Position Details: Engagement Manager, Life Sciences Consulting

Experienced Consultant driving Advisory services Sales and Delivery, for Life Sciences companies. Provides specific domain expertise to guide clients in enterprise transformations, by defining a vision, and a roadmap for achieving the end state.

Responsibilities:  

• Drives Advisory opportunity discovery and diagnostics. Helps shape an end state vision for clients’ businesses – in one or more of: (i) Clinical, (ii) Regulatory (iii) Laboratory, (iv) Research areas

• Guides clients in adoption of leading edge business processes and best practices; gets the best thinking from his/her staff and client team members, in their implementation

• Confidently and effectively manages client stakeholders and Our Client resources to deliver results

• Participates in supporting executive level client Steering Committee meetings; can manage conflict resolution among various stake holders/staff to successfully drive change management initiatives.

• Where needed, in an owner or supporter role, drafts proposals, plans phased project execution, develops detailed project plans and manages program budgets and costs; fosters shared accountability for results-based implementation plan

• Facilitates the development of Life Sciences asset advancements by submissions to Our Client intellectual capital repository.

• Mentors junior Associates and Analysts, as required, to ensure their rapid and successful professional development

Qualifications: 

• More than ten years of experience in the Life Sciences (LS) industry (incl. Pharma, Biotech, Medical Devices or Chemistry)

• Strong experience in one or more of: (i) Clinical, (ii) Regulatory (iii) Laboratory, (iv) Research areas 

• For the domain area of expertise above, has a thorough understanding of Business Processes, KPIs, Challenges, and Industry Trends and Regulations

• Nice to have: Experience in 2-3 additional LS specific domain areas from the following: SC / Manufacturing, R&D, Clinical Supplies, Validation, ERP, LIMS, Program / Project Management, IoT, Digital Experience, IT architecture

• Has experience with IT enablement and business transformations, and a holistic knowledge of Business and IT Landscape for the domain area of experience above.

• Has familiarity with conducting Business Process Reviews, Business Process Improvements, IT Landscape Assessment, IT simplification, driving the adoption of new technology

• More than five years of experience in business development, client relationship management and program / project management

• Familiar with usual office software plus selected or dedicated (as per focus area above) relevant domain specific packages

• Strong team building skills, strategy and operations thinking, solution & result orientation, intercultural competence

• Direct working experience in the LS related industry for minimum 4 years or PhD / Domain specific engineering degree with practical experience.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent presentation skills – development and delivery

• Good public speaking/publishing record