Business Consulting - Life Sciences - Senior - 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
- Support client engagement teams and work with a wide variety of clients to deliver professional services in the life sciences domain.
- Lead key workstreams as part of large-scale client engagements and consistently deliver high quality deliverables.
- Help Manager and Senior Managers manage risk and help ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
- Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.
- Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment by playing an active role in counselling and mentoring staff consultants within the organization.
- Develop relationships with team members across all EY practices to serve client needs.
- Remain 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
- 3+ 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
- A willingness to travel to meet client needs
- Advisory/consulting experience within life sciences is preferred
Qualifications
- Deep knowledge in targeted disease areas including oncology, immunology, neurology and cell and gene therapies
- Strong commercial strategy skills with exposure to commercial analytics and market access
- Prior experience working in a strategy or boutique consulting company and managing a team of at least 3 reports
- Experience in running primary research interviews and quantitative surveys in the life science field
- Experience with market access and knowledge of US market access dynamics including IRA, Medicare, Medicaid
Skills
- Effectively support client engagement teams
- Leading key workstreams as part of large-scale client engagements and consistently delivering high quality deliverables
- Helping Manager and Senior Managers manage risk and helping ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes
- Staying abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business
- Helping foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment by playing an active role in counselling and mentoring staff consultants within the organization
- Starting to develop 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