Director - Pharma Consulting

Leadership – BCS Pharma Group

About the Role

The Leadership role will drive pharma consulting and analytics engagements, ensuring successful client delivery, stakeholder alignment, and practice growth. The individual will lead cross-functional teams, contribute to business development, and strengthen the organization's capabilities across Pharma, AI, Analytics, and Data Science.

Key Responsibilities : Client Engagement & Delivery

Lead end-to-end delivery of pharma consulting and analytics programs across multiple client engagements.

Own project planning, governance, execution, resource planning, risk management, and delivery quality.

Manage senior client stakeholders, drive governance discussions, resolve escalations, and ensure successful business outcomes.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, data-driven solutions.

Team Leadership

Lead, mentor, and develop engagement managers, consultants, analysts, and cross-functional teams.

Drive team performance, accountability, collaboration, and professional development.

Foster a high-performance, learning-oriented culture.

Pharma Practice & Capability Building

Build and strengthen the Pharma Consulting practice through reusable frameworks, accelerators, case studies, and best practices.

Drive internal capability development through trainings, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Support organizational capabilities across Commercial Pharma, Market Access, Patient Analytics, Launch Excellence, Customer Engagement, Pricing, and related domains.

Business Development & Pre-Sales

Support proposal development, solution design, effort estimation, client presentations, and storytelling.

Partner with Sales, SMEs, and leadership teams to develop tailored client solutions and expand existing engagements.

Contribute to capability positioning and business growth initiatives.

AI, Analytics & Technology

Lead or support engagements across AI, Data Science, Analytics, Technology Consulting, and Data Engineering.

Develop reusable solution assets and support enterprise-scale digital transformation initiatives.

Translate business challenges into scalable analytics and technology solutions.

Requirements

15–20 years of experience in Pharma Consulting, Commercial Operations, Analytics, Life Sciences, or related domains.

Strong understanding of one or more pharma business areas such as Commercial Analytics, Market Access, Launch Excellence, Patient Analytics, Pricing, Customer Engagement, or Commercial Operations.

Proven experience managing large client engagements, delivery programs, and global stakeholders.

Experience in proposal development, solutioning, pre-sales, and executive client presentations.

Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

Exposure to AI, Data Science, Analytics, Technology Consulting, or Data Engineering is preferred.

Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Must-Have Skills

Pharma domain expertise

Program & Project Management

Client & Executive Stakeholder Management

Proposal Writing & Pre-Sales

Team Leadership & Mentoring

Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving

AI, Data Science & Analytics understanding

Excellent Communication & Presentation Skills

Ownership mindset with strong delivery focus

Who are we?

Sigmoid enables business transformation using data and analytics, leveraging real-time insights to make accurate and fast business decisions, by building modern data architectures using cloud and open source. Some of the world’s largest data producers engage with Sigmoid to solve complex business problems. Sigmoid brings deep expertise in data engineering, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and DataOps. Sigmoid has been recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America, 2021, by Financial Times, Inc. 5000, and Deloitte Technology Fast 500.

Offices : New York | Dallas | San Francisco | Lima | Bengaluru

The below role is for our Bengaluru office.

Note:

By submitting your application, you consent to being contacted by our Talent Acquisition team via phone call, email, SMS, WhatsApp, or other communication channels regarding your application and relevant career opportunities.