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Management consultant · Life sciences

Mohammed Kasim

Clinical operations, data governance, and transformation delivery for life-sciences organizations.

I lead cross-functional teams across pharma R&D and commercial functions, from regulated clinical systems to master data and GenAI-enabled transformation roadmaps.

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Based in Gurgaon, India. Available for roles, advisory work, and project delivery worldwide.

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Capabilities

Clinical operations and regulated systems

Turning clinical-operations needs into configuration-ready requirements, with traceability and inspection readiness built in.

Clinical operations · Business analysis · Requirements analysis

Drawn from: R&D clinical-systems delivery at Accenture

Master data and data governance

Building the processes and migrations that keep pharmaceutical master data consistent across countries and systems.

Master data management and governance · Data and digital transformation · Data analysis

Drawn from: Commercial master-data work at ZS

Program delivery and governance

Running multi-team delivery with clear decisions, visible risks, and steady communication with senior stakeholders.

Program and project management · Agile delivery · Executive stakeholder management · Product management

Drawn from: Accenture, ZS, and Cognizant

Transformation roadmaps

Diagnosing operating problems and sequencing practical improvements, from business case through phased rollout.

Life-sciences transformation · Process improvement

Drawn from: R&D labeling roadmap at Accenture; MDM automation at ZS

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Experience

Sep 2024 - Present

Gurgaon, India

Management Consultant

Accenture Strategy & Consulting

  • Led a 20-person team across functional, technical, and validation workstreams on an enterprise clinical-operations transformation, with a focus on inspection readiness and stable releases.
  • Ran executive program governance: decision-focused reporting and active management of risks, dependencies, vendors, cost controls, and service levels.
  • Led diagnostic workshops with 10 senior R&D stakeholders on labeling-lifecycle pain points, then shaped a phased GenAI-enabled roadmap (proof of concept, MVP, rollout) and its business case.
  • Led functional delivery on regulated clinical-trial systems: ran design workshops, analyzed change impact, wrote configuration-ready user stories, and worked with validation and testing teams on traceability and GxP compliance.

Oct 2021 - Jun 2024

Gurgaon, India

Associate Consultant

ZS

  • Led a 27-person team across seven commercial-analytics workstreams and set up an end-to-end master-data change-governance process that cut release and change cycle time by 40%.
  • Led a 12-person team to cleanse, segment, and migrate pharmaceutical data from six sources across 83 countries into MDM and downstream systems.
  • Led eight associates delivering analysis and recommendations to 80 regional affiliates of a global pharma client, and presented 50+ business cases to senior stakeholders.
  • Automated process improvements that cut the time to onboard new data into MDM by 50%.

Apr 2019 - Sep 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Consultant

Cognizant Business Consulting

  • Led engineering pods of 5 to 12 people (UI, backend, QA) for a technology client on a Customer Replacement Unit product, CRM platform mapping, and a machine-learning proof of concept for customer-query automation.
  • Worked as business analyst and Scrum Master on data-dashboard, revenue-forecasting, and film-distribution analytics for finance and media clients.
  • Identified automation opportunities on a maps sustainability platform that increased user-content automation by 6% and cut knowledge-transfer time by 9%.
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Background

I started in technology consulting at Cognizant, moved into pharmaceutical data and master-data governance at ZS, and now work on clinical-operations and R&D transformation at Accenture.

2017 - 2019

Master of Business Administration

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

2014 - 2017

Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Political Science and International Relations

University of Delhi

Contact

Get in touch

I welcome conversations about:

  • Roles in life-sciences consulting and transformation
  • Clinical-operations and data-governance programs
  • Advisory and project work with teams anywhere in the world
Message me on LinkedInmd.kasim4816@gmail.com
Gurgaon, India