Consultant, UK

Posted:
7/1/2024, 3:17:44 AM

Location(s):
London, England, United Kingdom ⋅ England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level

Field(s):
Consulting

We are currently looking for a motivated consultant, specialising in oncology, to join our growing team. Our consultants play a pivotal role in delivering projects and developing strategies that provide top quality support to leading pharmaceutical executives. This role requires a high level of responsibility and commitment to deliver the best possible outcomes for both projects and clients.

Overall business objectives:
Our main goal is to become the partner of choice for Market Research, Competitive Intelligence, Market Access Pricing & Reimbursement consulting services to our clients, to achieve over 98% client satisfaction and over 95% client retention rates.

Overall scope of role:
Key role within company’s management structure and integral to client engagement team, running project teams committed to developing and delivering executable project outcomes to meet specific objectives of our global clients.  Working proactively and collaboratively with numerous stakeholders, to ensure smooth running and delivery of multiple projects.

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

Key Skills/Personal Qualities: 
Technical Skills:

  1. PhD/PharmD/MBA + BSc/MSc in life sciences with 2 years’ relevant experience in life science consulting. 
  2. Project management experience required. 
  3. Strong expertise/background in oncology.  
  4. Practical knowledge of at least one of our practice areas e.g. market research, competitive intelligence or market access, pricing and reimbursement
  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