AstraZeneca Hiring for Analyst at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Full Time

Job Title: Analyst – Competitive Intelligence Career Level – C3 Introduction to role: We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Competitive Intelligence Analyst to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data to provide actionable insights into market trends, competitor strategies, and industry developments. As a Competitive Intelligence Analyst, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate findings into strategic recommendations and support decision-making processes. If you have a passion for research, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you. Join us and be part of a team that drives strategic growth and innovation through actionable intelligence.

Accountabilities:

In this role, you will be using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision making that will allow us to tackle some of the worlds greatest health threats. Your results will support planning and decision making across R&D and Commercial. In addition to ensuring high-quality deliverables, our team drives alignments across the franchise, champions innovation and standard methodologies, and builds solutions to bring speed, scale and shareability to our planning processes. Robust analytics is a priority for our businesses, as the product potential has major implications to a wide range of disciplines. It is crucial to have someone who aspires to implement innovative analytics techniques to drive our insights across different franchises.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Bachelors OR Masters in Life Science
• Conduct competitive intelligence data gathering from a variety of sources including competitor communications, financial disclosures, clinical trial registries and subscription databases amongst others. Synthesize findings and draft communications for senior leaders. Maintain regular results including reports. Support congress coverage activities and maintain internal CI platforms
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify Competitive Intelligence needs, prioritize projects, and align objectives with business goals.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, new technologies, and standard processes in market research and analytics, incorporating them into our reporting and analytics methodologies.
• Previous experience in pharmaceutical product commercial and CI analytics and insights (competitive intelligence, market research and/or analytics) experience
• Relevant experience in Pharma Competitive Intelligence preferably in Respiratory & Inhaled, Cardiovascular Renal Metabolism and / or Vaccines & Immunology
• Experienced and well-versed in various secondary sources, company and Financial Sources,clinical trial registries & regulatory sources (Cortellis, Evaluate, DRG, Biomedtracker, AlphaSense, syndicated market research – FirstWord, Spherix)
• Advanced MS-office skills (MS-Excel and MS-PowerPoint) Slide development skills (i.e. ability to bring creativity to slides vs. text and data heavy-driven slides)
• Experience in data visualization and reporting tools (like Power BI) is a plus
• Experience with pharmaceutical data sources and CRM data systems (e.g. IQVIA, Symphony, Komodo, Veeva, Salesforce) is a plus
• Intermediate knowledge of Excel and proficiency in VBA is a plus
• Experience of developing and managing dashboards
• An aptitude for problem solving and critical thinking.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Solid understanding of pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, supply chain and marketing functions
• Refresh Existing Reports and identifies improvement opportunities in reporting and BI tools and as needed structure / functionality with the latest insights as they become available.
• Create dashboards to synthesize and visualize key information and enable business decisions.
• Development and refinement of key in-house CI resources including clinical trial trackers, clinical data comparisons, internal portals, launch timings.
• Communicate (written, oral) successfully with various internal team members in a matrix environment.

Desirable Skills/Experience: NA

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash ambitious thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. Thats why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn’t mean were not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world. Join a team that supports the delivery of life-changing medicines for patients by enabling the rest of the business to run effectively and harness our transformative science. We’re on a journey of growth and evolution. to find innovative ways to translate value for the business and our patients. Experience a sense of belonging in our diverse environment. Be part of a team building a community. We interact with diverse cultures and perspectives and are united by our sense of belonging. This is the place to learn and grow together. Are you ready to make a difference? Apply now!