Business Consulting - Life Sciences - Manager - Consulting - Location OPEN
About the role
EY has a robust life sciences commercial practice, helping clients with strategic growth, business transformation, and commercial excellence. This senior role within our Consulting practice will have the opportunity to lead large engagements, build solutions, lead teams, and innovate in the market. Our practice works with large pharma, biotechnology, medical device manufacturers, and medical technology industries. You will be an integral member of our life sciences consulting team and spend most of your time focused on providing client services in the following areas: business transformation, commercial operations, commercial data and analytics, commercial strategy, market access, growth strategy, operating model optimization, technology implementation and enterprise transformation.
Responsibilities
- Supporting client engagement teams and working with a wide variety of clients to deliver professional services in the life sciences domain.
- Leading large-scale client engagements and consistently delivering quality client services.
- Maintaining client service delivery expectations and staying updated on current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.
- Fostering an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment by playing an active role in counseling and mentoring junior consultants within the organization.
- Developing and maintaining long-term client relationships and networks.
- Developing relationships with team members across all EY practices to serve client needs.
- Remaining current on new developments in the life sciences advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business, Biology, Pharmacology
- 6+ years biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry experience and experience providing advisory services in these industries, focused in at least one of the following areas:
- Commercial analytics
- Brand strategy
- Pricing and market access
- Commercial operations model transformation
- Digital campaign management strategy
- Familiarity with pharmaceutical datasets (e.g. pricing databases, prescription and claims databases, etc.)
- Experience with commercial operations and analytics
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
- The executive presence to interact with the C-Suite
- A willingness to travel to meet client needs
Qualifications
- Strong prior experience in Life Science commercial strategy with a focus on operational models. Additional experience in market access and commercial analytics will be a plus
- Prior experience working in Strategy focused boutique life sciences or internal strategy roles with top biopharma clients (e.g., Merck, Pfizer, BMS)
- Experience managing a team of at least 5 reports in a dynamic fast-paced setting
- Effectively manage and motivate client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds
- Leading large-scale client engagements and consistently delivering quality client services
- Making decisions and solving problems independently
- Monitoring progress, managing risk and ensuring key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes
- Managing expectations of client service delivery and staying abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business
- Fostering an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment by playing an active role in counselling and mentoring junior consultants within the organization
- Developing and maintaining long-term client relationships and networks
- Developing relationships with team members across all EY practices to serve client needs
- Remaining current on new developments in the life sciences advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge
Benefits
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business, Biology, Pharmacology
- 6+ years biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry experience and experience providing advisory services in these industries, focused in at least one of the following areas:
- Commercial analytics
- Brand strategy
- Pricing and market access
- Commercial operations model transformation
- Digital campaign management strategy
- Familiarity with pharmaceutical datasets (e.g. pricing databases, prescription and claims databases, etc.)
- Experience with commercial operations and analytics
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
- The executive presence to interact with the C-Suite
- A willingness to travel to meet client needs
- Significant advisory/consulting experience is within life sciences is required
Pay
The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $114,800 to $210,600. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $137,900 to $239,300. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.
Schedule
Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.