Assistant Manager- Competitive intelligence | Market intelligence (Healthcare - Gurgaon)

WNS; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI-powered company in Gurugram is seeking an experienced Assistant Manager to gather scientific and competitive intelligence in the consumer healthcare sector. The candidate should have 5-8 years of experience in Pharmaceutical Business Research, with a strong capability in secondary research and report writing. This role involves conducting detailed analysis for market landscape and competitor strategies, while promoting effective team collaboration. The position offers a hybrid work mode, requiring 2 days in office and 3 days working from home.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years experience in Consumer Healthcare or Pharmaceutical Business Research.
• Proven strengths in literature analysis and competitor insights.

Responsibilities

• Gather scientific and competitive intelligence for consumer healthcare.
• Conduct secondary searches for analysis and reporting.
• Execute projects including market landscape and competitor strategy analysis.

Skills

Secondary research expertise

OTC/Consumer/Pharma knowledge

Report writing skills

MS Office proficiency

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's and Master’s in Pharmaceuticals

M.Pharm with oral care experience

Tools

MS Office

Databases

Job description

Overview

Company Description WNS, part of Capgemini, is an Agentic AI-powered leader in intelligent operations and transformation, serving more than 700 clients across 10 industries, including Banking and Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Shipping and Logistics, and Travel and Hospitality. We bring together deep domain excellence – WNS’ core differentiator – with AI-powered platforms and analytics to help businesses innovate, scale, adapt and build resilience in a world defined by disruption. Our purpose is to enable lasting business value by designing intelligent, human-led solutions that deliver sustainable outcomes and a differentiated impact. With three global headquarters across four continents, operations in 13 countries, 65 delivery centers and more than 66,000 employees, WNS combines scale, expertise and execution to create meaningful, measurable impact.

Job Title: Assistant Manager

Work Location: Gurgaon

Experience: 5-8 years for A/SA of post-qualification experience in Consumer Healthcare or Pharmaceutical Business Research/KPO

Qualification:

• Respiratory/Pain/Digestive Health/Skin Health: Bachelor's and Master’s in Pharmaceuticals with relevant post-qualification experience in the scientific and business research space
• Oral Health: M.Pharm with oral care/consumer health experience

Responsibilities

• Gathering scientific and competitive intelligence for consumer healthcare to generate solutions/answers relevant to clients' key intelligent questions.
• Conducting detailed secondary searches for identification, analysis and reporting of project-relevant data to derive meaningful/actionable insights.
• Typical projects include market landscape, company profiling, novel product launches, competitor strategy analysis, scientific literature analysis.
• Execution of short-turnaround and long-term projects.

Key Performance Indicators

• People Related: Team work - Collaborate with the team, good interpersonal communication, professional conduct, actively participate in team related activities
• Process Related:
  • Domain Expertise: Demonstrating expertise or quickly gaining knowledge and building expertise in an area of interest
  • Efficiency: Effective retrieval of information by identifying relevant data sources, formulating efficient search strategies, critically evaluate information and organize data for analysis
  • Accuracy: Ability to assess validity of sources, accuracy of information gathered, data gaps if any and steps to plug in the data gaps
  • Presentation of reports: Good scientific writing with well-structured and formatted content, correct usage of English language, usage of right templates and audience-appropriate representations
• Must have:
  • Expertise in secondary research with experience in using databases and open sources
  • Clear understanding and exposure to OTC/Consumer/Pharma healthcare space, demonstrate clear acumen in competitive intelligence, scientific and business research
  • Proven strengths/clear aptitude in performing literature analysis and deriving competitor insights through clinical trials, pipeline analysis, business and market assessment
  • Report writing skills - creating reports that offer contextually relevant insights
  • Knowledge on MS Office (esp. PowerPoint and basic Excel) and Internet searching skills are mandatory
  • Core behaviors: Taking ownership/ accountability, Flexibility to work on cross-team projects, Attention to details, Clear/concise and effective communication, Critical thinking, Self-motivated, able to work autonomously
• Good to have:
  • Awareness of market landscape, current developments, leading players, clinical research and products
  • Understanding of the regulatory climate relevant to OTC/Rx space, especially in US/Europe

Work mode

2 days WFO and 3 days WFH

Time: General Shift