AstraZeneca has announced two exciting analytics job opportunities in Bangalore, India, for professionals interested in pharmaceutical analytics, social media intelligence, commercial analytics, and data-driven decision-making.

The company is hiring for:

1. Associate / Analyst – Social Listening
2. Analyst – Brand Analytics

These AstraZeneca jobs in Bangalore offer opportunities to work with data, analytics, commercial teams, marketing, communications, and healthcare insights. Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply before the respective closing dates.

AstraZeneca Hiring 2026 – Job Overview

1. Associate / Analyst – Social Listening

Job Location: Bangalore, India

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Requisition ID: R-259842

GCL: C2 / C3

AstraZeneca is seeking an Associate / Analyst – Social Listening to transform real-time social media conversations and unstructured data into actionable business insights.

This social listening job in pharma involves analyzing online conversations, identifying trends, building search queries, monitoring sentiment, and creating reports that support marketing, communications, media, and reputation strategies.

Key Responsibilities

As an Associate / Analyst – Social Listening, you will:

• Translate business questions into social listening objectives and insight frameworks.
• Build, test, and optimize keywords, operators, queries, and filters.
• Analyze social media conversations and unstructured data.
• Monitor conversation volume, sentiment, influencers, and emerging trends.
• Identify meaningful signals while separating noise from relevant insights.
• Provide recommendations for content, media, and event strategies.
• Create analytical reports using Excel, PowerPoint, newsletters, charts, and infographics.
• Configure and maintain social listening dashboards.
• Ensure compliance with global SOPs and organizational policies.
• Continuously improve queries, definitions, processes, and reporting quality.
• Collaborate with marketing, communications, and analytics stakeholders.

Qualifications and Skills

Candidates should have:

• 2–6 years of relevant experience.
• A Bachelor’s degree in any discipline, Pharmacy, or related field.
• M.Pharm (Pharmacology preferred) or MBA candidates may also be eligible.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and storytelling abilities.
• Experience synthesizing complex information into actionable insights.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Familiarity with:
  • Facebook
  • Twitter/X
  • Instagram
  • Blogs
  • Forums
  • Tumblr
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications

Candidates with the following experience may have an advantage:

• Pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Social listening and digital analytics experience.
• Experience with enterprise social listening tools.
• Dashboard configuration experience.
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Collaboration with marketing, communications, and analytics teams.

Why Join AstraZeneca?

This role provides an opportunity to transform social media data into meaningful healthcare and pharmaceutical insights. Employees can work with global teams, advanced analytical tools, and data-driven processes that support faster decision-making.

2. Analyst – Brand Analytics

Job Location: Bangalore, India

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Requisition ID: R-259728

GCL: C3

AstraZeneca is also hiring an Analyst – Brand Analytics professional to support strategic and operational decision-making within its Commercial Organization.

This pharmaceutical analytics job focuses on predictive analytics, prescriptive analytics, statistical modelling, large healthcare datasets, customer segmentation, and commercial analytics.

The role involves collaborating with Marketing, Medical, Market Access, Sales, Forecasting, and Commercial Operations teams.

Key Responsibilities

The selected candidate will:

• Support strategic and operational analytics for brand teams.
• Develop data-driven solutions for commercial business challenges.
• Analyze large and complex healthcare datasets.
• Support customer segmentation and business analytics initiatives.
• Apply quantitative and statistical methods to business problems.
• Develop and deploy analytical capabilities across the organization.
• Evaluate new analytical methodologies and technologies.
• Collaborate with internal business stakeholders.
• Work with Sales Force Operations and Commercial Operations teams.
• Present findings and actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

Qualifications and Skills

Candidates should possess a quantitative educational background in areas such as:

• Engineering
• Operations Research
• Management Science
• Economics
• Statistics
• Applied Mathematics
• Computer Science
• Data Science

Advanced qualifications such as a Master’s degree, MBA, or PhD are preferred.

Technical Requirements

Candidates should have experience with:

• Python
• PySpark
• R
• SQL
• Databricks
• Statistical analysis and modelling
• Large and disparate datasets
• Secondary healthcare data analysis

Knowledge of data visualization tools is beneficial, including:

• Power BI
• Tableau
• MicroStrategy
• QlikView
• D3.js

Healthcare Analytics Experience

Experience working with healthcare datasets is highly valuable, including:

• Claims data
• EMR data
• Patient-level datasets
• Longitudinal healthcare datasets
• IQVIA datasets

Statistical and Advanced Analytics Skills

Preferred expertise includes:

• Regression analysis
• Time series analysis
• Experimental design
• Applied econometrics
• Bayesian methods
• Data mining
• Predictive modelling
• Machine Learning
• Optimization
• Simulation

Preferred Qualifications

The ideal candidate may also have:

• Pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare analytics experience.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Leadership and interpersonal abilities.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Exposure to Big Data and Apache Spark.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical brands and oncology.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and concepts.

Why Join AstraZeneca?

AstraZeneca provides opportunities to work at the intersection of healthcare, data science, pharmaceutical analytics, and digital innovation.

The Brand Analytics team works with diverse datasets and analytical technologies to generate insights that can support commercial strategy and ultimately help improve patient outcomes.

Why These AstraZeneca Jobs Are Important

These AstraZeneca jobs in Bangalore represent two different career paths within pharmaceutical analytics.

The Social Listening role is suitable for professionals interested in:

• Digital analytics
• Social media intelligence
• Consumer insights
• Marketing analytics
• Communications
• Data storytelling

The Brand Analytics role is more technically focused and is suitable for professionals with experience in:

• Data science
• Python
• SQL
• PySpark
• Healthcare analytics
• Statistical modelling
• Machine learning
• Commercial analytics

HOW TO APPLY

Application Link For Associate / Analyst – Social Listening

Application Link For Analyst – Brand Analytics