Strategy & Transactions – Strategy – TS LSHC - Consultant
Join our team of Strategy & Transactions professionals to help guide Deloitte client service teams through some of the critical moments and transformational initiatives. From strategy to execution, this team helps deliver integrated support covering valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, M&A, and sustainability. Work alongside teams every step of the way, helping them navigate new challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and support in providing practical insights at certain stages of their journey—before, during, and after any major transformational projects or transactions.
Position Summary
Level: Consultant or equivalent
As an experienced Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, you will be responsible for individually delivering high quality work products within due timelines. Need-basis you will be mentoring and/or directing junior team members/liaising with onsite/offshore teams to understand the functional requirements.
Work you’ll do:
Deloitte’s ‘Strategy’ offering helps companies address the entire range of top management challenges including pursuing new growth opportunities, developing go-to-market strategies, channel strategies, and pricing strategies.
- Identify strategies for growth and value creation
- Develop the appropriate business models, operating models, and capabilities to support their strategic vision
- Providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating, and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
- Contribute to multiple work-threads of large, complex engagements, with the high-quality deliverables
- Participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities
- Maximize the ROI on technology investments and leverage technology trends to architect future business strategies
The team:
Our Strategy practice brings together several key capabilities that will allow us to architect integrated programs that transform our clients’ businesses, including Corporate & Business Unit Strategy, Technology Strategy & Insights, Enterprise Model Design, Enterprise Cloud Strategy and Business Transformation.
Strategy professionals will serve as trusted advisors to our clients, working with them to make clear data-driven choices about where to play and how to win, in order to drive growth and enterprise value.
Qualifications
Must Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:
- MBA, MS, M. Tech., or PHD from a premier school in India or abroad. Educational background in Biotech / Pharmaceutical / Biomedical / Biochemistry / Bioinformatics / Biostatistics preferred
- 1-3 years of relevant experience post MBA / MS / MTech
- 1-2 years with LSHC industry focus
Enterprise Technology and Transformation Strategy – Life Sciences and Health Care (LSHC)
LSHC Industry Experience
- Consulting experience for clients in the Life Sciences and Healthcare industry
- Hands-on exposure of working for / with leading companies in the Life Sciences (Pharmaceutical / Biotech), US Provider and/or US Payor/Health Plan/PBM industries (minimum 1+ year of experience)
- Awareness of industry trends, challenges, technology adoption levels and solution landscape in at least one of the sub-sectors in Life Sciences and Healthcare
Enterprise Technology and Transformation Strategy
- Demonstrate application of business acumen while leveraging information technology
- Experience of being a Technology Product Owner and responsible for delivering product model and communicating the product needs with business partners
- Strong understanding of front to back architecture principles, technology stack, infrastructure with exposure to new age tools
- One life cycle project execution experience in recommending and/or implementing IT strategy and solutions for improving business outcomes
- Exposure to working in non-India Geographies (preferably the US) and / or interacting with Global stakeholders
- Candidates with project experience in one or more of the following areas is good to have:
- Delivering IT Strategy, driven both from a top-down analysis starting with an articulated business strategy and a bottom-up technology capability analysis; Experience working on cost reduction techniques, portfolio modernization and delivery roadmap creation for LSHC players
- - Assessment of current state operating model -its underlying processes, ability to identify pain points and process gaps; design of target state operating model and associated roadmap
- – Experience of Enterprise Architecture capabilities such as Blueprinting, solution architecture, architecture assessment, planning and cost estimation. Knowledge of any of the major Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (preferred) E.g. TOGAF, FEA(F), and DoDAF. Experience with CTMS, LIMS, Compliance, GXP, MES, Argus, Oracle systems preferred
- : Experience working on IT Outsourcing model, CROs, BPOs etc. vendor analysis and benchmarking, contract analysis and understanding of how IT resources create shareholder (business) value
- : Strong understanding of data management process across the data lifecycle (MDM, ingestion, storage, transformation) with experience in evaluating the client's data landscape and architecture to identify opportunities for improvement. Assessing current data governance practices and maturity within client organizations, having the ability to define and implement data governance strategies and frameworks for organizations. Additionally, having regulatory experience such as those of US FDA, EMEA, and DCGI are desirable
- – Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and frameworks, ability to design solutions around automation including advanced AI / ML solutions in areas of deep learning, machine learning, NLP, Simulation etc.; knowledge of AI/ML implementation use cases for players in LSHC industry (e.g., impact of Gen AI on healthcare value chain, specifically in R&D, manufacturing and commercialization of the drug)
- – Understand the impact of cloud computing in business and technology decisions, ability to identify and articulate the business and technology drivers of cloud computing, design of business cases for cloud. Certifications such as AWS, GCP, Azure will be a plus. Experience with workload assessment, business cases development, operational assessment, roadmap creation, vendor selection
- – Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering with hands on experience on tools such as Jenkins, Git and JIRA
Core Consulting Skills
- Clear and concise communication - conduct client interviews, participate in workshops/trainings and present recommendations.
- Good client presence – interact and build relationships with clients and other team members
- Analytical thinking - ability to perform detailed, quantitative analysis, research (primary and secondary) and create business cases. Synthesize and present insights and recommendations from data.
- Logical structuring - structured approach to problem solving and ability to perform root cause analysis of client problems
- Deadline-oriented and quality focused - develop and own development of deliverables. Own and manage specific work-thread, develop plans for components of engagement, manage and mentor junior resources
- Collaboration - Be able to work both independently and as part of a team with professionals at all levels. Be able to prioritize tasks, manage change in scope, work on multiple assignments, and raise concerns/questions where appropriate
- Network - ability to chart one’s own career and build networks within the organization
Education:
- MBA, MS, M. Tech., or PHD from a premier school in India or abroad. Educational background in Biotech / Pharmaceutical / Biomedical / Biochemistry / Bioinformatics / Biostatistics preferred
Location: Bengaluru/ Hyderabad/ Pune