Senior Consulting Manager - Life Sciences (Associate Director)

Senior Consulting Manager - Life Sciences (Associate Director)
Focus: Digital Business Consulting in the Pharma industry
Geographical Coverage: ASEAN and Greater China
Base Location: Singapore

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 193 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at http://www.cognizant.com/ or follow us @Cognizant.

The Cognizant Difference - Helping our Clients Win In Digital
At Cognizant Consulting, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game-across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge. Our strategy is built around elevating business and industry understanding of the aspirations and unique abilities of our clients and by building these relationships based on trust and value.
Cognizant Consulting Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) team advises our clients from the life sciences industry (pharmaceuticals and medical technology) on the topics of digital transformation/digital strategies, process optimization and innovation. The focus is on new business models with digital product and service offerings as well as on digitized core processes in the areas of R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management & Logistics as well as Marketing & Sales. We are looking for consultants who are interested in proactively shaping the pharmaceutical industry consulting market segment.

Role Responsibilities:

• Provide consulting/advisory services and support our customers in the pharmaceutical industry in solving and addressing their most important digital transformation challenges
• Pro- actively guide and work on the entire cycle of a project from acquisition, scoping, planning, design & development of solutions
• Lead client conversations with a clear points of view and turn them into solutions
• Effective proposal writing and client presentations.
• Possess good customer relationship and ability to build new customer relationship
• Broad understanding of the LS value chain and a deep expertise in one or more domains within the value chain (e.g. Sales & Marketing). Up-to-date industry knowledge
• You take responsibility for your team and build it up successively

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelors in Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics. MBA is preferred
• Comprehensive professional experience (at least8+ years) in a management consultancy with a focus on life sciences/ pharmaceuticals or a previous activity with a leading company from the pharmaceutical industry
• Excellent knowledge and project experience in at least two of the following companies: Finance, R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Marketing & Sales
• Project experience in the context of transformation and implementation projects (e.g. SAP, Salesforce, Veeva) are an advantage
• Experienced in senior stakeholder management and conducting workshops
• Willingness to travel across SG, HK, Malaysia, China etc.
• English speaking and preferably Mandarin speaking to liaise with clients in China