Engagement Manager - Healthcare

Overview

What makes this role important at Ipsos? At Ipsos, we are passionately curious about people, markets, brands, and society. We deliver information and analysis that make our complex world easier and faster to navigate and inspires our clients to make smarter decisions. The Healthcare service line at Ipsos brings true specialization, offering a unique depth of knowledge and expertise across the product lifecycle to our clients in biopharma, health insurance, digital health, medical devices, and diagnostics companies.

The Advisory services team was established to generate strategic insights that build upon the company’s core competencies in market research, culminating in a premier healthcare consultancy. You will join a unique team of problem solvers who come from backgrounds as diverse as scientific research, brand management, strategy consulting, medicine, and more. Together, the team leverages these diverse perspectives to solve some of the most complex and challenging strategic problems for our clients across the healthcare market.

• Consulting and Strategic Development:
  Involves working with executives to develop growth strategies for new segments and commercial or product offerings.
• Market Analysis and Strategy:
  Encompasses market and competitive landscape assessment, market sizing, opportunity assessment, and market valuation.
• Partnership and Growth Optimization:
  Involves partnership identification, developing playbooks, and executing analytical work streams to optimize commercial programs.
• Client Activation and Workshops:
  Includes conducting client activation work sessions aimed at strategy refinement and implementation.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify & define business problems, develop solutions to address clients’ KBQs, adjust approaches & frameworks to fit a variety of project types.

• BA/BS required; MBA or other advanced degree (MPH, MSc, etc) preferred
• 8+ years of professional life sciences experience preferably in management consulting/strategy, commercial strategy, product launch/management/marketing, and/or business analytics
• Experience with market access/health economics/evidence generation, preferred
• Outstanding project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects
• Manage direct reports and mentor junior staff
• Demonstrated leadership skills, including bringing clarity to ambiguous situations
• Strong analytical, business acumen, and critical thinking skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally, with a solid understanding of market research
• Confidence outlining, creating, and writing proposals (with support from executive team) in response to client RFPs
• Strong knowledge and experience utilizing various data sources used in strategic consulting engagements (including competitive intelligence, custom research – qual & quant methods, secondary resources & databases) along with strong analytical skills for applying these sources for opportunity assessments, market modeling, strategy development, valuations
• Experience with analyzing and interpreting custom research and extrapolating findings to address the larger strategy development
• Experience in developing and executing strategic frameworks to address complex issues
• Experience with generating actionable and insightful reports, in a story-focused format, that resonate with different stakeholders and levels, through the development, production, & interpretation of multiple data and information inputs; assigning meaning to information by considering context & different perspectives and drawing logical conclusions based on evidence & reasoning. Ability to explain insights, findings, and analysis limitations to clients
• Advanced proficiency of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint required; proficiency in SPSS or other similar data analysis tools preferred
• High degree of independence and exceptional work ethic
• Ease and confidence with “thinking on your feet”
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Professional, proactive demeanor
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Curiosity and interest in developing, writing, and leading thought leadership initiatives

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