Senior Analyst, Data Strategy & Acquisition

About the role

Roche India (Roche Services and Solutions, Hyderabad / Chennai) is hiring a Senior Data Strategy & Acquisition Analyst within its GATE team. You will become a subject-matter expert on the U.S. healthcare data landscape, proactively scouting, evaluating and unlocking new data assets for Roche's U.S. commercial organization, and acting as a thought partner to brand, market access, forecasting, field operations and advanced analytics teams across therapeutic areas.

Key responsibilities

• Own the evaluation, acquisition and lifecycle management of a broad portfolio of U.S. healthcare data assets, including claims, EHR/EMR and clinical real-world data, specialty pharmacy and hub data, lab and biomarker/genomic testing data, payer and formulary intelligence, sales and distribution, provider reference data, patient-level longitudinal data and competitive intelligence.
• Track the U.S. data vendor and real-world data market, recommend new datasets and use cases, and benchmark vendors head-to-head through structured bake-offs and overlap analyses.
• Partner with stakeholders in Oncology, Ophthalmology, CVRM, Neurology, Immunology and Rare Disease to turn their commercial questions into fit-for-purpose data requirements.
• Act as the primary technical counterpart to external data vendors, resolving data quality queries and supporting renewal and expansion discussions.
• Perform hands-on profiling, cross-source comparison and validation, quantifying gaps and challenging assumptions.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Bioinformatics, Public Health, Healthcare, Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Engineering or a related discipline.
• 5-8+ years of experience in pharma/biotech commercial analytics, healthcare data strategy, life sciences consulting or a healthcare data vendor; prior experience in data acquisition, data strategy, data governance or RWD evaluation is strongly preferred.
• Hands-on exposure to several of the listed data types (claims, EHR/EMR, data linkage, specialty pharmacy, payer intelligence, provider reference, competitive intelligence, emerging assets).
• Demonstrated exposure to Oncology, Ophthalmology or CVRM; Rare disease, neurology or immunology exposure is a strong plus.
• Strong analytical reasoning, consultative stakeholder engagement and structured problem solving.

Required skills

• Proficiency in SQL or similar tools for extracting, profiling and validating large patient-level datasets.
• Ability to create visualizations in widely used platforms.