Deallus Life Science Consultant

The role

We are now looking for a consultant to join our growing team. Specifically, we are looking for someone with prior management consulting experience, particularly in our heritage discipline, competitive intelligence.

What you'll be doing

• Develops key project deliverables, such as discreet pieces of (qualitative, quantitative, financial, pharmaco-economic) research, analysis and synthesis
• Using a range of strategic frameworks, conceptualizes complex data into compelling, succinct and actionable insights
• Creates, adheres to, manages, project plan and budget, incl. key milestones, delivery timelines, review sessions, with an eye for available capacity and for potential issues and risks
• Scopes out team role(s) and successfully delivers on own such role (including for example, project manager, financial/ quant analyst, communications champion)
• Manages small team in executing client project(s), addresses performance concerns effectively and early on
• Ensures high quality of deliverables, e.g., through four-eye principle, check list or formal quality control process
• Conducts project reviews and provides / seeks formal feedback at the close of every project (or at contract renewal for monitoring projects) to ensure key learnings from the project are captured
• Interacts with defined client teams in communicating progress, questions / hypotheses / conclusions, in addressing any questions and concerns, and in flagging issues as needed
• Ensures client satisfaction throughout the term of the project
• Takes on practice leadership role, e.g., related to recruiting, knowledge management, pursuit leadership

What we're looking for

• Familiarity, and in-market experience, with the US pharmaceutical market, through recent employment with US-based consulting firm
• Advanced degree in medicine/ life sciences from leading global faculty (Ph.D. preferred)
• Consultant level: 3+ years of relevant professional experience
• Track record of professional success, with successive stages of advancement/ promotion
• Proven Leadership skills (functional, team, client, team, etc.)
• Experience in pharma competitive intelligence
• Strong knowledge and hands-on competitive intelligence experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including issue monitoring and coverage of industry conferences, primary C.I., CI deep dives, workshops, scenario planning, and synthesis/ insight generation
• Experience working on Commercial Strategy or Market Access projects
• Preferably depth in one or more of the following therapeutic areas: Oncology, Neurology, Vaccines , Immunology, Cell & Gene, Rare Disease
• Fluency in languages other than English. Specific languages of interest are French, German, Spanish, as well as Japanese or Mandarin
• Publishations, conference presentations
• Ability and willingness to travel
• Experience successfully managing projects or streams of work within projects

Key Behavioural Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills, able to build relationships both internally and externally at all levels
• Proven analytical skills
• Ability to manage difficult conversations with ease
• Excellent communication skills, to include writing and presentation skills
• Possesses a strong understanding of the life sciences / pharma industry, to include recent trends, developments and current challenges
• Delegation and people management skills