Decision Analytics Associate Consultant - Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls
About the role
ZS is seeking a Decision Analytics Associate Consultant with experience in pharmaceutical drug development and tech transfer. The role involves delivering projects in the pharmaceutical CMC development area for ZS clients, including serving as a subject matter expert on drug substance and drug product manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Leverage quantitative skills to derive answers to clients' ongoing business analytics and reporting questions
- Collaborate with clients to understand their specific business information needs
- Upskill on concepts relevant to solving client problems across modalities
- Execute a specific plan for analyzing the data necessary to secure solutions to clients' particular business information needs
- Discuss and determine with clients which specific data may be best utilized in performing the necessary analysis
- Evaluate, assess, and analyze the data necessary to provide solutions to the client's particular business information needs
- Communicate the data results to the client, emphasizing the answer to the business question rather than the analytical and reporting processes used
- Gain immediate familiarity with client's internal processes
- Develop expertise within a client analytics area
- Be available for clients during regular working hours
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree required in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Material Engineering, Chemistry, Biotechnology or similar degree
- 2-4 years of relevant post-collegiate job experience. A PhD may substitute in lieu of work experience
- Hands-on experience with at least one of the functions in CMC development such as Process Chemistry, Process Engineering, Formulation, and Analytical Chemistry
- Knowledge of key concepts including unit operations, processes, quality by design (QbD), tech transfer, process validation, quality attributes, and regulatory milestones across pharma development
- Understanding of the different data and information systems such as ELN, LIMS, ERP systems, and LCM or PLM systems
- Understanding of the CMC related regulatory submission requirements
- Able to translate the knowledge of concepts in one modality to other modalities, if needed
- Experience with at least one tech transfer, explore to analytics, AI and/or technology implementation in CMC preferred
- High motivation, good work ethic, maturity and personal initiative
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Empathy, adaptability and emotional intelligence
- Close attention to detail, with a quality-focused mindset
- Self-discipline for planning and organizing tasks
- Aptitude for, and enjoyment of, working in teams
- Client-first mentality
- Intense work ethic
- Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach
Qualifications
- Fluency in English
- Personal interests, identities, and desire to learn are integral to your success here
Skills
- Quantitative skills
- Data analytics
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Technical expertise in CMC development
Benefits
At ZS, your growth matters. We offer a comprehensive total rewards package that supports your health and well-being, financial future, time away, and professional development. With robust skills-building programs, multiple career progression paths, internal mobility, and a deeply collaborative culture, you'll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, expand your capabilities, and thrive as part of a global community.
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Company Information
ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, we transform ideas into impact by bringing together data, science, technology and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for all. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide. ZSers drive impact by bringing a client-first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business.