Description
About Us

At Norstella, our mission is simple: to help our clients bring life-saving therapies to market quicker-and help patients in need. Founded in 2022, but with history going back to 1939, Norstella unites best-in-class brands to help clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle -and get the right treatments to the right patients at the right time.

Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making. Together, via our market-leading brands, we help our clients:

• Citeline - accelerate the drug development cycle

• Evaluate - bring the right drugs to market

• MMIT - identify barrier to patient access

• Panalgo - turn data into insight faster

• The Dedham Group - think strategically for specialty therapeutics

By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics. As one of the largest global pharma intelligence solution providers, Norstella has a footprint across the globe with teams of experts delivering world class solutions in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Japan, China and India.

Job Summary

The role of Consultant, Competitive Intelligence & AI Enablement is a strategic individual contributor position, responsible for leading innovation in how AI-native solutions are able to address a competitive intelligence use case in the life science sector. The role combines deep industry knowledge, process design, and thought leadership to ensure Norstella's research products remain best-in-class.

Please note this is anticipated to be a 3-month contract.

Responsibilities

• Act as lead for how the market sentiment of life science competitive intelligence is incorporated into delivery & refinement of in-house AI models.
• Conduct scoring of agent and MCP outputs to ensure they are aligned to the needs of personas within the competitive intelligence sector.
• Act as a domain SME for human-in-the-loop eval rounds, ensuring that the LLM is able to directly service a specific market niche.
• Develop strategic recommendations and business cases for LLM-based initiatives that automate or augment the creation, enrichment, and quality assurance of life science data.
• Work cross functionally with Data Science, Content, and Product teams to translate business cases into deliverable projects with measurable impact.
• Enable commercialization and sales enablement, working with cross-functional teams as needed.
• Provide inputs into how the data assembly and tool calls made by agents need to be refined to map to desired deliverables.
• Establish best practices for responsible AI deployment within content workflows, including evaluation frameworks, human-in-the-loop validation, and bias/quality monitoring
• Articulate and position how Norstella data and AI capabilities resolve up to client value; support engagements with technical depth and strategic perspective

Qualifications

• Graduate/Doctorate degree in Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, Computer Science, Data Science or equivalent field/experience
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in competitive intelligence within the life science sector, either within a consulting, SaaS or in-house pharma role.
• Demonstrated success in training AI models, with experience in AI-enabled applications required
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, high-impact projects with minimal oversight
• Experience working with structured publishing platforms and data tools; comfort with automation concepts