Nidhi Saran
Background and experience
Nidhi leads ZS’s strategy practice, guiding life sciences clients on marketing, portfolio and launch strategy to drive growth and alignment across therapeutic areas and global markets. She works with clients on defining and making strategic choices, with a focus on marketing strategy, portfolio and therapeutic area strategy and new product launches.
Nidhi has expertise in marketing, launch excellence, portfolio analysis, therapeutic area strategy and growth strategy. She drives alignment and implementation of marketing and market access strategies for early assets as well as launch and in-line products. She has worked across several therapeutic areas, including cardio-renal, immunology, neuroscience, respiratory and oncology, as well as biosimilars. Her experience spans multiple geographies.
Nidhi held strategic and operational roles in marketing and sales at Novartis, leading both U.S. and global launches of branded specialty products as well as biosimilars and complex generics across several therapeutic areas. She also worked in management consulting as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company in the pharmaceutical sector.
Education
B.A., biochemistry, Middlebury CollegePh.D. in biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine