Business Analyst, Life Sciences, Managing Consultant

Job Family:

Strategy & Transformation Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

Guidehouse is a leading management consulting firm serving the public and commercial markets.  We guide our clients towards new futures that build trust in society and your professional skills along the journey. 

We are looking for a Managing Consultant to join our Life Sciences team, which supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies with commercial insights, strategy, and implementation. This role will collaborate with our Life Science advisory teams, data teams, and our firmwide Advanced Analytics and Intelligent Automation team to shape the growth of our Life Science data services business.

Candidates should be market-facing self-starters who take ownership of their work, are enthusiastic, and have a collaborative mindset to support our efforts to sell and provide consulting solutions. You will coordinate activities across multiple projects and provide experience-based insight in management consulting, commercial analytics, and data-driven solution design.

Guidehouse seeks a Business Analyst to join our Life Science team. As a Life Science Business Analyst, you will: 

• Have experience designing commercial analytic plans and advanced modeling techniques.
  • Experience leveraging commercial datasets to drive insights that address client business problems, which include but are not limited to medical and pharmacy claims (open and closed), formulary and managed care data, and EMR data.  
  • Experience across multiple third-party data vendors, which include but are not limited to IQVIA, Komodo, Compile, MMIT/Norstella, Symphony Health, Truven/Merative, and Definitive Healthcare.
• Have a broad understanding of commercial pharma and real-world evidence datasets.
• Lead requirements-gathering sessions with internal and external stakeholders to shape client requirements and develop client-tailored analytical solutions.
• Shape data-driven engagements by serving as an intermediary between data scientists and clients.
• Understand and analyze client business challenges and match them to firm and/or third-party data and analytic capabilities.
• Work with consulting teams and data scientists to design and execute data-driven projects, such as market sizing/ segmentation, provider profiling/targeting, provider affiliation mapping, epidemiology studies, managed care analytics, pull-through modeling / program design, forecasting, field force design, and incentive comp.   
• Identify trends and opportunities for growth.
• Help design and lead the development of large-scale data analyses and new solutions/services.  
• Apply strong analytical and problem-solving skills to translate business requirements into technology solutions.

• Provide support across multiple client engagements; develop presentations, briefings, memos, and reports. Should be able to work independently but with oversight from management.
• Prioritize and handle multiple tasks, research, and analyze pertinent client, industry and technical matters, utilize problem-solving skills, and communicate effectively in written and verbal formats to various audiences (including multiple levels of management and external clients) in a professional business environment. 
• Experience in managing independent as well as integrated project modules including ownership of workstreams and coaching/mentoring others.  
• Present proposals and deliverables during meetings, summits, and working sessions with senior client executives. 

What You Will Need:

Minimum Security Clearance: Must be a US Citizen

Minimum Years of Experience: 5

Travel:  Must be willing to travel to client sites across the US up to 20% of the time

• Minimum Education: bachelor’s degree. 5 years of Life Sciences industry, management consulting, and/or data vendor experience is required. Experience in commercial management consulting functions such as portfolio and asset strategy, launch excellence & brand planning, patient services and market access is a plus.   
• Must possess strong analytical skills (Excel, Access, etc.) and leverage analytic techniques to use data to guide client and team decision-making.
• Must have advanced data collection, research, and information-finding experience and explore solutions that challenge critical thinking.
• 3+ years of experience in business & data analytics. This includes experience with requirement elicitation, documenting use cases and user stories, and exposure to IT project management.
• Experience with sophisticated drug forecasting techniques

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