Primary Market Research Senior Consultant at IQVIA in Bangalore, India

Primary Market Research Senior Consultant

Location: Bangalore, India

Role Summary

• Lead a portfolio of quantitative PMR projects, including large-scale and complex engagements across multiple therapy areas and geographies.
• Role requires balancing a high volume of concurrent studies while ensuring delivery excellence, client satisfaction, and commercial impact
• Serve as trusted partners to clients and internal stakeholders, providing strategic guidance, driving insight generation, mentoring junior team members, and contributing to the expansion of team capabilities, methodologies, and best practices within the Research & Intelligence function.

Responsibilities

• Responsible to lead multiple PMR projects across multiple therapy areas, ensuring timely delivery, quality excellence, and effective management of competing priorities and stakeholder expectations
• Own complex and strategically important research engagements, driving study design, analytical approaches, and insight generation to address key client business challenges
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, serving as a trusted partner to clients and internal teams through proactive communication, consultation, and issue resolution
• Provide leadership and mentorship to junior team members, guiding project execution, reviewing deliverables, sharing best practices, and supporting capability development
• Drive delivery excellence and operational efficiency by overseeing project governance, quality control, risk management, and resource coordination across engagements
• Contribute to capability expansion and business growth through the adoption of innovative methodologies, development of new research offerings, knowledge-sharing initiatives, and support for proposals and client opportunities

Qualifications/Skill set

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Life Sciences; MBA preferred
• 8-12 years of experience in PMR. Preferential consideration will be given to candidates with experience in consulting and market research within the pharmaceutical domain
• Experience/ academic background for sectors encompassing HealthCare industry (Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences, Biotechnology and Healthcare services)
• Experienced with quantitative PMR research and on a variety of therapy areas
• High skills of interpretation and analysis (quantitative, qualitative and integration of different sources of data assets)
• Ability to understand the link between client needs, data and its application
• Experience in designing/ developing questionnaire and discussion guide as per client’s objective
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills
• Good innovative thinking abilities and solution-oriented approach to work
• Should be very comfortable with MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under pressure
• Ability to guide junior team members effectively

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com

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