Senior Analyst - Commercial Strategy

Location: Jersey City,New Jersey,United States

About You Do you want to be part of building and shaping the successful pharma brands of the future?Are you passionate about understanding why customers and patients behave like they do and applying this to brand strategy?Do you want to work across a mix of strategy consulting projects that draw from competitor, customer, medical and commercial insights?Are you a highly motivated professional interested in being part of a dynamic team of self-starters, working with global healthcare and pharmaceutical clients across the full product life cycle?  Prescient is looking for bright, ambitious Senior Analysts to join our Commercial Practice team in Jersey City, NJ.  Do you have:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills that you can apply to building successful brand strategies?
• A passion for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry?
• Enthusiasm for working and achieving as part of a team?
• Great interpersonal skills?
• A strong focus on quality work, and a commitment to delivering to a deadline?

If so, consider turning your expertise into a valuable career at Prescient. About Our Commercial Practice Prescient has 3 core practices: Commercial, Competitor Intelligence and Medical.  We specialize in supporting our biopharma clients in making insightful strategic choices for their products and portfolios. We bring together a unique blend of skills and experiences which are required to drive winning strategies.  The Commercial Practice is on an exciting journey to expand our customer-centric team in the US market to better serve our US-based global and domestic clients. When you join this exciting venture, you will be working with global healthcare and pharmaceutical clients across the full product life cycle, to help them unlock the full potential of their brands. The Commercial Practice specializes in the following project types: Brand strategy; brand positioning, value proposition and brand story development; disease area and portfolio strategy; life cycle management planning; new product planning; competitor strategy; workshop facilitation; and strategic customer research. About the Opportunity In the Senior Analyst role, you will continue to build up your expertise in market research and commercial strategy, while building confidence in playing a more active role in client interactions.  With support and guidance from experienced colleagues, you will play an important end-to-end role throughout projects, designing research methodologies, conducting in-depth analysis, and contributing to project deliverables of low-moderate complexity Key Responsibilities: 

• Professionalism: Act with 100% professionalism at all times, demonstrating high levels of respect, integrity and support for colleagues and in our interactions with clients
• Ownership: Take pride in and full responsibility for meeting high levels of performance in work process and output; take charge of own professional development and proactively seek opportunities for growth
• Learning Agility: Demonstrate a strong willingness to learn and a 'can-do' attitude; showcase ability to gain expert status on a new topic and create an impact within the team and with clients
• Effective Time Management: Demonstrate an ability to thrive in an environment through efficient forward planning and proactivity
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Demonstrate an ability and willingness to take risks, work in a non-hierarchical environment and take step-up/step-down roles to support strong outcomes
• Ethical Behavior: Act as a role model in line with company and client codes of ethics and processes; represent the company and promote its reputation to a high standard

Required Experience and Skills:

• Relevant bachelor’s degree or advanced degree – this should include life sciences, possibly with business/marketing component
• 2+ years of experience in consulting, strategic customer research or brand strategy is required 
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office applications, specifically PowerPoint, Excel and Word

What We Offer

• Highly competitive base salary plus Performance Related Bonus, 401K matching and Health & Dental benefits
• A strong values-based culture which is actively lived and promoted
• A team made up of smart and supportive people
• Leaders who are accessible and listen, ambitious for our teams, committed to coaching and sharing their expertise
• An environment where our thinking and our work are all innovative, imaginative and bright
• On-going and tailored career development that stretches you and is based on your ambition, abilities and i