POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Manager will lead strategic Competitive Intelligence engagements for pharmaceutical and life sciences clients, with responsibility for client relationships, delivery quality, people leadership, and account growth.
The role requires the ability to independently engage senior client stakeholders, translate business priorities into intelligence needs, provide strategic direction to project teams, and ensure outputs deliver explicit insights, implications, and recommendations. The Senior Manager will also contribute to capability development, innovation, AI-enabled delivery, and business development.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead and manage multiple complex CI engagements, ensuring strategic oversight and alignment across client accounts.
- Serve as a principal client contact, effectively managing expectations, priorities, risks, and evolving business needs.
- Translate business inquiries into clear Key Intelligence Topics (KITs), Key Intelligence Questions (KIQs), and appropriate analytical approaches.




- Guide comprehensive competitive assessments encompassing clinical, regulatory, commercial, and market developments.
- Synthesize intelligence into actionable insights, implications, scenarios, and strategic recommendations.
- Oversee engagements related to competitor monitoring, market assessments, launch readiness, business development opportunities, lifecycle planning, and conference intelligence.
- Manage conference programs including planning, prioritization, reporting, synthesis, and client debriefs.
- Review and challenge team outputs to ensure analytical depth, accuracy, storyline coherence, and executive-ready communication.
- Oversee project scope, timelines, resource allocation, utilization, quality, budgets, and delivery risks.
- Proactively identify and resolve client, project, and team-related risks.
- Coach and mentor Managers, Associate Managers, and junior team members, supporting their performance management and capabilit

📌 Senior Manager – Competitive Intelligence Pharma analytics and insights (Bengaluru)
🏢 C5i
📍 Bengaluru