Senior Consultant - Life Science

Job Summary

Life Science Consultant:

We are seeking a highly skilled Sr. Consultant to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in the LifeScience domain and will be responsible for providing expert guidance and solutions to our clients. This role requires a deep understanding of industry best practices and the ability to drive impactful results in Supply chain, commercial, R&D, Product Owner, Product Manager.

Key Skills Required in either of the below domain:

• Pharma R&D domain OR

• Pharma Manufacturing & Supply Chain domain OR

• Pharma Commercial domain

Requirements Gathering

o Demonstrate exceptional requirement-gathering skills, leveraging clear direction from engagement management. Lead requirement gathering sessions. Organize and sequence requirements into a user requirements document. Write well-formed, validated requirements and manage changes by creating user stories. Use appropriate tools to record, track and manage requirements like Azure Devops, Jira, etc.

Business Analysis:

o Review and analyze relevant documentation to ensure the understanding of an organizations function and capabilities.

o Conduct relevant research to increase understanding in support of developing comprehensive solutions.

o Logically structure recommendations and supporting data to formulate a solid, logical, and understandable business case.

o Utilize appropriate business modeling techniques to represent and graphically depict various activities, processes, and data. These could include: Business process modeling Process flow modeling Data flow modeling Stakeholder analysis.

• Agile Roles: Conversant with Agile methodologies of project / product development along with the related phases and ceremonies. Prior experience as a scrum master, product owner, RTE, product manager. Having relevant certifications will be an advantage (CSPO, CSM, SAFe etc.)
• Project and Program Management: Perform the PMO functions to improve success of the project / program. Prior experience as a business project manager, business program manager Having relevant certifications will be an advantage (PMP etc.)
• Business Development and Strategy: Hands-on experience in Go-To-Market strategy formulation, business planning and business strategy. Support Cognizant leadership in the development of RFIs, RFPs and Service offerings Customer Relationship Management and build and maintain strong relationships at different levels of the client organizations.
• Domain Consulting: Strategy consulting, Organization Change Management (OCM), Digital Transformation, SOP creation,Market Assessment.

• Should be able to lead large teams or work as an individual contributor.
• Should be able to suggest new thoughts and ideas and implement them.
• Business development experience (contributed to or led responses to solicited RFPs and proactive proposals).
• Should have an excellent grasp of Lifesciences market, Lifesciences industry s competitive landscape, key Lifesciences IT players and market control points.
• Should have successfully delivered technology and advisory consulting assignments.
• Excellent verbal, and written communication, problem solving approach, out of the box thinking, stakeholder management. Experience with MS Visio and PowerPoint will be an advantage.
• Lead in the development, research and design of consulting and domain mindshare such as: articles, whitepapers, collateral development, infographics, leadership forums, collaboration sessions, Yammer, etc and any leadership initiative/ collaborations