Position Details: Domain Consultant Research

Job Description:   

Experienced Life Sciences Domain / Business or Transformation Consultants driving Advisory Services and Delivery, for pharmaceutical and medical devices companies. Provides specific domain expertise and thought leadership across the industry landscape. 

• More than fifteen years of experience in the Life Sciences (LS) industry (incl. Pharma, Biotech, Medical Devices) Research with experience in the areas of Scientific / Discovery Informatics, Drug Discovery or Product Development 

• Strong experience Life Sciences Research areas, with Consulting / Advisory company , global pharmaceutical company / IT Company 

• For the domain area of expertise above, has a thorough understanding of Business Processes, KPIs, Challenges, and Industry Trends and Regulations

• Nice to have: Experience in Clinical Development and/or Operations or Drug Safety 

• Has experience with IT enablement and business transformations, and holistic knowledge of Business and IT Landscape for the domain area of experience above.

• Has familiarity with conducting Business Process Reviews, Business Process Improvements, IT Landscape Assessment, IT simplification, driving the adoption of new technology

• Experience in developing business aligned IT solutions leveraging latest technologies. Familiar with usual office software plus selected or dedicated (as per focus area above) relevant domain-specific packages

• Direct working experience in the LS related industry for a minimum of 5 years

• Strong team building skills, strategy, and operations thinking, solution & result orientation, intercultural competence

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent presentation skills – development and delivery

• Good public speaking/publishing record 

• Coaching and mentoring teams with strong domain expertise for the R&D domain

• Good  understanding of life sciences industry global trends, regulations, guidelines, and directives 

Responsibilities

• Drives Advisory opportunity discovery, sales and execution. Helps shape an end state vision for clients’ businesses –Drug Discovery or Research areas

• Guides clients in the adoption of leading-edge business processes and best practices; get the best thinking from his/her staff and client team members, in their implementation

• Confidently and effectively manages client stakeholders and resources to deliver results

• Participates in supporting executive level client Steering Committee meetings; can manage conflict resolution among various stakeholders/staff to successfully support change management initiatives.

• Where needed, in an owner or supporter role, drafts proposals, plans phased project execution, develops detailed project plans and manages program budgets and costs; fosters shared accountability for the results-based implementation plan

• Facilitates the development of Life Sciences asset advancements by submissions to intellectual capital repository.

Qualification

• PhD / Post Graduation in Sciences / Engineering Graduate or Post Graduate 

• MBA is preferred

1) Years of experience required for position > 15+ years

2) Location for the position  NJ

3) Will any of these positions have any employees reporting into them? If so, please provide the employee numbers  No