Case studies

Proof in the work, not the pitch

A selection of engagements across the pharmaceutical commercial value chain, showing the shape of the work — the problem, our approach, and the outcome.

Commercial Strategy

Commercial Strategy Redesign for Specialty Brand

Context

A mid-size emerging pharma with an established oncology brand was experiencing declining rep productivity and flat market share despite significant promotional investment. Leadership suspected misaligned targeting but lacked a clear diagnostic.

Approach

We conducted a full SFE assessment — analysing call data, prescribing patterns, and territory alignment against market potential. We redesigned the segmentation model, realigned 180 territories, and rebuilt the call planning logic to concentrate effort on high-potential, under-called accounts.

Outcome

Repositioned field effort generated a measurable uplift in new-to-brand prescribing within two quarters, with no increase in headcount. IC plan redesign, completed in parallel, further reinforced the shift toward strategic account behaviours.

Launch Excellence

First Product Launch: Comprehensive Commercial Infrastructure Build

Context

A emerging pharma preparing its first commercial product launch needed to build commercial infrastructure from the ground up — including master data management, analytics setup, segmentation, targeting, and field readiness — within a constrained timeline.

Approach

We led the end-to-end commercial build: establishing the MDM framework and data architecture, designing the segmentation and targeting model, structuring the launch KPI framework, and supporting field training design. Work was sequenced against regulatory milestones to ensure readiness at each stage.

Outcome

The organisation launched on time with a functioning commercial infrastructure, a trained field force, and real-time performance visibility from day one — avoiding the common first-launch pattern of building analytics capability reactively after launch.

Patient & Market Analytics

Revamping Legacy Analytics for a Major Pharmaceutical Company

Context

A large pharma commercial team was operating on a fragmented legacy analytics infrastructure — disparate data sources, slow reporting cycles, and limited ability to integrate patient-level insights with field performance data. The commercial organisation was data-rich but insight-poor.

Approach

We led a full analytics modernisation programme — rearchitecting the data infrastructure, consolidating sources into a governed commercial data asset, rebuilding the reporting layer with role-specific dashboards, and introducing patient-level analytics capabilities including journey mapping and source-of-business analysis.

Outcome

The new infrastructure reduced reporting cycle time significantly, gave brand and field leadership real-time performance visibility, and unlocked patient-level analytics that directly informed targeting redesign and market access strategy.

Marketing & Omnichannel

Promotional Impact Assessment & Mix Optimisation

Context

A pharma brand team was investing heavily across personal and non-personal promotional channels but lacked visibility into which activities were actually driving prescription behaviour. Budget allocation decisions were being made on share-of-voice assumptions rather than measured response.

Approach

We designed and executed a promotional response model using sales data, call activity, digital engagement metrics, and market research. The model quantified the marginal contribution of each channel and identified several high-investment, low-response activities that were consuming budget without measurable impact.

Outcome

Reallocating promotional spend based on model outputs delivered improved brand sales performance with a lower total promotional budget — and gave the brand team a defensible, evidence-based framework for annual planning conversations with leadership.

Medical Affairs

Medical Affairs Impact Analytics: Evaluating Scientific Engagement

Context

A pharma company's Medical Affairs team was investing significantly in MSL engagement and KOL programmes but had limited ability to demonstrate the commercial and scientific value of that investment to leadership. Impact was anecdotal rather than evidenced.

Approach

We designed and implemented a Medical Affairs impact analytics framework — integrating MSL call data, publication activity, congress engagement, and brand performance metrics to build a measurement model that quantified the contribution of scientific engagement to prescribing behaviour and payer access outcomes.

Outcome

The framework gave the Medical Affairs leadership team a credible, data-grounded narrative for the function's commercial value — supporting budget retention and informing the redesign of MSL territory prioritisation and KOL engagement strategy.

Technology Strategy

CRM Implementation: Tailored Salesforce CRM for Medical Affairs

Context

A pharma company's Medical Affairs function was managing KOL relationships, MSL activity, and scientific engagement data across disconnected spreadsheets and email systems — limiting leadership visibility, creating compliance risk, and preventing meaningful analysis of engagement patterns.

Approach

We led the design and implementation of a Salesforce CRM configured for Medical Affairs workflows — covering MSL call logging, KOL profiling, congress management, and activity reporting. Configuration was built around Medical Affairs-specific compliance requirements and integrated with the commercial CRM to enable cross-functional visibility where appropriate.

Outcome

The Medical Affairs team moved from fragmented manual tracking to a governed, real-time CRM within four months — with immediate improvements in MSL activity visibility, KOL engagement tracking, and the data quality needed to support the Medical Affairs impact analytics work described separately.

Commercial Operations

Data Warehousing & Analytics Infrastructure for Commercial Scale

Context

A pharmaceutical company with a growing commercial portfolio was operating on a fragmented data infrastructure — separate data feeds, inconsistent master data, and reporting built on unvalidated extracts. The commercial organisation lacked confidence in its own data, slowing decision-making and creating audit risk.

Approach

We designed and led the implementation of a governed commercial data warehouse — consolidating claims, CRM, market access, and financial data into a single validated source of commercial truth. Work included master data management framework design, data quality governance, and role-specific reporting layers for brand, field, and leadership audiences.

Outcome

The commercial organisation moved from multiple competing data sources to a single governed infrastructure — with immediate improvements in data confidence, reporting consistency, and the ability to support advanced analytics use cases that the previous architecture could not accommodate.

AI Strategy

AI Use Case Prioritisation for a Specialty Pharma Commercial Team

Context

A specialty pharma company's commercial leadership team was under pressure from the board to develop an AI strategy. Multiple vendors were pitching platforms and point solutions, but the team lacked the internal clarity to evaluate competing claims or prioritise investment against commercial objectives.

Approach

We led a structured AI strategy engagement — beginning with a commercial AI readiness assessment across data infrastructure, capability, and governance. We then facilitated an AI use case prioritisation process with cross-functional commercial leadership, scoring 14 candidate use cases against commercial value, feasibility, and risk. The process produced a sequenced AI investment roadmap and a governance framework for the first phase of deployment.

Outcome

The commercial team entered vendor conversations with a clear use case brief, defined evaluation criteria, and a governance framework — significantly improving the quality of vendor assessments and the confidence of investment decisions. The prioritised roadmap aligned commercial, IT, and finance leadership around a shared AI investment thesis for the first time.

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