Director

Axtria - Ingenious Insights; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Axtria - Ingenious Insights in Bengaluru, India, seeks a senior data science delivery leader to own end-to-end pharma analytics engagements, ensuring quality, timelines, and business impact.

You will manage senior stakeholders, mentor a large data science team, drive program governance, and collaborate with sales for pre-sales, while expanding analytics offerings within existing accounts.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of proven experience in Advanced Analytics or Machine Learning.
• OR
• Master’s degree in ML / Statistics / Econometrics, or related discipline from Tier 1 college with 12+ years of experience

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of data science engagements for pharma commercial clients, ensuring quality, timelines, and business impact.
• Manage senior client/onshore stakeholders (D/ED/VP/CxO level) to build trusted advisory relationships and drive account growth.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a large team of data scientists, managers, and leads; define team structure, career paths, and capability-building plans.
• Drive program governance – resource planning, risk management, quality assurance, and adherence to delivery SLAs/KPIs across multiple engagements.
• Partner with sales and account teams on pre-sales – solutioning, RFP/RFI responses, proposal development, effort estimation, and pricing.
• Identify opportunities for account mining, cross-sell/up-sell of analytics and AI/Gen AI offerings within existing pharma accounts.
• Collaborate with technology, platform, and consulting teams to align data science delivery with Axtria's broader product and consulting roadmap.
• Institutionalize best practices, delivery frameworks, and reusable accelerators to improve speed-to-value across engagements.

Skills

Data science

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Delivery governance

Pre-sales

Client relationship

Analytics strategy

Education

B.Tech / BE in Computer Science or Computer Applications (Tier 1 college)

MSc in ML / Statistics / Econometrics (Tier 1 college)

Tools

Python

R

ML frameworks

Job description

Job Responsibilities: -

• Own end-to-end delivery of data science engagements for pharma commercial clients, ensuring quality, timelines, and business impact.
• Manage senior client/onshore stakeholders (D/ED/VP/CxO level) to build trusted advisory relationships and drive account growth.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a large team of data scientists, managers, and leads; define team structure, career paths, and capability-building plans.
• Drive program governance – resource planning, risk management, quality assurance, and adherence to delivery SLAs/KPIs across multiple engagements.
• Partner with sales and account teams on pre-sales – solutioning, RFP/RFI responses, proposal development, effort estimation, and pricing.
• Identify opportunities for account mining, cross-sell/up-sell of analytics and AI/Gen AI offerings within existing pharma accounts.
• Collaborate with technology, platform, and consulting teams to align data science delivery with Axtria's broader product and consulting roadmap.
• Institutionalize best practices, delivery frameworks, and reusable accelerators to improve speed-to-value across engagements.

Qualification: -

• B-Tech or BE in Computer Science / Computer Applications from Tier 1 college with 12+ years of proven experience in the field of Advanced Analytics or Machine Learning
• OR
• Master’s degree in Machine Learning / Statistics / Econometrics, or related discipline from Tier 1 college with 12+ years of experience