Managing Consultant - Life Sciences Data & Analytics

Guidehouse Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse Inc. is seeking a Managing Consultant for the Life Sciences team in the Strategy & Transformation Consulting group.

The role focuses on commercial insights, data analytics, and strategy for pharmaceutical and biotech clients, collaborating with Data and Technology Transformation teams to expand data services offerings. Candidates should be market-facing self-starters who own their work, collaborate across projects, and translate business questions into analytics plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; four years of additional professional experience in lieu of a degree.
• Four or more years in Life Sciences industry, management consulting, and/or data vendor experience; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience in data-driven consulting functions such as data analytics, launch planning, and market access is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency with Excel/Access to guide decision making.
• Willingness to travel to client sites across the US up to 20%.
• Authorized to work for any US employer without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Translate client business questions into analytics plans, including cross-sectional, longitudinal, and inferential analyses.
• Summarize data insights for stakeholders with a strategic lens and clear communication.
• Leverage commercial and real-world datasets (claims, formulary, EMR) for insights.
• Lead discussions to define project requirements, scope, and tailored analytics solutions.
• Serve as an intermediary between data scientists and clients to shape engagements.
• Design data-driven engagements, including market sizing, provider profiling, and epidemiology studies.
• Collaborate with strategy and data science teams to execute data-driven projects.
• Develop client proposals, presentations, memos, and reports; work autonomously with oversight.

Skills

Life sciences industry experience

Management consulting

Data analytics

Excel/Access

Client-facing

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA/PhD/ PharmD /MD

Tools

SQL

R

Python

Snowflake

Job description

Job Family : Strategy & Transformation Consulting

Travel Required : Up to 10%

Clearance Required : None

What You Will Do:

We are looking for a Managing Consultant to join our Life Sciences team, which supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies with commercial insights and strategy as well as data and business analytics. This role will be a primary member of our Life Science advisory team, and collaborate closely with our firmwide Data, Advanced Analytics, and Technology Transformation teams to shape the growth of our Life Science data services offerings.

Candidates should be market-facing self-starters who take ownership of their work, are enthusiastic, and have a collaborative mindset to support our efforts to sell and provide consulting solutions. You will coordinate activities across multiple projects and provide experience-based insight across strategy, commercial analytics, and data-driven solution design.

As a Life Science Managing Consultant, you will:

• Translate client's key business questions and structuring/executing comprehensive analytics plans to provide necessary insights (e.g., cross-sectional analyses, longitudinal studies, inferential statistics, and structured decision support).
• Convey and summarize detailed data insights through a strategic lens that is understandable and actionable by cross-functional internal/external stakeholders.
• Leverage various commercial and real-world evidence datasets to drive insights that address client business problems, which include but are not limited to medical and pharmacy claims (open and closed), formulary and managed care data, and EMR data.
• Utilize datasets across multiple third-party data vendors, which include but are not limited to IQVIA, Komodo, Compile, MMIT/Norstella, Symphony Health, Truven/Merative, and Definitive Healthcare.
• Lead internal and external discussions to understand and generate project requirements, scope, and develop client-tailored analytical solutions.
• Shape data-driven engagements by serving as an intermediary between data scientists and clients.
• Understand and analyze client business challenges and match them to firm and/or third-party data and analytic capabilities.
• Work with strategy consulting teams and data science teams to design and execute data-driven projects, such as market sizing/segmentation, patient journey, provider profiling/targeting, provider affiliation mapping, epidemiology studies, managed care analytics, pull-through modeling/program design, forecasting, field force design, KPI/performance tracking, and incentive comp.
• Help design and lead the development of new solutions/services firmwide.
• Apply strong analytical and problem-solving skills to translate business requirements into technology solutions.
• Provide support across multiple client engagements; develop presentations, briefings, memos, and reports. Should be able to work independently but with oversight from management.
• Prioritize and handle multiple tasks, research, and analyze pertinent client, industry and technical matters, utilize problem-solving skills, and communicate effectively in written and verbal formats to various audiences (including multiple levels of management and external clients) in a professional business environment.
• Experience in managing independent as well as integrated project modules including ownership of workstreams and coaching/mentoring others.
• Present proposals and deliverables during meetings, summits, and working sessions with senior client executives.
• Support managing contract budgets, developing and sharing best practices, and evolving Guidehouse's data and analytics capabilities.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's Degree; FOUR (4) years of additional professional experience in lieu of Bachelor's
• FOUR (4+) years of Life Sciences industry, management consulting, and/or data vendor experience is required, plus advanced degree MBA, PhD, PharmD or MD.
• Experience in commercial management consulting functions such as portfolio and asset strategy, data/commercial analytics, launch excellence & brand planning, patient services and market access is a plus.
• Must possess strong analytical skills (Excel, Access, etc.) and leverage analytic techniques to use data to guide client and team decision-making.
• Must have advanced data collection, research, and information-finding experience and explore solutions that challenge critical thinking.
• 3+ years of experience in business & data analytics.
• Experience with sophisticated drug forecasting techniques.
• Must be willing to travel to client sites across the US up to 20% of the time.
• Authorized to work for any US employer without sponsorship.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Advanced degree, MBA, Information Systems, Healthcare Management, Innovation and entrepreneurship, or similar quantitative discipline.
• In-line and pipeline forecasting and NPV modeling.
• Technical/product management and software experience.
• Experience with common analytic toolsets such as SQL, R, Python, Snowflake.
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