Associate Engagement Manager, Competitive Strategy

Location: Jersey City,New Jersey,United States

About You

Have you decided biopharma consulting is for you? Are you looking to become the catalyst between clinical and commercial success? Prescient is looking for an Associate Engagement Manager to join our growing Competitive Strategy business in Jersey City, NJ, US. Do you have experience in and a passion for:

• Thorough knowledge of development and commercialisation aspects of the biopharmaceutical industry, especially in the US and EU?
• Experience supporting highly complex biosimilars, oncology or immunology projects?
• An excellent understanding of treatment paradigms, associated unmet needs and market trends?
• A creative and analytical mind with the ability and desire to source relevant insight through secondary data analytics and primary research?
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and the ability to operate effectively as part of a global team?

If so, consider turning your expertise into a valuable career at Prescient.

About Prescient Competitive Strategy 

Prescient Competitive Strategy, a Prescient Healthcare Group business, offers best-in-class biopharmaceutical intelligence by providing impactful insight and decision support to product and portfolio teams from early clinical development through to loss of exclusivity.

About the Opportunity

As an Associate Engagement Manager, your time will be divided as follows:

• 70% conducting secondary research
• 30% conducting primary research

You will be part of a fast-growing PE-backed business that allows high-performing employees to make an impact and contribute to growing the business. You will have the chance to channel your advanced degree into supporting the development and commercialisation of portfolios, assets and brands by integrating therapeutic, clinical and commercial expertise to ensure that clients are able to make confident decisions.

You will be responsible for supporting intelligence and insight engagements across our clients’ product and company life cycles, and for growing revenue within existing accounts. As your clients will be global, the Associate Engagement Manager position requires a thorough understanding of the evolving biopharmaceutical market and trends. Knowledge of drug development and commercialisation is also desirable.

• Reporting: You will report to a senior executive within Prescient’s London office
• Time Allocation: 80% of your time will be spent in office, with 20% spent on domestic or international travel (for client meetings, conferences and inter-office visits)

Key Responsibilities

• Evidence Generation: Manage and deliver the collection of data for projects through:
• Secondary Data Analytics: Source, analyse and report published information, be it scientific, clinical, commercial, corporate or regulatory
• Primary Research: Collect market, competitor and stakeholder evidence through desk-based interviewing and elicitation
• Market Analytics: Evaluate business models, clinical development strategies, market dynamics and competitor threats through qualitative KOL interviewing and other methodologies
• Analysis and Reporting: Collaborate with other members of the project team to analyse findings, develop insights and implications and create client presentations that deliver a linear, evidence-based story on the topics in focus
• Conference Attendance: Cover key conferences with the objectives of interacting with a wide range of experts and delegates and attending key symposia, presentations, posters and booths
• Project Management: Plan and execute projects under the guidance of other members of the project team
• Client Management: Collaborate with other members of the project and account teams to ensure that clients experience best-in-class customer service and that projects are run in a proactive, communicative and efficient manner. Create strong client relationships for day-to-day project communications.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Act as a valued subject matter expert externally, and mentor junior staff internally

Required Experience and Skills

• One or more of the following advanced degrees in the life sciences: PhD; MTech (biotechnology or related areas); MPharm; MSc/MBA combination; MBBS
• More than 4 years of relevant professional experience from within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, academia or consultancy organisations, of which at least 2 were focused on oncology and/or immunology and/or biosimilars consult