Life Sciences Commercial - Quant Primary Market Research jobs at Ey in India, Bengaluru

Position: Manager

Role Overview: The Capital Projects Solution Lead will play a pivotal role in organizing and driving capital project initiatives across governance, strategy, and execution. This position requires a seasoned professional with extensive experience in capital projects, capable of coordinating cross-functional teams and managing key interfaces between various functions. The person will support strategic initiatives related to governance, risk management, contracting strategy, and digital innovation, ensuring alignment and timely delivery of outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as innovation lead to organize and drive capital projects initiatives across governance, strategy, and execution.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and manage key interfaces between capital projects, strategy, and execution functions.
• Support strategic initiatives related to capital project governance, risk management, contracting strategy, and digital innovation.
• Develop and track key priorities for capital project planning, execution enablement, and transformation activities.
• Provide executive-level support for leadership alignment, reporting, and decision-making processes.
• Drive initiative execution by proactively identifying gaps, managing follow-ups, and ensuring timely delivery of outcomes.

Job Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in capital projects with hands-on involvement in project development.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly convey complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to work in collaborative, cross-functional environments and manage multiple stakeholder interfaces.
• Deep understanding of capital project best practices, including Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) and Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI).
• Strong familiarity with the full project lifecycle, including Front-End Loading (FEL) stages 1-5.
• Experience in project execution planning and development of execution strategies, including risk and contracting.
• Hands-on involvement in project development activities such as concept selection, feasibility analysis, and early-phase planning.
• Proven leadership and organizational skills with experience leading initiatives or teams.
• High level of initiative and ability to independently drive priorities from concept to completion.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (civil or mechanical preferred) or closely related technical field.
• Comfort with digital innovation and tools used to enable capital project execution and reporting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for evaluating project performance and identifying areas of improvement.
• Adaptability and resilience in managing competing priorities and dynamic project environments.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Oil and gas industry experience within a corporate capital projects division or EPC environment.
• Background in corporate strategy or capital project planning functions.
• MBA or advanced engineering degree highly preferred.
• Analytical and decision-support skills to interpret capital project data and support executive-level outcomes.
• Proactive, self-starter mindset with the ability to work independently and deliver under pressure.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Your key responsibilities

• Spanish / Portuguese language knowledge
• Experience in GBS set up activities such as activity analysis, cost baselining, Location assessment, Business case creation, Target Model design, etc.
• Working knowledge of GBS / SSC setup engagements. Know-how of the Business Transition assignments and related activities
• Experience / knowledge around finance functions in at least two domains – Record to report (RTR), Procure to pay (PTP), Order to cash (OTC) or FP&A
• This includes experience around Account Reconciliations, Journals, Transaction matching, Variance analysis, intercompany and Fixed assets accounting / management
• Strong accounting skills and understands financial reports and statements
• Experience / knowledge around finance functions or other sectors like Banking, Insurance, Wealth Asset Management, Supply Chain
• Should have knowledge of activities in financial close of an organisation for month / Quarter / Annual close periods
• Good Knowledge on ledger and sub-ledger systems; technical know-how of SAP ERP / HANA, Oracle GL (good to have)
• Good to have experience / exposure (the below skills are an added advantage for candidates):
• Translate business requirements to technical language and model (good to have)
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure
• Managing / supervising teams of people on project work
• Open to travel (Domestic & International)
• Open to work in any shift

Skills and attributes for success

• Consulting experience is a good to have
• Good articulation skills are a must
• IFRS or Banking or Insurance certification is a good to have
• Confident & professional communication style
• Proficiency in English (oral and written)
• Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization
• Capability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others
• Strong analytical skills as well as excellent problem-solving skills for interpreting the IFRS standards

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Commerce Graduate or MBA (Finance)
• Other professional degrees (like CPA, CFA, CMA) can be considered based on relevant working experience as required
• 7-10 years (for Senior level) of work experience in Business Transition / GBS / SSC setup activities
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills is a must

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Business Finance Transformation, GBS / SSC Setup
• Project management skills
• Exposure to tools like ERP, HFM, Visio, ARIS, etc.

