The Position

Position Title: Sr / Lead - Market Research Analyst

Location: Chennai

Years of Relevant Experience in Analytics/Pharma/Biotech Domain - 5-8 years in the market and business research space in the Pharma, Healthcare, Biotechnology domain

Job Description:

Roche has established Global Analytics and Technology Center of Excellence (GATE) in India to drive analytics & technology driven solutions by collaborating with Roche affiliates across the globe.

As a Sr / Lead - Market Research Analyst, you will work closely with stakeholders in the business teams across Roche’s global affiliates, conduct research on internal & external data sources, generating qualitative and quantitative insights, and deliver high quality research and analytics solutions to business problems. You will be required to conceptualize unstructured business problems and apply research and analytical skills to address business questions.

In this role, you will:

• Be the subject matter expert on healthcare industry trends, and secondary research

• Develop a deep understanding of patients, other customers, and market dynamics (healthcare industry)

• Proactively mine internal information, reports maintained by vendors and other external sources to spot trends, patterns, areas of opportunities and threats for the business, synthesis insights and build the initial foundational insights and story.

• Gather insights from various sources, including public & proprietary databases, and translate the information into insightful stories that help in developing strategies

• Design and execute primary and secondary market research, synthesizing the results and insights from the research into actionable recommendations for business

• Generate qualitative / quantitative reports that communicate the key takeaways in an easy to understand manner

• Present the findings from the analyses to the stakeholders in an effective and structured fashion

• Provide an objective, holistic point of view; effectively weigh and communicate trade-off considerations.

• Take complete ownership and work with minimal guidance to add value in a dynamic environment

• Experience in designing and conducting surveys - desirable

• Knowledge of data visualization techniques and tools such as Tableau or Power BI to create visual representations of research findings – highly recommended

Specific requirements w.r.t. Quantitative Market research

Strong understanding of basic statistical concepts and ability to apply them to analyze data from primary and secondary research studies Ability to work with statistical software packages such as SPSS, R, or SAS to clean, analyze, and interpret data – highly preferred Utilize and be comfortable working with raw data from quant studies - cleaning data, analyzing data and charting data into a meaningful story (ATUs, Trackers) Comfort running MaxDiff survey analysis / Conjoint studies/ cluster analysis/ factor analysis and similar studies

Specific requirements w.r.t. Qualitative Market Research

Comfort synthesizing qualitative insights into a meaningful / impactful and motivating story Desk research to provide background insights on a topic Social listening - ability to create landscape reports / topical reports utilizing SL Synthesizing insights from multiple insight channels to a meaningful story

Qualifications:

• Overall experience of 5 - 8 years in the market and business research space in the Pharma, Healthcare, Biotechnology domain

• Experience of working with US customers

• Strong understanding of the drug development process from clinical phases to launch and commercialization

• Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative MR techniques and experience in qualitative and quantitative analysis

• Hands on experience with SQL, MS-Excel & MS-PowerPoint is must and SAS/ Python/ AWS/ R/ SPSS are nice to have

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to develop compelling stories, present to the stakeholders and influence decision-making

• Self-starter with innovative mindset and passionate about solving complex problems

• Highly motivated, learning oriented and quality-focused individuals would be preferred

Education:

• B. Sc. / B. Tech/ B.E. – Biotechnology/ Pharma/ Healthcare/ Life sciences

• MBA or Certification in area of market research/ analytics (good to have)

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.