Remote Business Analyst - R&D, Drug Discovery

Insight Global; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Business Analyst for a large pharmaceutical company, focusing on Research/Drug Discovery Technology and data product builds. This role requires extensive experience in scientist-end user requirements, data product development, and cross-functional project work in a pharmaceutical context.

Responsibilities include partnering with scientists and IT teams, analyzing current landscapes, and delivering actionable technical work packages within an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in enterprise pharmaceutical clients.
• Drug discovery/research pharmaceutical domain experience.
• Data product build.
• Requirements gathering, technical documentation, and delivery of technical products.
• Experience working within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, chemistry, or scientific R&D environments.
• Knowledge of chemistry and/or chemical synthesis (highly preferred).

Responsibilities

• Partner with scientists, R&D stakeholders, IT, data science, software development, DevOps, and other technical teams.
• Analyze and document the current landscape across processes, systems, data sources/data warehouses, teams, resources, dependencies, and existing work packages.
• Identify gaps, inefficiencies, technical needs, and opportunities within workflows supporting the drug-discovery lifecycle.
• Translate complex scientific and business challenges into clear, executable technical work packages.
• Break large or ambiguous problems into smaller initiatives with defined requirements, ownership, dependencies, priorities, and expected outcomes.
• Determine the delivery path for initiatives across software development, IT, DevOps, data science, or other technical teams.
• Facilitate conversations across business, scientific, and technical stakeholders to maintain alignment.
• Operate within an Agile, iterative delivery environment.
• Establish documentation and traceability so progress, deliverables, and outcomes can be clearly communicated to leadership.
• Help drive tangible progress that can be demonstrated to senior leadership on a three-month cadence.

Skills

5+ years experience as BA

Drug discovery domain

Data product build

Requirements gathering

Pharma/R&D environments

Chemistry knowledge

Job description

Title: Business Analyst - R&D, Drug Discovery

Duration: Contract through the year and then yearly contract with extensions for next 3 years

Location: Remote

Schedule: M–F, regular working hours

JOB DESCRIPTION

Insight Global is currently seeking a Business Analyst for a large pharmaceutical company. This person will be joining a group responsible for Research/Drug Discovery Technology including build, implementation, and enhancement of technologies enabling this process. This project will focus on the build of scalable data products including data foundation, requirements gathering, delivery with engineering teams, and enhancement/changes needed based on the technical landscape. This person should have extensive experience with scientist end user requirement gathering, data product builds, and cross-functional project work.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with scientists, R&D stakeholders, IT, data science, software development, DevOps, and other technical teams to understand business and scientific objectives.
• Analyze and document the current landscape across processes, systems, data sources/data warehouses, teams, resources, dependencies, and existing work packages.
• Identify gaps, inefficiencies, technical needs, and opportunities within workflows supporting the creation of physical compounds during the drug-discovery lifecycle.
• Translate complex scientific and business challenges into clear, executable technical work packages.
• Break large or ambiguous problems into smaller, manageable initiatives with defined requirements, ownership, dependencies, priorities, and expected outcomes.
• Determine the appropriate delivery path for identified work, including whether initiatives should sit with software development, IT, DevOps, data science, or other technical teams.
• Facilitate conversations across business, scientific, and technical stakeholders to maintain alignment and move initiatives forward.
• Operate within an Agile, iterative delivery environment, emphasizing incremental progress rather than lengthy waterfall-style requirements exercises.
• Establish appropriate documentation and traceability so progress, deliverables, and outcomes can be clearly communicated to leadership.
• Help drive tangible progress that can be demonstrated to senior leadership on an approximately three-month cadence.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in enterprise pharmaceutical clients
• Drug discovery/research pharmaceutical domain experience
• Data product build
• Requirements gathering, technical documentation, and delivery of technical products
• Experience working within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, chemistry, or scientific R&D environments.
• Knowledge of chemistry and/or chemical synthesis (Highly preferred)

Compensation

$50-75/hr

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.