Join a great team to drive healthcare forward!

We are looking for an enthusiastic Associate Healthcare Consultant with a lot of natural curiosity to join our Analytics Solutions team. The team is a Consulting team and exists of professionals with different backgrounds and expertise, such as: real-world data, Biomedical Sciences, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, business, market research, data analytics, linguistics, business, and social psychology.

With our multidimensional solutions and offerings, we are dedicated to drive healthcare forward, together with stakeholders in healthcare. To increase our impact on healthcare, we would like to strengthen our Analytics Solutions team and are therefore looking for a passionate Associate Healthcare Consultant with a curiosity and data driven mindset. Passion for improving healthcare and having a societal impact is a plus.

Within our team, we partner with commercial, medical and business insights teams in the life sciences sector (Pharmaceutical, MedTech and Consumer Health companies) to support them leveraging and interpreting data and make evidenced-based decisions for their strategy. In recent years, we have extended our partnership with other healthcare stakeholders, such as hospitals, patient organizations, government, healthcare insurers and healthcare researchers. Our team has a strong presence within the Dutch IQVIA organization and our Amsterdam office. There are lots of opportunities to develop your own ideas in collaboration with a diverse and talented group of coworkers and to connect with colleagues in and outside of work.

Tasks and responsibilities

As an Associate Healthcare Consultant, you will be responsible for the execution of our client projects under the supervision of Healthcare Consultants, Senior Healthcare Consultants and/or Engagement Managers. You will be in direct contact with our healthcare clients, write briefings to our analyst teams and translate the results in high quality deliverables including conclusions & recommendations. You are in direct contact with your clients and you will receive customer experience trainings. You will be working in a high-paced, high-complexity environment where you will need to balance a combination of recurring and new projects in various disease areas working with various methodologies in rotating project teams. You are responsible for:

• Translating client questions into briefing documents
• Quality checking results provided by our analyst teams or fieldwork collection teams
• Turning results into high quality insights (lay-out and content) through PPT or dashboarding solutions
• Asking relevant questions internally and externally
• Writing first draft conclusions and recommendations
• Align internally across multiple teams for your recurrent deliveries with high touch point clients
• Developing client relationships for recurrent deliveries under your care
• (Co)Presenting results during client meetings
• Managing multiple deadlines pro-actively and managing your own planning

Required knowledge, skills & abilities

Formal qualifications and experience

• MSc. or equivalent background in biomedical sciences, epidemiology, business, communication, healthcare or other potentially relevant backgrounds
• Proven strength in data analytics
• Affinity with consulting and client interactions
• Healthcare market knowledge and experience is not required, affinity is a plus
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Experience with Spotfire, Power BI, MicroStrategy or other data visualization software is a plus
• Experience with programming languages is a plus (Matlab, SPSS, Python, R, SAS, etc)
• Fluent in Dutch and English

Specific skills and abilities

• Data analytical and organizational skills       
• Ability to interpret data and translate the outcome of the analyses into insights
• Shows the ability to manage multiple projects, juggle priorities and deliver on tight deadlines
• Knows or is eager to learn about the challenges in healthcare
• Knows or is eager to learn about influencing, selling, and change processes
• Soft skills:
  • Spirit of accountability, sense of initiative and continuous improvement
  • Confidence and assertiveness
  • A positive drive with a hands-on spirit and a pragmatic approach
  • Team player and ability to work in a multicultural/multi-disciplinary team
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills
  • Stays calm in a chaotic situation
  • Is curious and asks questions
  • Challenges the status quo
  • Is not afraid to make mistakes
  • Has a learning mindset
  • Is quickly able to learn and adapt
  • Drives a positive customer experience

Location

Based at our office in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost with the flexibility to work from home. You will join client meetings F2F or virtually.

What is in it for you?

• Join a company with a great societal purpose: the opportunity to together drive healthcare forward
• A key job in a growing department, residing in a dynamic multinational company. You will have the benefit of working for an entrepreneurial department but with the larger career opportunities of working for a large company
• Opportunity to work with people with diverse expertise on a large variety of projects across different therapeutic areas
• Great team and company spirit, with lots of opportunities to connect inside and outside of work (network drinks, team and company events, sports activities)
• Autonomy, flexibility and the opportunity to do your work in the way it works best to you, as long as you deliver on your responsibilities
• An onboarding program, HR framework and a committed line manager to support your personal development
• Welfare program

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