What we look for

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
• Opportunities to work with EY Advisory practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage multiple market access projects across diverse therapy areas (significant oncology experience will be preferable)
• Drive secondary research to build foundational knowledge for primary market research and strategic analysis.
• Review and refine materials for primary market research including screeners, discussion guides, stimulus, discussion guide, pre-read material.
• Lead qualitative interviews with HCPs, KOLs, and ex-payers to extract actionable insights.
• Lead the analysis of the outputs from the interviews to tease out key insights, identify trends, and generate solutions to answer the research problem.
• Prepare and lead client calls, workshops, and presentations to communicate findings and recommendations.
• Develop and present high-impact client deliverables including strategic decks, and executive summaries.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering skill development and quality delivery.
• Promote a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.
• Leverage findings to develop an impactful client presentation deck and final reports to answer key client questions and develop strategic outputs.
• Participate and co-moderate in and moderate workshops (virtual and in-person), such as ad-boards, evidence generation workshops, and other such workshops.

Key Competencies:

• Strong business analysis skills with experience in life sciences strategy, commercial strategy consulting, and market access.
• Deep understanding of market access in Europe and the UK including HTA rules, IRP, the impact of EU-HTA regulations and other such topics that has an impact on the access and pricing of existing and upcoming therapies
• Excellent communication and storytelling abilities to present data and insights to senior stakeholders and clients in a clear and compelling manner.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities independently and deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Extensive experience in market access-related projects such as payer strategy, pricing research, evidence generation planning, mock negotiation workshops, advisory boards, and value story development
• Drive proposal development and provide directions to team members on the methodology to be proposed, background section and other key information to be included
• Drive development of thought leadership articles, ISPOR publications on key topics in the market access space

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/ Master's degree in life sciences-related fields such as pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, biotechnology from top-tier institutes
• An MBA (in Pharma/healthcare/general) is preferred but not mandatory.

Other requirements:

• Relevant analytical experience in life sciences commercial strategy consulting.
• Experience working across a broad range of projects in therapy areas like oncology, immunology and rare diseases
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proactiveness and passion for tackling new challenges.
• Personal drive and positive work ethic to deliver results in demanding situations.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Position: Manager

Role Overview: The Capital Projects Solution Lead will play a pivotal role in organizing and driving capital project initiatives across governance, strategy, and execution. This position requires a seasoned professional with extensive experience in capital projects, capable of coordinating cross-functional teams and managing key interfaces between various functions. The person will support strategic initiatives related to governance, risk management, contracting strategy, and digital innovation, ensuring alignment and timely delivery of outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as innovation lead to organize and drive capital projects initiatives across governance, strategy, and execution.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and manage key interfaces between capital projects, strategy, and execution functions.
• Support strategic initiatives related to capital project governance, risk management, contracting strategy, and digital innovation.
• Develop and track key priorities for capital project planning, execution enablement, and transformation activities.
• Provide executive-level support for leadership alignment, reporting, and decision-making processes.
• Drive initiative execution by proactively identifying gaps, managing follow-ups, and ensuring timely delivery of outcomes.

Job Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in capital projects with hands-on involvement in project development.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly convey complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to work in collaborative, cross-functional environments and manage multiple stakeholder interfaces.
• Deep understanding of capital project best practices, including Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) and Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI).
• Strong familiarity with the full project lifecycle, including Front-End Loading (FEL) stages 1-5.
• Experience in project execution planning and development of execution strategies, including risk and contracting.
• Hands-on involvement in project development activities such as concept selection, feasibility analysis, and early-phase planning.
• Proven leadership and organizational skills with experience leading initiatives or teams.
• High level of initiative and ability to independently drive priorities from concept to completion.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (civil or mechanical preferred) or closely related technical field.
• Comfort with digital innovation and tools used to enable capital project execution and reporting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for evaluating project performance and identifying areas of improvement.
• Adaptability and resilience in managing competing priorities and dynamic project environments.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Oil and gas industry experience within a corporate capital projects division or EPC environment.
• Background in corporate strategy or capital project planning functions.
• MBA or advanced engineering degree highly preferred.
• Analytical and decision-support skills to interpret capital project data and support executive-level outcomes.
• Proactive, self-starter mindset with the ability to work independently and deliver under pressure.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Job Summary:

