Senior Knowledge Analyst

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Practice Area

Inspiring the bold who advance the health of care.BCG s global Health Care team works across the health care ecosystem to deliver sustainable competitive advantage for our clients, to create value for society, and to improve outcomes for patients. And we are passionate about it. We are committed to developing new insights and, through our customized approach, helping organizations navigate rapid change in today s digital world. Our global health care team serves top companies across the health care industry - including biopharmaceuticals, medical technologies and devices, health care providers, payers, services, and global health. BCG s Health Care Practice is the third largest industry practice globally, and second in the US.

What Youll Do

As a Senior Knowledge Analyst (SKA) within BCGs Healthcare Practice Area, India market, you will work in a growing team, delivering value to clients via individual expertise and/or institutionalized knowledge assets (products, tools, data, workshops, frameworks, surveys, domain-specific data and related expertise, etc.). You will contribute on cases and proposals by contributing relevant analysis and insights and help case teams create strong impact for the client. While contributing to client cases, workshops and proposals, occasional travel to serve clients onsite during staffing assignments is expected to understand client requirements, and design / develop solutions.

You will support commercialization efforts for the topic/sector working, in conjunction with business leaders, through contributing analysis and insights to proposals, client workshops and marketing materials. Additionally, as a Senior Knowledge Analyst, you will contribute to developing intellectual property assets for the business and assist in onboarding and training junior colleagues based on your topic/sector expertise.

The candidate will be part of the India Healthcare practice area (PA) and will focus on India Healthcare market within the PA. She/He is expected to support the some or all the following industrial topics: GTM, market analysis, peer group analysis, company analysis, product development/RD, product commercialization, launch optimization, launch excellence, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, digital in healthcare OPS, etc.

What Youll Bring

• Master s degree in Pharmaceuticals and/or Lifesciences Stream or Business
• Overall 5+ years experience in consulting preferably for life sciences/pharmaceuticals vertical, focused on India market
• Familiarity with commonly used health care and life sciences databases and sources
• Understanding of pharmaceutical generics and biosimilar products through pharmaceutical value chain
• Fluency in English; other languages requested in certain locations
• Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Good to have
  • 3+ years manufacturing industry experience or 3+ years operations consulting experience will be a plus
  • Knowledge and experience related to deployment of lean principles and tools in manufacturing
  • Familiarity with the supply chain and procurement complexities of the pharmaceutical market will be an added advantage
  • Should have working knowledge of pharmaceuticals operating model strategy, lean management, shared services, and intelligent process automation
  • Prior exposure to mid to large-scale operations transformation/efficiency improvement cases in pharmaceuticals/healthcare industry preferred

Who Youll Work With

You will work face to face with clients and with BCG Project Leaders, Associates and Consultants. In the period between cases, you will collaborate with global topic leads and colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities to the service of our internal and external clients. Our team is made up a diverse pool of knowledge positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative knowledge careers.

Additional info

The Knowledge Team (KT) is a group of functional and/or industry experts leveraging deep domain knowledge to enable insight for case teams and clients. KT members are affiliated to BCG Practice Areas, plugged into the strategic agenda and building and deploying leading edge IP data tools/assets to deliver insight.

BCGs Knowledge Team members have the opportunity to be staffed on cases and help co-create insights with case teams and clients through expert perspectives on industry trends, delivery of proprietary data or tools in a particular function and complex research and analysis of market information. KT members also support the PAs business development and proposals and help to organize and codify the knowledge that enables BCG to deliver superior business value for its clients.

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