--- title: 'Senior Manager at Inizio' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-manager-inizio-gurugram-k7xv01nkadmx' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Senior Manager at Inizio - **Company:** Inizio - **Location:** Gurugram, India - **Posted:** 2026-05-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/inizio/jobs/7965093 ## Job description About Inizio Ignite: Inizio Ignite is the global advisory partner for health and life sciences, encompassing connected expertise across Research Partnership, Putnam, Vynamic, and STEM. Guided by purpose, passion, and precision, we collaborate with clients to ignite impact, accelerate performance, and deliver lasting change for patients. By uniting strategy, insights, and innovation with a unique depth and breadth of expertise, we drive transformation and shape the future of health. Company Descriptor Inizio Ignite is the global advisory partner for health and life sciences, encompassing connected expertise across Research Partnership, Putnam, Vynamic, and STEM. Guided by purpose, passion, and precision, we collaborate with clients to ignite impact, accelerate performance, and deliver lasting change for patients. By uniting strategy, insights, and innovation with a unique depth and breadth of expertise, we drive transformation and shape the future of health. Our Research Partnership healthcare market research team provides research and insights to inform and power healthcare decisions. Serving a variety of clients across the lifecycle, our expertise includes data, research & insights (proprietary syndicated and custom research) and brand tracking (ATU). Proudly part of Inizio – the market-leading commercialization partner for health and life sciences. From early-stage development to loss of exclusivity, we simplify complexity, unlock value, and make collaboration seamless at every pivotal moment – supporting confident, insight-driven decisions that move innovation forward. ## Role Overview The Associate Director will co-manage the Research Partnership hub, reporting to a Director. You will be part of a collaborative global team, working alongside experienced researchers and contributing to the delivery of high-quality research across a range of projects. ## What you'll be doing - Your role will be to oversee project teams and the delivery of quantitative research projects and ensuring high-quality outputs across all stages of the research process. - You will act as the primary point of contact with clients on day-to-day project delivery, ensuring their needs are met, while escalating and aligning with the Project Lead where appropriate. - You will be responsible for shaping the research approach, including input into project scope and questionnaire design (as well as directly contributing to writing questionnaires, where required), ensuring alignment with client objectives and business questions. - You will oversee and the analysis and reporting process, while also contributing hands-on where needed, ensuring deliverables are clear, insight-led and delivered to a consistently high standard. - You will co-lead and develop the India-based research team, with responsibility for performance management, personal development, training and recruitment, ensuring high levels of engagement. - You will be responsible for the quality of the work completed by the team you manage, setting clear expectations for quality and consistency and provide feedback and coaching to ensure the team delivers to the required standards. - You will write proposals, identifying opportunities for growth and contributing to revenue generation. - You will also help shape team strategy and ways of working, ensuring alignment with broader organisational objectives and best practices. ## What you'll need - At least 9 years of experience in market research, including within the healthcare industry - Have significant experience in leading projects and client management - A desire to progress your business development skills, with the ultimate aim of generating your own clients Ideal candidate should be - You are proactive, dedicated and enthusiastic, with a ‘can do’ attitude and approach - You demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, as well as strengths in organisation and prioritisation - You are a collaborative team player who works well with colleagues - You communicate ideas and issues in an effective, straightforward fashion - You are highly motivated and want to seize opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career Artificial Intelligence Inizio may use AI technologies to support certain aspects of our recruitment process, but all hiring decisions are made by our human recruiting team. We are committed to fair, inclusive, and human-led hiring practices. Don't meet every requirement? That's okay! We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others. Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others. ## About Inizio ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Inizio is a global strategic partner for health and life sciences companies, providing advisory, medical, marketing, communications, and patient engagement services across the entire drug lifecycle. - **Entity Type**: Private (ownership structure not publicly disclosed) - **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom - **Founded**: Not publicly available (formed from the combination of Ashfield and Huntsworth) - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Healthcare and life sciences consulting, commercialization, medical communications, marketing, and patient engagement. - Target customers: B2B – top 20 global pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as emerging biotech firms. - Mission or purpose statement: "Empowering health and life sciences companies to transform patients’ lives." ## Products & Services - **Inizio Engage**: Strategic commercial and creative engagement – designing personalized experiences to engage patients, employees, MSLs, and healthcare providers, improving treatment outcomes. - **Inizio Evoke**: Marketing and communications – a global health marketing, communications, and transformation platform using data-driven insights, creativity, and human centricity. - **Inizio Ignite**: Strategy, transformation & insights – global advisory partner for health and life sciences, uniting strategy, insights, and innovation. - **Inizio Medical**: Medical affairs & scientific communications – combining scientific expertise, technology, and creativity to create compelling content and experiences for healthcare communities. - **Inizio Biotech**: Personalized biotech solutions maximizing asset value – mitigating risks, making strategic decisions, and maximizing product value. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: 10,500 experts across 50 countries, serving every top 20 pharma company worldwide (based on Rx sales 2025-2027). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed; clients include the world’s largest pharmaceutical and biotech companies. - **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (10,500 employees), global presence across 50 countries, launch of five specialist business units under the Inizio brand, and expansion of data & AI capabilities. ## Competitive Advantages - Unmatched scale and scientific expertise with a team of PhDs and 800 nurses on staff. - Deep, broad capabilities across the full drug lifecycle (discovery to loss of exclusivity). - Proprietary technology, AI, and human insight combined in an "Intelligent Commercialization™" platform. - Single point of contact and dedicated account teams with rigorous governance and seamless project delivery. - Trusted by every top 20 pharma company globally. ## Strategic Focus - Driving "Intelligent Commercialization™" – connecting data, technology, and AI with expert insight to accelerate product impact. - Expanding data & AI capabilities across all business units. - Building integrated, tech-enabled solutions from pre-launch through post-launch. - Continuing to grow through talent acquisition and capability building in key markets (India, UK, US, Japan, Ireland). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasizes autonomy, experimentation, learning, and being your true self at work. Core commitments: "Be where the growth is", "Help build a healthier world", "Make your mark", "We do the right thing", "We empower everyone", "We rise to the challenge", "We work as one". - **Remote/Hybrid**: Many roles offer remote or hybrid working (e.g., US remote, Gurugram, London, Manchester, Dublin, Tokyo). Dynamic and hybrid working is supported. - **Learning & Development**: 70-20-10 model (learning through experience, exposure, education), global leader and manager accelerator programs, tailored capability programs. - **Wellbeing**: Employee Assistance Programs, counseling, mental health first aiders, subsidized meditation/wellbeing apps, wellbeing lunch & learns, mental health speaker series, time-to-talk sessions, line manager mental health training. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to enhancing inclusion globally, incorporating health equity lens, and expanding community engagement. - **Purpose**: Work directly impacts getting life-changing treatments to patients faster, providing a strong sense of purpose. ## Sources 1. [inizio.com](https://inizio.com/) 2. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/inizio](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/inizio) 3. [inizio.com/join-inizio](https://inizio.com/join-inizio/) 4. [inizio.com/join-inizio/vacancies](https://inizio.com/join-inizio/vacancies/) 5. 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