▷ (Immediate Start) Analytics Manager

Are you passionate about turning real-world healthcare data into actionable insights that improve patient outcomes? At Prospection, we empower better healthcare decisions by uncovering meaning from large-scale health data sets and delivering powerful, data-driven strategies.

We’re hiring an Analytics Manager to join our fast-growing team. This player-coach role blends team leadership, client management, and hands-on analytics. You’ll apply advanced analytics, predictive modelling, and real-world data (RWD) to deliver high-impact outcomes for pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, and governments across Australia and globally.

In this role, you will lead and mentor a team of consultants, partner closely with our Client Solutions team and pharma stakeholders to clarify problems, design solutions, deliver analytical work, and present actionable insights. We’re looking for someone adept, flexible, and hungry - a manager who thrives on tackling complex pharma challenges end-to-end and driving measurable results

About Us

Prospection is a pioneer in healthcare analytics, applying machine learning, predictive modelling, and advanced SQL/Python analytics to real-world datasets—claims, EMR, registries, and supply chain. From immuno-oncology to hepatitis, our insights have supported 70+ therapy areas worldwide.

What Makes This Role Exciting?

- Be an early member of the India Analytics Centre of Excellence Team (COE) and play a key role in shaping its vision, standards, and ways of working.
- Gain hands-on exposure to diverse regions and healthcare systems—ANZ, Japan, and the US—enhancing both your technical expertise and domain knowledge
- Apply your analytical expertise to solve real-world problems while contributing to in-field R&D, helping define and shape the future of Prospection’s products.
- Take end-to-end ownership by combining people management responsibilities with a hands-on analytics role, driving meaningful results and team success

What You’ll Do

- Support the full lifecycle of pharmaceutical products—from development to market launch and post-market monitoring—using advanced analytics to uncover key trends and opportunities.
- Conduct market sizing, cohort analysis, risk stratification, and KPI modelling to inform product and marketing strategies.
- Build and optimise automated data pipelines (e.g., in Dataiku) to improve reporting efficiency and deliver faster insights.
- Develop and present interactive dashboards, visualisations, and executive presentations to communicate findings to stakeholders.
- Partner with Sales teams to translate analytical insights into scalable, productised solutions that align with our platform vision.
- Collaborate with regional analytics teams, sharing best practices in predictive modelling, machine learning, and advanced SQL querying to ensure consistent quality and innovation.
- Lead and mentor a team of consultants, setting strategic direction while actively contributing to delivery. Foster collaboration, drive high-quality outcomes, and build a culture of analytical excellence and continuous learning

Essential Criteria

- 5+ years’ experience working with pharma clients, leveraging longitudinal real-world patient datasets to solve use cases such as forecasting, brand performance tracking, prescriber targeting, segmentation, patient journeys, and omni-channel attribution.
- Strong solutioning mindset: able to engage directly with clients, unpack requirements through probing Q&A, translate business needs into analytical designs, and own the problem→solution path.
- Proven client communication skills: confident running pharma stakeholder meetings, handling back-and-forth to refine scope, and presenting insights.
- Team leadership: experience managing and mentoring analysts/scientists; setting standards, reviewing work, and building repeatable best practices.
- Technical excellence: advanced SQL (joins, windows, aggregations); Python (NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, XGBoost); data viz in Power BI; power-user of Excel (VBA/Macros, Power Query). Able to take a brief and query/shape data end-to-end independently.
- Healthcare analytics background with real-world/claims/EMR data; comfortable with clinical context (e.g., indications, lines of therapy, persistence, switching) and quick to learn unfamiliar disease areas.
- Familiarity with PBS data is preferred, or a demonstrated ability to quickly get up to speed
- Degree in a quantitative field (Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Health Economics) or equivalent experience.
- Mindset: hungry, curious, and proactive - eager to learn and continuously raise the bar for the team.

Why Join Prospection?

- Impact: Work on projects that improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes globally.
- Growth: Be part of a rapidly scaling company with career advancement opportunities.
- Culture: Join a collaborative, mission-driven team passionate about healthcare and data.
- Learning: Access professional development, mentorship, and exposure to advanced analytics technologies.

If you’re ready to use your skills in SQL, Python, predictive modelling, and healthcare data analytics to make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you.