Assistant Manager-Research at WNS Global Services

Gurgaon, haryana, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

09 Aug, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

11 May, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Patent Research, Competitive Intelligence, Secondary Research, Intellectual Property Analysis, Scientific Writing, Market Landscape Analysis, Freedom To Operate Studies, Prior Art Search, Pharma Healthcare Domain Knowledge, Patent Database Proficiency, Report Writing, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Project Management, Data Analysis, Stakeholder Management

Industry

Business Consulting and Services

Description

Company Description WNS, part of Capgemini, is an Agentic AI-powered leader in intelligent operations and transformation, serving more than 700 clients across 10 industries, including Banking and Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Shipping and Logistics, and Travel and Hospitality. We bring together deep domain excellence – WNS’ core differentiator – with AI-powered platforms and analytics to help businesses innovate, scale, adapt and build resilience in a world defined by disruption.Our purpose is clear: to enable lasting business value by designing intelligent, human-led solutions that deliver sustainable outcomes and a differentiated impact. With three global headquarters across four continents, operations in 13 countries, 65 delivery centers and more than 66,000 employees, WNS combines scale, expertise and execution to create meaningful, measurable impact. Job Description Competitive Intelligence (CI + Patent Experience). Having strong patent expertise, with up to 5-7 years of experience. Candidates having prior experience in packaging. Job Title: Assistant Manager Location: Gurgaon Qualification: Respiratory/Pain/Digestive Health/Skin Health: Masters in Pharma/Life Sciences/Medicine/ Biomedical engineering/ Allied fields, with relevant post-qualification experience in the patent, scientific, and/or business research space Experience: 4-6 years for AM of post-qualification experience in patent research for Consumer Healthcare or pharmaceutical business research/KPO Minimum qualification required to man the position: M.Pharm/MSc/MBBS/BDS Minimum experience required to man the position: 4 years ROLE DESCRIPTION 1. ROLE OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE A functional expert, well versed with patent search and analysis to gather scientific and competitive intelligence for consumer healthcare to generate solutions/answers relevant to client’s key intelligent questions Conduct Intellectual property research and analysis efforts for identification, analysis and reporting of project-relevant data to derive meaningful/actionable insights Typical projects include market landscape, company profiling, novel product launches, competitor strategy analysis, scientific literature analysis Execution of short turnaround and long-term projects DETAILED DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, wherever applicable Key Responsibility Indicators People Related: Team work - Collaborate with the team, good interpersonal communication, professional conduct, actively participate in team related activities Guidance to team members and review of deliverables as and when needed Process Related: Operations Management – Implements and follows processes and makes recommendations for process improvements Participates actively in hiring and retaining talent Project management skills Domain Expertise Demonstrating expertise or quickly gaining knowledge and building expertise in an area of interest Developing optimum search strategy, screen and analyse patent families to gather scientific and competitive intelligence for consumer healthcare to generate solutions/answers relevant to client’s key intelligent questions Experience in performing comprehensive patent searches using various databases (PatBase, Thomson Innovation, Questel (Orbit), Innography, STN database (CAPLUS, DERWENT), Micropatent, etc.) Efficiency – Effective retrieval of information by identifying relevant data sources, formulating efficient search strategies, critically evaluate information and organize data for analysis Accuracy - Ability to assess validity of sources, accuracy of information gathered, data gaps if any and steps to plug in the data gaps Quality & Presentation of reports – Good scientific writing with well- structured and formatted content, correct usage of English language, usage of right templates and audience-appropriate representations; ensuring quality of reports that offer contextually relevant insights in the Patent domain Ability to liaise with IT experts to accelerate development with automation and advancements in IP domain KEY INTERACTIONS (iNTERNAL/EXTERNAL CUSTOMERS) Internal External Team Members Client Stakeholders COMPETENCIES & SKILL SET Must have: Expertise in secondary research with experience in using databases and open sources. Clear understanding and exposure to OTC/Consumer/Pharma Healthcare space, demonstrate clear acumen in competitive intelligence, scientific and business research Proven strengths/clear aptitude in performing patent analysis and deriving competitor insights Exposure to broad variety of work in the IP domain including (but not limited to): Identified key application areas of a given technology to help assess its patentability Compared patent pending technology with competing technologies based on cost & ease of use Analyzed scope of patents by understanding their claims & reviewing similar patents Conducted search for relevant prior art to assess patentability of given technology Conducted freedom to operate studies and prior art searches in the field of healthcare/ biotech/ electronics/ software Demonstrated familiarity and strengths in performing information searches/addressing queries in Patent Databases such as Thomson Innovation, Questel (Orbit), Innography, STN database (CAPLUS, DERWENT), Micropatent, PatBase. Clear understanding and exposure to OTC/Consumer/Pharma Healthcare space, demonstrate clear acumen in competitive intelligence, scientific and business research Report writing skills - creating reports that offer contextually relevant insights Knowledge on MS Office (esp. PowerPoint and basic Excel) and Internet searching skills are mandatory Must exhibit following core behaviors: Ownership / accountability Flexibility to work on cross-team projects across all domains skills Good to have: Awareness of market landscape, current developments, leading players, clinical research and products Should understand the regulatory climate relevant to OTC/Rx space esp. in US/Europe Knowledge of data visualization tools incl. charts and graphs, smart arts etc Exposure to scouting projects or experience in identifying key partners/collaborators for product development

Responsibilities

The role involves conducting intellectual property research and patent analysis to gather scientific and competitive intelligence for consumer healthcare. Key duties include executing market landscapes, company profiling, and delivering actionable insights through well-structured reports.