Consultant, CA

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:

Understanding and delivering the clients strategic needs, beyond immediate projects

Managing day to day interactions with client teams, taking a lead role in project discussions and presentations to clients

Building strong client relationships while ensuring projects profitability

Contributing to account planning processes and client proposals preparation

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

Ensuring projects are delivered on time and in accordance with the project plans, quality control practices and agreed deliverables

Management of specific Junior Business Analysts, ensuring they have clear objectives, development plans, mentoring & support to grow and develop

Anticipated travel at 30% of job requirement.

Key Skills/Personal Qualities:

Technical Skills:

Minimum 2 years of relevant experience

Practical knowledge of at least one of our practice areas e.g. market research, competitive intelligence or market access, pricing and reimbursement

Previously held a project management role

Masters or higher degree (PhD, MBA) in a life science subject from a leading university and/or relevant experience in biopharma, healthcare or consulting.

Advanced skills in PowerPoint, Excel and Word

Foreign language skills are preferred

Behavioural Skills:

Strategic mindset and problem solving skills

Customer focused and able to build strong and lasting client relationships

Strong communication skills - good listener and observer with the ability to communicate effectively and succinctly, verbally and in writing to any audience

Leader able to work independently and guide teams to success

Curious and critical thinker - passionate about learning new things and striving to do things better

Ability to multi-task and deliver high quality outputs under time-pressured deadlines through project teams

Team builder able to build credible and strong professional relationships across culturally diverse teams

Excellent attention to detail

Drive and ambition to progress and grow personal capability