Analyst - Commercial Pharma Analytics

Overview

As an Analyst in Pharmaceutical Commercial Analytics in Chennai, you will serve as an internal consultant to a specific brand team, delivering commercial analytics that drive strategic and operational decisions.

What you'll do

• Provide rigorous analytics to guide brand strategy and resourcing decisions, with focus on customer-facing model leadership and measurable business impact.
• Build and implement HCP and patient grouping and selection approaches, and identify high-value opportunities to improve coverage, conversion, and growth.
• Build, test, and operationalize predictive and prescriptive models using syndicated and custom, primary and secondary data (including IQVIA).
• Lead smart business experiments (test and learn), market analysis simulations, and patient movement modelling.
• Access and integrate large, transactional datasets via platforms and tools such as DataBricks, PySpark, Python, R, and SQL, ensuring quality and reproducibility.
• Summarize and present findings through clear narratives, visualizations, and concise recommendations that influence senior collaborators.
• Identify, prioritize, and lead the development, deployment, and embedding of new analytic capabilities.
• Build trusted relationships with cross-functional partners and translate technical solutions into business value.
• Monitor the external analytics landscape within and beyond pharma and evaluate methods and technologies for practical use.

What you'll need

• A quantitative Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience from an accredited college or university, in Engineering, Operations Research, Management Science, Economics, Statistics, Applied Math, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in application of advanced methods and statistical procedures on large and disparate datasets.
• 3+ years of recent experience and proficiency with PySpark, Python, R, and SQL.
• Working knowledge of data visualization tools such as PowerBI, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Qlikview, D3js or similar.
• Working knowledge of platforms like DataBricks.
• Experience with IQVIA data sets.
• Experience in MS Office products, with Excel and PowerPoint skills required.
• Expertise in managing and analyzing a range of large, transactional databases.
• Ability to derive, summarize and communicate insights from analyses.
• Organization and time management skills.

Nice to have

• An advanced degree (Master's, MBA or PhD).
• Statistical analysis and modelling background.
• Machine learning experience.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with business leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with ability to present succinct, compelling reviews infused with insight and business implications.
• Strategic and critical thinking, with ability to build credibility with Commercial Leadership Team.
• Knowledge of AZ brand and Science (Oncology in particular).
• Experience using Big Data.
• Exposure to SPARK.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving ability, and ability to grasp new concepts quickly.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.
• Work mode: in-person, a minimum of three days per week from the office.
• Date posted 16-Oct-2026; closing date 27-Oct-2026.