: 2.5 to 5 years

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Conduct secondary research to help the team build materials for primary market research and other background slides.
• Create therapy area overviews, including disease background, simplify treatment algorithms from NCCN and other such bodies, identify unmet needs, and develop a competitive landscape.
• Utilize the disease background slides to identify gaps in the research and develop materials, including a discussion guide, screener, pre-read, and stimulus, to enable primary market research with KOLs and payers.
• Conduct and participate in primary interviews to gather insights from experts regarding the therapy area, implications for the client's drugs, perception of the TPP, and identify key opportunities and challenges.
• Analyse outputs from the interviews to tease out key insights, identify trends, and generate solutions to answer the research problem.
• Leverage findings from secondary and primary market research to develop an impactful client presentation deck and final reports to answer key client questions and develop strategic outputs.
• Participate in and moderate workshops (virtual and in-person), such as ad-boards, evidence generation workshops, and other such workshops.
• Prepare materials for scheduled catch-up calls with clients and present findings.
• Present findings and recommendations to internal stakeholders and executive leadership

Key Competencies:

• Strong business analysis skills with experience in life sciences strategy, commercial strategy consulting, and market access.
• Good knowledge of market access in Europe, including HTA rules in top markets, IRP, the impact of EU-HTA regulations, and experience in participating/moderating advisory boards and other workshops.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Therapeutic area-specific expertise.
• Advanced MS Excel skills.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Extensive experience in commercial strategy projects related to opportunity assessment, strategic and tactical brand plans, TPP research, and policy-shaping advisory.
• Extensive experience in market access-related projects such as payer strategy, pricing research, evidence generation planning, mock negotiation workshops, advisory boards, and value story development (optional, not mandatory).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage tasks independently and proactively.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Personal drive and positive work ethic to deliver results within tight deadlines and in demanding situations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/ Master's degree in life sciences-related fields such as pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, biotechnology from top-tier institutes
• An MBA (in Pharma/healthcare/general) is preferred but not mandatory.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant analytical experience in life sciences commercial strategy consulting.
• Experience working across a broad range of projects in therapy areas like oncology, immunology, rare diseases, and cardiovascular diseases.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proactiveness and passion for tackling new challenges.
• Personal drive and positive work ethic to deliver results in demanding situations.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Description

Within FSRM, the Market Risk (MR) team assists clients to design and implement strategic and functional changes across risk management, treasury, front office, middle office, and back office activities with a focus on risk and valuation processes, regulatory compliance, analytics, strategy, and organizational structure. Practical implementation knowledge of risk and capital management is a key competency of MR, focused on regulatory capital, market and counterparty credit risk management and broker-dealer capital requirements. Clients include large domestic and global financial institutions, broker-dealers, foreign banking organizations, asset management firms and insurance companies with significant capital markets activities. Project teams frequently work with the senior management of these firms, including CFOs and CROs

Your key responsibilities

• Engagement Leadership
  • Demonstrate deep technical capability and industry knowledge of financial products
  • Be the technical lead and subject matter expert in the following areas:
    • Model Risk Management /model development/validation knowledge in market risk (VaR, Stressed VaR, Expected Shortfall, etc.) and/or counterparty credit risk (CVA, PFE, etc.).
    • Working knowledge of statistical and numerical techniques (E.g., Monte-Carlo methods, Finite difference methods)
    • Equity pricing models, Interest Rate Models (HW1F, HW2F, HJM, LMM), Stochastic Volatility (SABR, Heston) model, Local Volatility model (Dupire), frameworks for Volatility stripping and calibration, Bootstrapping of IR curves (Single curve, Multi curve framework), Asset Liability Management (NII, MVPE) and Prepayment Models
    • Knowledge of mathematical concepts like Stochastic Calculus, Differential and Integral calculus (ODE/PDE/SDE), Numerical Methods, Linear algebra, Measure Theory.
    • Pricing derivatives for any of the asset classes such as fixed income, equities, credit, interest rates, FX, and commodities.
    • Programming languages like Python/R/C++

• • Advise and provide clients with strategic recommendations on Financial Services Risk Management issues facing the financial services sector, focusing on the identification, measurement, and management of Traded Products Risk and Capital
  • Participate in Quantitative Risk and Assurance engagements such as derivatives pricing, market risk and counterparty credit risk modelling and model validation support.
  • Understanding clients’ unique ambitions and needs and referring them to colleagues in other teams and areas to broaden our business relationships

• Go-To-Market
  • Drive and lead business development initiatives
  • Provide sales and pursuit enablement support
  • Lead expansion of business in various accounts and sectors by expanding and leveraging the relationships and contacts in the market
  • Experience in stakeholder and client management
  • Build and maintain long-term relationships both in the market and within the wide-ranging EY network

People responsibilities
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for Senior Consultants and Managers
• Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting talent
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills

Intellectual capital building responsibilities
• Play your part in developing intellectual capital to support delivering superior outcomes for client and firm
• Provide insights in creating thought leadership articles and white paper in the areas of upcoming market risk topics and trends.

