This is a pivotal role in delivering projects and developing strategies that provide top quality support to leading pharmaceutical executives, therefore the role has a high level of responsibility and you would need to be highly committed to delivering the best possible outcomes for both projects and clients.

A “can do” attitude, taking pride in your work, a passion for results and a genuine desire to succeed are all vital traits for this role.

 

Key Accountabilities:

1. Understanding and delivering the clients strategic needs, beyond immediate projects
2. Managing day to day interactions with client teams, taking a lead role in project discussions and presentations to clients
3. Building strong client relationships while ensuring projects profitability
4. Contributing to account planning processes and client proposals preparation
5. Assigning and managing team work, providing support and oversight with project deliverables i.e. identifying issues, forming hypothesis, designing & conducting analyses, synthesising conclusions into recommendations and helping with final reports
6. Ensuring projects are delivered on time and in accordance with the project plans, quality control practices and agreed deliverables
7. Management of specific Junior Business Analysts, ensuring they have clear objectives, development plans, mentoring & support to grow and develop
8. Anticipated travel at 30% of job requirement. 

Key Skills/Personal Qualities: 

Technical Skills:

1. Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
2. Practical knowledge of at least one of our practice areas e.g. market research, competitive intelligence or market access, pricing and reimbursement
3. Previously held a project management role
4. Masters or higher degree (PhD, MBA) in a life science subject from a leading university and/or relevant experience in biopharma, healthcare or consulting.
5. Advanced skills in PowerPoint, Excel and Word
6. Foreign language skills are preferred

Behavioural Skills:

1. Strategic mindset and problem solving skills
2. Customer focused and able to build strong and lasting client relationships
3. Strong communication skills – good listener and observer with the ability to communicate effectively and succinctly, verbally and in writing to any audience
4. Leader able to work independently and guide teams to success
5. Curious and critical thinker – passionate about learning new things and striving to do things better
6. Ability to multi-task and deliver high quality outputs under time-pressured deadlines through project teams
7. Team builder able to build credible and strong professional relationships across culturally diverse teams
8. Excellent attention to detail
9. Drive and ambition to progress and grow personal capability