Life Sciences Consultant - Oncology

The Role

We are now looking for an Oncology-specialist (ideally with lung cancer expertise) Consultant to join our growing team. Specifically, we are looking for someone with prior management consulting experience, particularly in our heritage discipline, competitive intelligence.

A Consultant manages the delivery of client project(s), ensuring delivery of the projects are in line with client objectives and expectations as well as the project timelines. Working closely with the Key Account Lead, the Consultant / Sr. Consultant serves as the key point of contact for the project, manages the client relationship throughout the term of the project and manages the project team.

Consultants will also collaborate with other teams to support the delivery of projects by conducting research, analysing findings to generate insights and pulling together client deliverables.

What You'll Be Doing

• Developing key project deliverables, including discrete pieces of qualitative, quantitative, financial, and pharmaco-economic research, analysis, and synthesis.
• Using a range of strategic frameworks to conceptualize complex data and translate it into compelling, succinct, and actionable insights.
• Creating, managing, and adhering to project plans and budgets, including key milestones, delivery timelines, and review sessions, while monitoring capacity, risks, and potential issues.
• Defining team roles and successfully delivering against assigned responsibilities (for example, Project Manager, Financial/Quantitative Analyst, or Communications Champion).
• Managing small project teams in the execution of client engagements, addressing performance concerns proactively and effectively.
• Ensuring the highest quality of deliverables through quality assurance processes such as the four-eye principle, checklists, and formal quality control reviews.
• Conducting project reviews and providing and seeking formal feedback at the conclusion of each project (or at contract renewal for monitoring projects) to capture key learnings and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Interacting with client teams to communicate project progress, discuss questions, hypotheses, and conclusions, address concerns, and proactively flag issues as needed.
• Ensuring a high level of client satisfaction throughout the duration of each project.

What We're Looking For

• Familiarity with, and in-market experience in, the U.S. pharmaceutical market through recent employment with a U.S.-based consulting firm.
• Advanced degree in Medicine or Life Sciences from a leading institution (Ph.D. preferred), with deep oncology expertise, particularly in lung cancer.
• Consultant level: 3+ years of relevant consulting experience.
• Demonstrated track record of professional success, including progressive advancement and promotion.
• Experience successfully managing projects or workstreams within larger projects.
• Proven leadership skills, including functional, team, and client leadership.
• Experience in pharmaceutical competitive intelligence.
• Strong knowledge of, and hands-on experience in, pharmaceutical competitive intelligence, including issue monitoring, conference coverage, primary competitive intelligence research, competitive intelligence deep dives, workshops, scenario planning, and insight generation.
• Experience working on Commercial Strategy and/or Market Access projects.
• Strong understanding of the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries, including recent trends, developments, and current challenges.
• Ability to manage difficult conversations effectively and professionally.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships internally and externally at all levels.
• Publishations and/or conference presentations are desirable.
• Ability and willingness to travel.

Benefits

In addition to a rewarding career, we support our GlobalData Healthcare colleagues with a range of benefits across health, finances, fitness, travel, tech and more. To find out more about the roles and benefits on offer in your region, visit careers.globaldata.com

About Deallus

Deallus is a global life-sciences management consultancy specializing in life sciences and with a legacy in competitive intelligence, now a part of GlobalData Healthcare. We specialise in strategy and competitive analysis. Our strength is unrivalled therapeutic area expertise, deep understanding of our client needs, and proven methodologies to deliver strategic value across the product lifecycle and the broader organization.

We serve a large number of top-25 global pharma as well as biopharma clients, and have therapeutic area strength in Oncology, Rare Disease, Vaccines, and other specialty categories. We are looking for talented individuals with a strong background in life sciences to help support the growth and expansion of our London team.