To qualify for the role, you should have

• Undergraduate (4-year degree) or Masters (Computational Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, or Physics preferred) or Ph.D. in quantitative topics with at least 11+ years of relevant industry experience and track record.
• Professional Qualification e.g., CQF / CFA / FRM / PRM would be preferred
• Significant experience in application and justification of statistical and numerical techniques and principles of the theory of probability.
• Good understanding of Derivative Pricing, Market risk measurement and CVA methodologies used for the trading, risk management and ideally calculation of regulatory capital requirements.
• Modelling background, including experience in model development and model validation
• Excellent communication, strong problem solving and solution development skills
• Project management and report writing experience
• Ability to drive business development and contribute to the growth of the EY solutions
• Willingness to travel to meet client needs
• A self-starter, can-do attitude with energy and willingness to try new things

Everything you’ll do will come back to providing exceptional services to our clients. Colleagues and clients will look to you to lead components of the project, drive high quality results while coaching & motivating staff and managing client expectations. You will build your knowledge and experience, become a trusted advisor, and take your career to new heights.

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

• A collaborative environment where everyone works together to create a better working world
• Excellent training and development prospects, both through established programs and on-the-job training
• An excellent team of senior colleagues, dedicated to managing and varying your workload

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Your key responsibilities

• Knowledge on Financial Planning and Budgeting Processes, Financial Consolidation, Cost Allocation and Controllership
• Focus on the design and implementation of operating models in BPRA
• Identify improvement opportunities in BPRA domain
• Process re-design and optimisation (AS-IS & TO-BE) leveraging BPM tools
• Identification of KPIs for CXO reporting and dashboarding
• Perform vendor analysis and prepare relevant analysis reports for clients
• Design, configuration and implementation of BPRA processes in EPM tools
• Configuration and know how on activity-based costing models
• Partner directly with onshore finance teams/clients to collaborate on metrics, goals and business reviews
• Perform cost Accounting & cost categorization (People & Non people cost)
• Standardisation and streamline close processes leveraging leading practices and technology
• CoA design/re-design as per management and statutory reporting needs
• Build Management Reporting in tools like Power BI / Tableau / Qlik Sense / OneStream / Jedox / Anaplan / Hyperion / Board EPM
• Good Knowledge on ledger and sub-ledger systems; technical know-how of SAP ERP / HANA, Oracle GL (good to have)
• Knowledge in finance functions – ‘Record to report’, processes involving account reconciliations, Journals, Transaction matching, Variance analysis, intercompany and Fixed assets accounting / management (Good to have process knowledge of Procure to Pay and Order to Cash)
• Working knowledge of GBS / SSC setup engagements
• Should have knowledge of activities in financial close of an organisation for month / Quarter / Annual close periods
• BPRA service delivery model
• Translate business requirements to technical language and model (good to have)
• Managing/ supervising teams of people on project work
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure
• Open to travel (Domestic & International)

Skills and attributes for success

• Agile, Learnability and problem-solving approach
• Consulting experience is a good to have
• Confident & professional communication style
• Proficiency in English (oral and written)
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization
• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others
• Strong analytical skills as well as excellent problem-solving skills for interpreting the IFRS standards

To qualify for the role, you must have

• CA, CFA, CPA, OR Master’s in business administration in Finance
• 3-5 years (for Staff level) and 7-10 years (for Senior level) of work experience in BPRA projects
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Anaplan/Tagetik/Oracle PBCS and EPBCS/Power BI/Tableau/OneStream/Board and relevant EPM tools

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Finance Transformation
• GBS/SSC Setup
• Project management skills, IFRS Implementation / IFRS Reporting Experience
• Exposure to tools like ERP, EPM tools, Visio, ARIS, etc.

What we look for

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
• Opportunities to work with EY Advisory practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you