The Role
Beghou brings over three decades of experience helping life sciences companies optimize their commercialization through strategic insight, advanced analytics, and technology. From developing go-to-market strategies and building foundational data analytics infrastructures to leveraging artificial intelligence to improve customer insights and engagement, Beghou helps life sciences companies maximize performance across their portfolios. Beghou also deploys proprietary and third-party technology solutions to help companies forecast performance, design territories, manage customer data, organize, and report on medical and commercial data, and more. Headquartered in Evanston, Illinois, we have 10 global offices.
Our mission is to bring together analytical minds and innovative technology to help life sciences companies navigate the complexity of health care and improve patient outcomes.
Purpose of Job
The Senior GRC Analyst is instrumental in advancing Beghou’s governance, risk management, and compliance efforts. This role leads initiatives to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risk, while ensuring rigorous adherence to internal policies and external regulatory requirements. As a key advisor across business and technology functions, the Senior GRC Analyst develops and maintains robust frameworks, controls, and processes that enable a secure and compliant operating environment.
The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills, deep GRC expertise, and the ability to translate complex regulatory and risk concepts into clear, actionable approaches. This role requires engagement across functions, including leadership, IT, HR, Finance, Commercial, and external stakeholders.
We'll trust you to:
- Drive and support Beghou’s GRC initiatives across both business and technical domains.
- Partner with GRC leadership to deliver strategic and operational risk and compliance objectives.
- Maintain and enhance policies, procedures, and controls in alignment with industry best practices, client requirements, and applicable regulations.
- Monitor compliance with Beghou’s internal standards through internal and third-party assessments.
- Identify and execute on opportunities to improve compliance processes and align with evolving frameworks.
- Manage and maintain documentation for policies, controls, compliance activities, and risk assessments.
- Coordinate and support internal and external audit activities, including evidence collection and response management.
- Conduct risk assessments and vendor evaluations and manage associated mitigation and remediation plans.
- Leverage GRC tools and technologies to streamline documentation, risk tracking, evidence management, and audit support.
- Stay abreast of regulatory developments and emerging risks affecting Beghou and its clients.
- Serve as a liaison with business and technical stakeholders, as well as clients, auditors, and regulators.
- Champion compliance awareness and best practices through training and internal engagement.
You'll need to have:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of 3 years of direct GRC experience (policy, risk, audits, assessments) and 5+ years of overall professional experience.
- Strong knowledge of formal assessment frameworks (SOC, ISO 27001, NIST).
- Familiarity with global data privacy and cybersecurity laws (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, GxP).
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously and independently.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong organizational skills and a methodical approach to problem-solving.
- Experience in the life sciences or pharmaceutical consulting sector is a plus.
- Professional certifications (e.g., CISA, CRISC, CISSP, CIPM) are a plus.
At Beghou Consulting, you'll join a highly collaborative, values-driven team where technical excellence, analytical rigor, and personal growth converge. Whether you're passionate about AI innovation, building commercialization strategies, or shaping the next generation of data-first solutions in life sciences, this is a place to make an impact!
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The Company
What We Do
Beghou Consulting provides sales force and marketing consulting services to clients in the pharmaceutical and health care industries. We bring significant expertise in addressing sales and marketing issues and in developing advanced analytic approaches to support our clients' decision-making.
We pride ourselves on our growing list of long-term clients, for whom we deliver an increasing array of services and analyses. Our clients are developing and launching innovative, high-profile products, and as such require a partner that provides similarly innovative insights and processes to support their sales force and marketing management.
