Data Scientist contractor (Market Research Analytics)

Title:                    Data Scientist (Statistical Analytics)

Job Type:            Full-time hours

Tenure:               Contractor (6 months, extendable)

Location:            Gurugram, India (hybrid), or India (remote)

Education:         Master’s degree (or equivalent)

The Data Scientist position is available as a contractor role for an initial 6 months, with the option to extend or potentially join the team on a permanent basis at the end of the contract.

About us:

We invite you to come grow with us.

Research Partnership (part of Inizio Advisory) is one of the world's largest pharma market research and consulting agencies with over 250 researchers, consultants, project managers and support staff. Our teams are located across the globe, in Europe (London, Lyon), North America (New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco) and Asia (Singapore, Gurugram).

As individuals with diverse backgrounds, as a team with shared values, as professionals ready to reimagine health and life sciences—you can grow with us at a place that:

• Makes a difference to human health
• Shares values and celebrates progress
• Puts people at the centre of everything

About the role:

The Data Scientist contractor role will work alongside colleagues in Europe, India and Singapore on a major Brand Equity tracking project for a regional client covering multiple Therapy Areas across a number of Asia Pacific markets. The position will report into the Analytics Director, based in the UK. This is a high profile client and project for our business, providing a platform for the project team to have a significant impact on the client’s brand strategies.

The role will involve applying programming skills, particularly in MS Excel VBA in conjunction with statistical skills to run analyses in SPSS/R/Q, while enriching the understanding of research executives as to the statistical and digital methodologies available to them, supporting at all stages of project progression.

About the team:

The Gurugram hub office is part of our global custom research team, reporting into Directors based in the UK office. This is an exciting period of growth for Research Partnership, as we expand into the fast-growing Indian market.

Our custom research team partners with global pharmaceutical and biotech clients to enable them to solve marketing, brand, advertising and communications problems through a mixture of innovative qualitative and quantitative market research techniques.

Your primary role:

As a Data Scientist, you will support the Analytics Director to deliver statistical analysis using primary market research data generated by the Research team. You will also support with advising the Research project teams on sample size and questionnaire design.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Building Excel tools such as market simulators (in Excel VBA) for conjoint, DCM, forecasting, and segmentation studies.
• Guidance and consultation regarding Excel and SPSS, actively engaging in department wide training initiatives to deepen understanding of available quantitative analytical & digital techniques and appropriate software packages
• Liaising with the Data Collection and Data Processing teams both in house and offshore, to ensure data is provided in the appropriate format for analysis
• Responding to day-to-day statistical questions (e.g. database design, sample design, sample size, selection of appropriate statistical tests and methodologies)
• Running and interpreting statistical analysis and contributing to study deliverables
• Supporting Directors and more senior researchers in their client facing activities
• Running choice models, conjoint analysis, experimental designs, segmentations, factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, regression and driver analysis, perceptual mapping, CHAID and CART, and categorical data analysis, and other methods as required

About You…

Your skills and experience:

• 3+ years of practical experience in a data science, market research advance methods, marketing science, or digital analytical unit is essential
• Practical experience working on analytics techniques:
  • Essential: Key Driver Analysis, MaxDiff, TURG
  • Desirable: Segmentation, Conjoint
• Sc in Applied Statistics, Mathematics or similar
• Experienced in use of analytics tools such as Excel VBA, R, SPSS

Ideal profile:

• You are proactive, dedicated and enthusiastic, with a ‘can do’ attitude and approach
• You demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, as well as strengths in organisation and prioritisation
• You are a collaborative team player who works well with colleagues
• You communicate ideas and issues in an effective, straightforward fashion
• You are highly motivated and want to seize opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career

Life at Research Partnership:

We love what we do and continuously strive for innovation and creativity. We believe everyone should continuously be learning and provide:

• A comprehensive training and development programme for all staff, from entry level apprentice to senior management
• Opportunities for international travel and collaboration
• A relaxed and friendly working environment

About Inizio Advisory:

Research Partnership is part of Inizio Advisory, a trusted advisor for pharmaceutical and life science companies that turns science into strategy, supporting execution at every stage of the product and patient journey from early commercialization to launch and beyond. Offering market research and insights; strategy; people and transformation consulting; and commercial benchmarking delivered through sector specific connected solutions and intelligence, Inizio Advisory helps create long-term value for clients and their patients.

Further information:

This is a full-time role, and is available either working in a hybrid pattern, based at our fantastic Inizio Advisory location in Gurugram, or on a remote worker basis elsewhere in India. This role’s working hours will be 11:00 to 20:00 IST in order to align to our European offices.