both written and oral, ability to make impactful presentations & expertise at using excel & PPTs.
• A trusted advisor to our clients, guiding them through the entire customer transformation journey, from strategy development to implementation
• Familiarity with current techno-commercial context and ability to integrate technology thinking into customer solutioning
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to scale engagements at will

Ideally, you’ll also have

• A proactive approach to identifying and solving client issues.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills to guide teams and interact with clients.

What we look for

We are seeking top performers who demonstrate creativity in solving complex problems, have a track record of leading successful projects, and can navigate the intricacies of client and team management. Ideal candidates will bring a blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership skills to drive innovation and excellence in our Data Management & Strategy practice.

FY25NATAID

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.