The Economist jobs - Associate Consultant

Introduction

EIU Healthcare/Clearstate, a business of the Economist Intelligence Unit, offers specialized healthcare market tracking intelligence complimented by strategic advisory services to help medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare service firms understand their current and potential markets, and implement pragmatic and innovative strategies to ultimately tap into new growth opportunities.

We are currently looking for an experienced consultant with an entrepreneurial mind-set and strong leadership qualities to join us in a middle leadership role as an Associate Consultant. As Associate consultant, you will be a critical member of the leadership and project team and will be heavily involved in leading and managing strategic projects and engagements with our key clients, leading a team of healthcare consultants including guidance, mentorship, and coaching, as well as driving key company initiatives including new solutions development, workflow improvement, staff training etc.

Accountabilities

How You Will Contribute

• Serve as the client engagement lead and project lead/manage during the course of the project engagement, including communicating project updates, presenting key milestones, pre-empting project issues, managing different client stakeholders, etc.
• Lead a team of healthcare analyst across all types of project engagements in the areas of market opportunity assessment, go-to-market strategy, customer insights, channel optimization strategy, market access, and competitive benchmarking, product concept testing
• Conduct business development activities to grow key account relationships via request for proposals and/or new project assignments.
• Mentor, guide, appraise, train and develop analysts and senior analysts, ensuring that they develop the necessary skill sets in order to meet their performance goals and successfully grow their careers
  
  

The Ideal Skills For This Role Are

Experience, skills and professional attributes

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in healthcare business consulting
• Proven track record in project management/project leadership and client handling, in the healthcare sector or in business consulting
• Bachelor or Master degree from top tier universities, preferably Science major, with an MBA
• Good command of written and spoken English
• Highly analytical, organized, meticulous
• Excellent people skills, with the ability to motivate teams and work well with people at all levels in the organization
• Strong business acumen with versatility to think inside and outside of the box
• Ability to work independently and among teams, in a fast paced team structure