Associate Consultant, Commercial (03/26)
About The Position
Prescient is looking for bright, ambitious Associate Consultants to join our Commercial Practice team in Jersey City, NJ. About Our Commercial Practice Prescient has 3 core practices: Commercial, Competitor Intelligence and Medical. We specialize in supporting our biopharma clients in making insightful strategic choices for their products and portfolios. We bring together a unique blend of skills and experiences which are required to drive winning strategies. The Commercial Practice is on an exciting journey to expand our customer-centric team in the US market to better serve our US-based global and domestic clients. When you join this exciting venture, you will be working with global healthcare and pharmaceutical clients across the full product life cycle, to help them unlock the full potential of their brands. The Commercial Practice specializes in the following project types: Brand strategy; brand positioning, value proposition and brand story development; disease area and portfolio strategy; life cycle management planning; new product planning; competitor strategy; workshop facilitation; and strategic customer research. About the Opportunity As an Associate Consultant, you will receive exposure to a broad mix of projects – customer research vs. strategy, larger vs. smaller, global vs. domestic. This will enable you to get the experience to decide if you want to take a more specialized route as your career develops. You will receive a mix of formal classroom training, shadowing colleagues on projects and ‘on the job’ training to equip you with the capabilities you need to develop and progress. You will be integrally involved in projects, working closely as the key support to more senior members of the project team. You will become increasingly responsible for taking ownership for specific tasks within a project, but with support and oversight from more experienced colleagues when you need it. Depending on the type of project, you could be involved in designing, conducting, analyzing and presenting primary customer research; analysis of secondary desk research and internal client documents, supporting the design and organization of client workshops and the development of high quality, engaging client outputs and providing project management assistance to the project leader.
Requirements
- Relevant bachelor’s degree or advanced degree – this should include life sciences, possibly with business/marketing component
- Previous experience in consulting, strategic customer research or brand strategy is required
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office applications, specifically PowerPoint, Excel and Word
Responsibilities
- Act with 100% professionalism at all times, demonstrating high levels of respect, integrity and support for colleagues and in our interactions with clients
- Take pride in and full responsibility for meeting high levels of performance in work process and output; take charge of own professional development and proactively seek opportunities for growth
- Demonstrate a strong willingness to learn and a 'can-do' attitude; showcase ability to gain expert status on a new topic and create an impact within the team and with clients
- Demonstrate an ability to thrive in an environment through efficient forward planning and proactivity
- Demonstrate an ability and willingness to take risks, work in a non-hierarchical environment and take step-up/step-down roles to support strong outcomes
- Act as a role model in line with company and client codes of ethics and processes; represent the company and promote its reputation to a high standard
Benefits
- Highly competitive base salary plus Performance Related Bonus, 401K matching and Health & Dental benefits
- A strong values-based culture which is actively lived and promoted
- A team made up of smart and supportive people
- Leaders who are accessible and listen, ambitious for our teams, committed to coaching and sharing their expertise
- An environment where our thinking and our work are all innovative, imaginative and bright
- On-going and tailored career development that stretches you and is based on your ambition, abilities and interests – not boxes
- A culture where everyone is actively encouraged to contribute and influence the business
- Flexible working, recognition for going the extra mile, and a flat hierarchy
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
