Sr. Product Analyst
Overview
About Certara Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries. Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry’s use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization. As a Senior Product Analyst embedded in one of our Software divisions, you belong to the functional team whose work encompasses product strategy, product delivery, product management & product operations. You and your colleagues in Product Management specifically are charged with: —Targeting R&D investments towards maximum value for customers and business ROI. —Being accountable for decision-making, problem selection, and business outcomes. —Guiding product lifecycle from ideation to development to go-to-market to scaled product-market-fit. Under weekly oversight, you will drive substantial improvements of new and existing features—fully occupying 1-4 full-time engineers to deliver on involved projects.
Responsibilities
Execution & Delivery o Cross-team Collaboration - Navigates the software development process and reviews the work of engineers and test engineers against self-written success criteria - Peer-reviews others' ideas, with reasonable sense of internal/external impacts/risks/constraints. o Judgement & Decision Making - Gathers requirements for user stories of meaningful value - Documents client use cases, decisions, and business logic to allow full visibility for the team, keeping pace with evolving, complex, domain-specific requirements -Translates leaders' product visions into actionable priorities - Frames decisions with clear objectives and context, trading off passably among internal vs external stakeholder needs. o Responsibility for Outcomes -Involved in proposing resource investments and monitors the outcomes, including tracking of metrics such as near-term project budget and long-term user adoption. Research & Strategy o Stakeholder Engagement -Without prompting, interviews clients with deep counter-questioning and offers insightful conclusions. o Data & Market Analysis -Interprets existing data analytics from multiple sources, and references competitors' offerings, to measure impact of present R&D efforts. o Thought Leadership - Explains the product well when called upon to internal (e.g., sales) audiences and clients via more formal sessions - Attends tradeshows to gather intel and is a co-author for at least one publication or presentation per year (company webinars, industry journals, 3rd party conferences, etc.)
Qualifications
Must Have o Fastidious for facts, insistent on evidence- and data-driven choices, able to separate signal from noise o Systems-thinking and ability to predict or extrapolate to second, third, and fourth order effects (if A, then B, then C, then D…) o Adept at analytics, independent research, unscripted interviews, and other intel-gathering techniques o Not afraid to speak up and veto a bad idea, or have your ideas vetoed (our default is “NO”) in favor of what our team decided to prioritize next o Curious about our clients and products, cautious with our brand and industry goodwill, conscientious in follow-through o Willing to learn and serve, flexible in adapting to rapid organizational change, receptive of constructive criticism o High tolerance for ambiguity, low tolerance for mess; able to create order out of chaos, attend to details, and push quality higher o Relentlessly resourceful and discerning in solving problems independently vs. seeking help from others; brave yet humble in working across multi-disciplinary teams where each person is more of an expert than you in their chosen field Preferred o Intimate familiarity with a specific scientific domain, such as biosimulation, PK/PD modelling, clinical trial data standardization and analysis, etc. o Ability to work in a remote position requiring constant spoken and written communication; skill in exerting influence (even on company founders, owners, and partners) without leverage or managerial authority o Education or qualifications relating to business, programming, data science, health sciences, medical writing, customer support, project management, or corporate communications o Experience working for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor, clinical laboratory, pharmaceutical company, or Contract Research Organization Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.