Healthcare & Life Sciences R&D Specialist

About Us

Do you want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges?We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. You'll be part of an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment of 300,000 employees. Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset. Are you ready?

About you and the role

· You bring at least 12 +years of deep functional expertise in at least one key area of R&D and a breadth of experience in stakeholder management, problem-solving, and resilience.

· You occupy the pivotal role of relationship manager for critical client engagements, working as a lynchpin between Client leadership, Infosys leadership and Infosys teams.

· You will provide strategic leadership across programs of work, successfully meeting the business objective for our clients. This includes taking overall accountability for program delivery by understanding overall dynamics of ecosystem, working out the ‘art of possible’ while keeping stakeholders aware of ground realities and finding workable solutions to challenges and deadlocks. You will lead the key governance forums including Program Boards; and report program status and progress to Steering Committees.

· You will provide operational leadership across the program as well. This includes overall direction to practitioners in terms of project scope, execution planning, deliverables, dependencies, risk management, methodology, staffing etc. Manage cost, timelines, milestones, change control and quality during delivery.

· You will lead and contribute to the development of new practice service offerings and point of views in your area of expertise to expand addressable functional areas.

· You will lead and coordinate business development and pre-sales activities, including proposals and responses to “Requests for Proposal” (RFPs) and “Requests for Information” (RFIs) and collaborate with other service lines and sales teams to win new business.

· You will facilitate the sourcing, selection and allocation of resources to the program delivery teams.

· You will manage internal consulting resources, 3rd party provider resources, and contract resources.

Requirements

Required experience and qualifications

· Differentiated expertise from extensive work experience in the Life Sciences industry with profound know-how of Life Sciences challenges and business dynamics within Pharmaceutical R&D.

· Superior client interaction skills: ability to build trusted relationships and to drive transformation programs jointly with client leadership. Ability to navigate in a complex organization structure.

· Good negotiation and vendor management skills.

· Ability to inspire, convince and to influence to gain buy-in from senior business management and stakeholders.

· Superior problem management skills (problem identification, structuring, resolution) and moderation skills.

· Excellent communication, presentation and facilitations skills.

· Proven ability to deliver under tight deadlines and challenging constraints.

· Ability to collaborate within Infosys and to leverage existing resources.

· Program management skills proven through program leadership positions in previous roles, with experience of establishing high-performing teams and an interest in developing team members.

· Extensive work experience in a consulting company and/or track record of working in large scale transformation programs.

· Experience of executing delivery using a blend of onsite resources with nearshore and offshore delivery centres.

· Experience in gathering, validating, synthesizing, documenting and communicating data and information for a range of audiences.

· Demonstrated skills in defining and executing an Agile-based design and delivery approach.

· Willingness to travel

Given that this is just a short snapshot of the role we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the requirements listed above. We are looking for individuals who strive to make an impact and are eager to learn. If this sounds like you and you feel you have the skills and experience required, then please apply now.

About your team

Join our growing Life Sciences practice and make a difference.

We are a passionate group of people focused on bringing real innovation to our life sciences and healthcare clients. Our business is growing fast and we’re hiring like-minded practitioners with specialized background in Life sciences areas and zeal to improve lives of patients enabled by data, digital and AI technology advancements. When you join Infosys Consulting, you’ll have exposure to strategic projects, you’ll be part of a multi-cultural collaborative team, and your great work will be noticed. In this practice you will have a passion for unlocking the most innovative technological solutions used to improve the world of life sciences. In this role you’ll be able to see your own ideas transform into breakthrough results for some of the largest life sciencesl companies around the world. This is more than just a job, it’s an opportunity to make a real difference

Benefits

Be part of a globally renowned management consulting firm on the front-line of industry disruption and at the cutting edge of technology. We work with market leading brands across sectors. Our culture is inclusive and entrepreneurial. Being a mid-size consultancy within the scale of Infosys gives us the global reach to partner with our clients throughout their transformation journey.

We offer industry-leading compensation and benefits, along with top training and development opportunities so that you can grow your career and achieve your personal ambitions. Curious to learn more? We’d love to hear from you.... Apply today!