Senior Consultant

Jobaaj Com; Dadri, Pune District, Chennai; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

ZoomRx is seeking a Senior Consultant to lead complex market research projects for top pharma and biotech clients. You will translate client needs into actionable plans, manage cross-border teams, and deliver data-driven narratives for senior management.

You will develop detailed project plans, review analytics, mentor colleagues, and contribute to internal initiatives that enhance market intelligence capabilities. Expect to handle 5–7 projects concurrently with varying complexity.

Qualifications

• Degree in life-sciences or a quantitative discipline.
• 5 to 7 years of work experience in market research, business analytics, or consulting.
• Confidence in preparing and delivering analytically robust, data-driven strategic stories.

Responsibilities

• Lead project teams as a senior consultant and coordinate with the US team.
• Develop detailed project plans and track progress against them.
• Review data and analytical insights to craft compelling stories for senior management.
• Mentor team members and support knowledge transfer within the delivery unit.
• Participate in client discussions, clarify requirements, and present sections of the content.

Skills

Life sciences background

Quantitative discipline

Data-driven storytelling

Project leadership

Market research

Education

Life sciences or quantitative degree

Job description

Role & responsibilities

What will you be a part of?

Consulting India works with drug commercialization teams at top pharma and biotech companies to understand their complex business needs and help them make informed decisions. The team creates strategic narratives for senior management teams of blockbuster drugs by designing and executing custom market research studies, conceiving new data analysis methods, and drawing insights from complex datasets.

What does your day look like as a Senior Consultant?

Senior Consultants play the role of the project leads within the Consulting team, and are expected to:

• Collaborate efficiently with the US team/counterparts to gain an in-depth understanding of client needs and problems.
• Develop detailed project plans and own tracking against it.
• Facilitate smooth flow of information and knowledge transfer between the various stakeholders involved in the end-to-end project process.
• Review project data and analytical insights to draft powerful stories.
• Debottleneck and smoothen out project operations by intervening at key inflection points.

On a day-to-day basis, you are involved in the following activities:

• Tracking daily activities against the project plan
• Translate US team/client requirements into actionable plans for their project delivery teams and clarify challenges and expectations when required
• Prepare and review meeting content
• Participate in client discussions by asking clarifying questions as well as answering a few questions directly or leading some sections of the presentation or content
• Building functional capability, improving efficiency and process adherence within their team / Delivery unit
• Removing and reducing bottlenecks to ensure smooth and efficient delivery of projects
• Mentor and coach the team members on elements they need to improve on
• Participate and contribute to internal initiatives that will benefit the BA community and its capability
• You are expected to build specialized knowledge on the primary market research instruments, healthcare industry, and therapeutic areas that are relevant to ZoomRxs clients
• At any given time, you are expected to work on ~5-7 average-sized projects where 3-4 could be unstructured and high-touch while the remaining could be more structured and standardized.

What will make you successful as a Senior Consultant candidate?

• A degree in life-sciences related/or a quantitative discipline (engineering, economics, business, statistics, mathematics).
• 5 to 7 years of work experience in market research, business analytics, or consulting domain.
• Confidence in preparing and delivering analytically robust, data-driven strategic stories
• Demonstrated experience in preparing and delivering analytically robust, data-driven strategic stories.
• Experience leading project teams.

Preferred candidate profile:

• Experience in additional healthcare market intelligence functions besides primary market research (competitive intelligence; sales analytics; forecasting; etc.)
• Experience in qualitative market research
• Experience in Life Sciences or Healthcare industries

Why should you choose ZoomRx?

• You will have wide-reaching creative control and the power to make impactful decisions. At ZoomRx, we favour collaboration over hierarchy.
• You will develop deep expertise in a wide range of topics within life sciences by drawing on existing knowledge bases while building new ones.
• You will work with smart, grounded peers who are experts in their own right and thrive on the camaraderie of working in high-performance, intelligent, impactful teams.
• You will join a vertically integrated organisation - with our own business consulting team, cutting-edge technology platform, and robust panels of healthcare professionals - empowered to provide our clients with highly tailored, fast, effective solutions that other consultancies cannot.