Job ID: 78886
Company Name: Covance, Inc. Approximate Salary: Not Specified
Location: Princeton, New Jersey Country: United States
Industry: Marketing Position type: Full Time
Experience level: Required: Demonstrated, relevant analytical experience Excellent research skills A business acumen Intermediate/advanced MS PowerPoint, Word, Excel skillsPreferred: Some expertise with pharmaceutical or biotech companies or the pharmaceutical R&D develop Education level: Bachelors degree (Life Science, Business Administration, preferred) with 3-5 years of relevant professional experience (healthcare / pharma industry preferred) or a recent MBA seeking entry position in the Life Sciences.
Short Description
Sales/Marketing
Long Description
This position in Business Intelligence will provide research and analytical support to projects defined and prioritized within the Business Intelligence & Market Research function. This position will serve the role as a Corporate resource for secondary data, particularly data emanating from pharmaceutical pipeline databases and other sources of information. In this role, the incumbent will coordinate an information services network across the family of Covances business, and ensure that we optimally leverage our spend for information across all businesses.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Provide support to all activities and projects within Business Intelligence & Market Research
Research, analyze and report information from a variety of secondary sources, including vendor databases, website sources, and print.
Negotiate and maintain contractual agreements with information vendors.
Establish a Covance internal information network to coordinate the purchase and use of pharmaceutical and business databases that best leverage Covances operational business, strategic plans and growth initiatives.
Develop and maintain an industry database of top pharmaceutical and biotech companies that contains retrievable and insightful information about the industry from a CRO perspective.
Produce reports that may originate from analysis of a variety of sources. Potential topics include:
- Pharmaceutical and Biotech R&D spend and productivity analysis
- Regulatory updates
- Competitor benchmarking
- Company financials collection and analysis
- Dashboard reports on industry metrics
- Clinical trials analysis
Develop an expert knowledge of pharmaceutical databases and leverage them appropriately to the business need. In so doing, this position will evaluate sources of information for relevance, dependability, accuracy and overall cost effectiveness, comparing new sources and/or methods of analyzing CRO industry trends with existing methods to optimally support Corporate Sales & Marketing goals.
Establish and maintain an "e-library" to enhance efficiencies in Business Intelligence communications and sharing of information across the organization, leveraging portals and software tools (eg Sharepoint) that may already exist in the company.
Support, as appropriate, cross departmental Corporate Sales & Marketing needs and strategic planning needs, e.g.:
- Sales Operations, by assisting with information capturing target pipelines from industry databases and/or creating target company key fact sheets.
- Marketing, by assisting with the process for launching new service offerings (i.e. supporting development with business case research).
