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About Xelay Acumen
Xelay Acumen, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is the premier strategy and management consulting firm serving biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and health care provider clients. Our engagements focus exclusively on high value-add for our clients’ most critically important issues and challenges.

At Xelay Acumen, Inc., our people are excited to help clients address their most pressing issues and challenges. We leverage the flexibility and expertise of our diverse network and organization and bring to bear an unparalleled combination of skill sets: strategic problem solving, rigorous analyses and methodologies, and clear and concise communications to bring about uniquely extraordinary results.
Responsibilities

The Business Associate role is a full-time consulting position to support, advise on, and implement key strategic initiatives, support strategic analyses of clinical, medical, and market data within the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and health care provider industry, and collaborate with client and team members to accomplish project engagement goals and objectives. Other responsibilities include:

Problem Solving: Conduct structured problem solving to address critical business issues
Analytics: Perform complex data analyses in support of ongoing and ad-hoc projects
Communication: Create, refine, and present recommendations to senior management

Desired Qualifications
Degree: Graduate degree, PhD, MD, PharmD

Skills:
Strong analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to conduct complex data analysis using analytical databases/tools, including Microsoft Excel (eg, pivot tables, LOOKUP, SUMIF, COUNTIF functions, etc)
Extensive experience with PowerPoint presentations in consulting or banking
Demonstrated ability to manipulate data, understand complexities, and generate reports/presentations and express implications of analysis
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Previous Experience:
Experience in consulting firm, market research firm, or financial analysis work
Experience with medical information in life science, biological science, pharmaceutical science, nursing, etc. strongly preferred

Interests:
Strong desire and openness to learning and trying unconventional approaches
Ability to relocate to the SF-Bay area

Detailed Job Description

OUR PEOPLE
Xelay Acumen Business Associates are a diverse group of highly qualified people with a wide range of backgrounds, from life sciences to business to medicine. Offering challenging and management responsibilities, broad business exposure and unrivaled career prospects, Xelay Acumen’s Associate role provides an unparalleled opportunity to apply knowledge, business intuition, and analytical rigor to real-world challenges, building invaluable skills and experience along the way. Associate candidates are MBA students, advanced degree (MD, JD, PhD, PharmD) candidates, professionals with consulting experience, and current Xelay Acumen Senior Analysts. It's a great way to set yourself up for future success—at Xelay Acumen and beyond. Associates are the heart and soul of our organization. They leverage their extensive backgrounds and expertise coupled with the Xelay Acumen training in leadership, consulting, and management to develop powerful insights and drive results for our cli ents. We invest heavily in our Associates, and believe in the apprenticeship model of management consulting. Associates at Xelay Acumen tackle the most advanced and difficult problems our clients face, including understanding and shaping new markets, helping frame new business and medical treatment models, assessing specific competitors' performance, performing due diligence, and driving it all to bottom-line financial returns and value creation.

Problem Solving
Structure problem solving to address critical business issues
Manage individual and team member work streams
Develop programs, methodologies, and files for analyzing and presenting data

Analytics
Perform complex data analyses in support of ongoing and ad-hoc projects
Research new data sources and analytical tools; contribute to new product development and improvement in product delivery and presentation
Use and support database applications and analytical tools: evaluate data quality, applications, and functions, produce output, maintain data assets
Perform in-depth pharmaceutical drug research, analysis and interpretation of pharmaceutical drug pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics
Create and manage data collection from web surveys

Communication
Create, refine, and present recommendations to senior management
Interpret and organize data results into executive summaries and professional consulting presentations
Be responsible for extensive medical writing, editing, source document review, and data extraction/verification, develop pharmaceutical medical content

Other Desired Skills & Experience:

Analytics
Strong analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to conduct complex data analysis using analytical databases/tools like Microsoft Excel (e.g., pivot tables, LOOKUP, SUMIF, COUNTIF functions, etc.). Demonstrated ability to manipulate data, understand complexities, and generate reports/presentations
Experience with large amounts of data (big data) and data warehouses
Basic statistical skills, including sample size, confidence intervals, linear correlation, regression analysis etc. Understanding of SAS, SPSS or other statistical analysis package
Project management, market research, questionnaire design, and website development experiences are a plus
Demonstrated drive for quality, a strong commitment to and affinity for delivering the highest level of data services and analyses
Experience creating and managing a website
Consulting
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Deep/expert experience with PowerPoint presentations
Flexible & creative, with a collaborative work style. Ability to establish / maintain effective working relationships. High-energy, self-motivated, and organized
Consulting firm, market research firm, or financial analysis work strongly preferred
Experience with conducting web surveys
Strong project management skills desired, but not required

Time requirements: Full-Time
Interested parties should apply via https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XelayAcumenJobs
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