Associate Manager – Competitive Intelligence Pharma

C5i; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Course5 Intelligence seeks an Assistant Manager to support client projects, storyboard engagement, and coach analysts as the knowledge base grows in defined therapy areas.

The role emphasizes building market and competitive insights from diverse data sources, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and delivering polished outputs for clients.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of pharmaceutical competitive intelligence experience.
• High proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical business from commercial and clinical perspectives.
• Experience with pharmaceutical databases (Citeline, Trialtrove, Factiva) and the ability to apply them to projects.
• Excellent written and verbal English skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to projects in competitive intelligence, conference coverage, and market assessments.
• Attend client calls to understand project objectives and align deliverables with KITs and KIQs.
• Leverage sources and tools and bring innovative data collection approaches.
• Develop meaningful insights and recommendations from disparate data sets.
• Independently develop client-ready market/competitive landscape reports with clear visualizations.
• Assist in pre-, during-, and post-conference coverage reports.
• Quality check reports for accuracy and relevance.
• Support training and onboarding of new team members.
• Provide effective support to managers during client presentations and proposals.
• Potentially grow into managing multiple reports and mentoring junior team members.

Skills

Pharmaceutical competitive intel

Strong analytical skills

Excellent written and verbal English

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem scoping / effort estimation

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Citeline

Trial Trove

Factiva

Job description

OVERVIEW

About Course5 Intelligence – www.course5i.comCourse5 Intelligence enables organizations to make the most effective strategic and tactical moves relating to their customers, markets, and competition at the rapid pace that the digital business world demands. We do this by driving digital transformation through analytics, insights, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our clients experience higher top line and bottom line results with improved customer satisfaction and business agility. As we solve today’s problems for our clients, we also enable them to reshape their businesses to meet and actualize the future. Rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technology have enabled us to create disruptive technologies and accelerators under our Course5 Intelligence suites that combine analytics, digital, and research solutions to provide significant and long-term value to our clients.Course5 Intelligence creates value for businesses through synthesis of a variety of data and information sources in a 360-degree approach, solution toolkits and frameworks for specific business questions, deep industry and domain expertise, Digital Suite and Research AI to accelerate solutions, application of state-of the-art AI and next-generation technologies for cognitive automation and enhanced knowledge discovery, and a focus on actionable insight.

POSITION SUMMARY

The assistant manager will be key in ensuring deliverables are in-line with the business needs of the clients enabling the manager to contribute to effectively deriving implications. They will play an important role in contributing to the story-boarding of the project. He/she will support the coaching and professional development of analysts/sr. analysts. Person is expected to build a strong knowledge base and establish themselves as the go-to person for defined therapy areas, over a period of time

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide support to projects in the areas of competitor monitoring, conference coverage, market assessments etc.
• Participate by listening into client calls or other project briefings to understand the objective of the project; To be able to align the deliverable to the KITs and KIQs of the project
• Leverage the best available sources & tools and bring in innovative approaches for data collection and analysis
• Develop meaningful insights and recommendations from disparate data sets
• Independently develop periodic market landscape/ competitive landscape reports - Develop client-ready outputs (slides or documents) with the best suited data synthesis and convincing visualization to convey key messages
• For conference coverage – Assist in: pre-conference planning, in-conference reporting and developing post-conference reports
• Quality check reports and summaries for both accuracy and relevancy
• Support in training and onboarding new team members
• Provide effective support to managers and above during client presentations, proposals/ RFP
• Potentially grow into managing multiple reports and grooming junior members

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• 8+ years of pharmaceutical competitive intelligence experience
• Highly proficient in Microsoft suite (Excel, PowerPoint and Word)
• Very good understanding of pharmaceutical business from commercial and clinical development perspectives, of global pharmaceutical environment and challenges
• In-depth experience in working with pharmaceutical databases (Citeline, Trial trove, Factiva etc.) and the ability to judge their appropriate application to the project
• Strong analytical skills to grasp problems (complexity, context etc.), and ability to assist in the scoping the solution and effort estimation
• Ability to interface with cross-functional teams on a sound clinical and commercial base
• Superior communication ability to ensure that the scope of projects/initiatives and expectations are commonly understood
• Past experience of contributing to projects in but not limited to competitor monitoring, conference coverage, etc.
• Good comprehension ability, impeccable attention to detail and QC abilities
• Ability to think critically and work independently
• Good organizational, time management and priority setting skills, and the flexibility to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal English skills