Hiring for Pharma Analytics role

Overview

Analytics Function Overview

The Analytics function focuses on delivering enterprise-scale data products, commercial analytics, and decision-support solutions to leading global pharmaceutical companies. The function enables business-driven analytics across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, and Executive leadership by translating complex business needs into standardized, scalable, and actionable data and analytics solutions.

Designation

Group Manager Business Analysis & Consulting plays a leadership role in shaping analytics and data product requirements, driving stakeholder engagement, and ensuring business needs are effectively translated into technical and delivery-ready artifacts across data engineering, reporting, and advanced analytics initiatives.

Experience : 3-9 years

Roles and Responsibilities Summary

• Lead end-to-end business analysis and consulting engagements across pharma commercial analytics and data product initiatives
• Act as the primary interface between business stakeholders and technical teams (data engineering, reporting, analytics)
• Drive requirements discovery through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and working sessions across global and regional teams
• Bring strong consulting mindset to challenge, refine, and shape business requirements into value-driven analytics use cases
• Translate business questions into clear, structured, and actionable deliverables such as business requirement documents (BRDs), functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Define analytics use cases, KPIs, metrics, and data product requirements in collaboration with business, governance, and technical teams
• Support design of standardized, reusable, and scalable data products aligned to commercial analytics needs
• Ensure alignment of business requirements with data models, ingestion strategies, reporting layers and downstream consumption
• Partner with client stakeholders across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, and Corporate functions to understand priorities and roadmap requirements
• Drive requirement traceability from discovery through build, UAT, and production rollout
• Support UAT planning, execution, defect triage, and business sign-off
• Own stakeholder communication, expectation management, and delivery alignment
• Mentor and guide junior business analysts and contribute to analytics and data product best practices
• Contribute to accelerators, templates, and standard approaches for pharma analytics delivery

Core Competencies

Business & Functional Skills

• Strong expertise in business analysis for pharma commercial analytics and data products
• Deep understanding of analytics requirements across Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Omnichannel, and Executive reporting
• Ability to structure ambiguous business problems into clear analytical and data-driven requirements
• Strong experience in requirements gathering, stakeholder interviews, and facilitation workshops
• Ability to convert business needs into technical, actionable, and delivery-ready specifications

Domain Expertise

• Deep life sciences and pharmaceutical commercial analytics experience
• Strong understanding of pharma data domains and sources such as IQVIA, Claims, CRM (Veeva), Digital, Hub/SP, and Internal Sales data
• Experience working on use cases such as Brand Performance, Field Force Effectiveness, GTN, Omnichannel Analytics, Market Access, and Patient Journey
• Ability to align data products and analytics outputs with business decision-making and strategic objectives

Technical & Delivery Awareness

• Strong understanding of data platforms, analytics ecosystems, and reporting architectures
• Working knowledge of cloud data platforms (Snowflake, dbt, cloud data warehouses preferred)
• Ability to collaborate effectively with data engineering, reporting, and analytics teams
• Familiarity with agile delivery models, backlog management, and sprint-based execution

Leadership & Behavioral Skills

• Strong client-facing communication skills (verbal and written) with senior stakeholders
• Proven experience leading and mentoring teams of business analysts
• Strong consulting mindset with the ability to influence, challenge, and guide stakeholders
• High attention to detail with a structured and quality-driven approach
• Ability to operate in complex, multi-stakeholder, and fast-paced environments
• Strong planning, prioritization, and execution discipline
• Collaborative mindset with strong cross-functional working capability

Must-Have Skills

• Pharma commercial analytics domain expertise
• Strong requirements gathering and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to translate business needs into technical and analytical deliverables
• Experience working closely with data engineering and BI teams
• Strong documentation and communication skills (BRDs, functional specs, user stories)
• Experience leading business analysis teams
• MS Excel and MS PowerPoint for executive communication

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience working on enterprise data products and analytics platforms
• Exposure to self-service analytics and AI-enabled analytics use cases
• Knowledge of specific therapeutic areas
• Experience with Alteryx or similar data preparation tools
• Exposure to data governance, KPI governance, and metadata management
• Experience working on large-scale transformation or modernization programs

Highest Education

Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering, Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics, Business Admnistration or a related quantitative discipline

Strong academic background with analytics and data-focused coursework