R&D - Technical Market Analysis (Clinical Research / Patent Analysis)
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Identifies and defines the objective of a research project and determines the best methods to use to meet those objectives.
- Perform market analysis, consumer needs identification, and consumer / product / desk research and testing activities in line with global requests and ad hoc inquiries as required
- Compiles data related to competitor’s product, strategies, channel dynamics, sales, marketing, R&D or distribution methods
- Perform benchmarking of R&D capabilities against other CPG/FMCG/ Food and Beverage/Health and Nutrition/Life Science industry peers (global and local companies)
- Summarize and analyze data and makes recommendations related to research findings
- Ensure all requests are processed, documented, and delivered within defined SLAs
- Reports findings, complete with graphs illustrating data and written text explaining complex findings
- Appetite to scan through scientific research, search patents and draw out trends and technical direction of a functional area
- Conduct new idea feasibility analysis to generate insights for the advancement of R&D
- Delivers reports and presentation of findings in a concise, structured and story-telling way to executive leadership
- Foster and leverage working relationships with other GBS Technical Market Analysis teams in Hyderabad
- Identify potential areas for process improvements and employee upskilling to make recommendations to Technical Market Analysis team lead for continuous capability / employee development
- Academic: Bachelor’s degree required (Chemical Engineering, Food Technology, Pharma or any other science field; Master's degree a plus (MBA, MLS, MLIS, or any other science field
- Work experience: 4-6 years of prior work experience in similar or related field
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
- Detail-oriented, business problem solving and logical reasoning skills, advanced analytical research skills to discover insights that will guide strategic decisions for business
- Strong organizational and communication skills to deliver and report on outputs and insights discovered from conducted scientific research and analysis
- Understanding of Service Management processes
- Ability to manage time effectively across multiple priorities and projects to ensure requests are delivered in a timely manner
- Experience working in a large global CPG / FMCG/ Food and Beverage/Health and Nutrition company, with understanding of the CPG performance outputs and measures
- Exposure to MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and MS Word
- Fluent in English