Job Description
Job Role – Senior Executive
About the Organisation
You will be joining a global life sciences and pharmaceutical organisation within Inizio Ignite, working across two highly specialised divisions—STEM Healthcare and Research Partnership. Together, these teams deliver strategic insights, benchmarking, market research, and performance acceleration solutions for global pharmaceutical, biotech, and medtech clients.
With teams operating across Europe, North America, Asia and Emerging Markets, and a rapidly growing operations hub in India, we offer the opportunity to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, multinational environment that:
- Makes a meaningful impact on human health
- Puts people at the centre
- Celebrates collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning
Vision, Mission & Values
Vision: To be an essential partner enabling clients to reach more patients.
Mission: To accelerate high performance across commercial, medical and operational functions.
Core Values: Brave | Honest | Performance Driven | Practical | Customer Focused | Caring
About the role:
The role of the Senior Project Executive is to cost and oversee the set up and management of fieldwork and data collection to ensure successful completion within best practices. You will also be expected to contribute to company operations processes; providing proactive ideas and plans about improving the efficiency of the project management function and projects. Core, but not exclusive, responsibilities will include:
- Responsibility for sourcing, obtaining and negotiating commercially advantageous costs from external suppliers and panel providers for Research Partnership project proposals
- Updating suppliers on the status of their quotes
- Overseeing the smooth running of fieldwork management
- Successful handover of project deliverables to research team:
- Coordination of Data Processing (DP) work and deliverables, based on specs and templates provided by the project team (Quant-only)
- Own, coordinate and update project timelines with internal research and external client and supplier stakeholders
- Take ownership for coordinating project team meetings,
- Responsibility for Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Event reporting
- Coordination of client and supplier Statements of Work (SOWs)
- Client and supplier invoice management (PO numbers, invoicing and liaison with Finance team)
- You will support team initiatives as a member of one of the department’s Pillars (Clients, Suppliers, People, Innovation, Operational Excellence)
About You…
Your skills and experience:
- More than 2 years of experience in market research project management (quantitative research)
- Experience managing healthcare market research projects
- Knowledge of the fieldwork agency landscape
- Strong project management skills (adhering to agreed timelines, troubleshooting and communication with internal and external stakeholders)
- Ability to multitask
- Collaboration and working as part of a team
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Excellent numerical skills
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
Work Environment
- Full-time role based in Gurgaon (Inizio Ignite office)
- Hybrid working model
Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.
Skills Required
- More than 2 years of experience in market research project management (quantitative research)
- Experience managing healthcare market research projects
- Knowledge of the fieldwork agency landscape
- Strong project management skills, including timeline adherence, troubleshooting, and stakeholder communication
- Ability to multitask and work under pressure to tight deadlines
- Collaboration and ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Excellent numerical skills
- Responsibility for pharmacovigilance and adverse event reporting
- Experience coordinating data processing (quantitative) and delivering per specifications
- Experience managing supplier contracts, SOWs, PO numbers and invoice processes
What We Do
Research Partnership, an Inizio Advisory company, is a world-leading market research partner for health and life science companies. We provide custom and syndicated research that delivers actionable insights and recommendations. Our passionate team is supported by centers of expertise in therapy areas, research methods and geographies. Through innovative design, robust data analysis, and consulting, we provide our clients with insights to make strategic decisions across the product lifecycle, driving commercial success and positive patient outcomes
