Principal, Life Sciences Strategy Consulting

About Us

At BGBx, we're driven by a simple idea: breakthrough thinking creates breakthrough impact. As an independent commercial solutions partner to pharmaceutical and life science companies, we bring together strategists, scientists, communicators, creatives, technologists, and data experts to tackle some of healthcare's most important challenges. Our teams work across consulting and communications to help clients shape strategy, launch innovations, engage stakeholders, and drive meaningful results throughout the product lifecycle. The work is complex, fast-moving, and deeply connected to improving lives, creating opportunities for curious minds to make a real difference every day. If you're energized by collaboration, inspired by innovation, and motivated by work that matters, you'll find a place to grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact at BGBx.

Position Overview

The Principal role at BGBx involves leading engagements that help the world’s top biopharma companies make critical commercial decisions. You’ll guide teams, shape strategy, and deliver work that drives real impact-from market opportunity assessments to competitive positioning and product commercialization. You’ll be a trusted partner to clients and a key contributor to our practice’s growth-scoping new opportunities, building relationships, and helping shape the future of our consulting offering.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for balancing project management, project delivery, and business development responsibilities
• Serve as a strategy and thought partner to clients and senior officers of the firm
• Utilize IxI technology products and client provided information to develop conclusions and recommendations (written and verbal)
• Work with senior members of the team to scope and develop proposals for new projects
• Engage in practice planning discussions, including practice strategy and marketing
• Analyze research and data to uncover insights and build smart, usable recommendations
• Craft compelling, client-ready presentations that tell clear, powerful stories
• Collaborate across disciplines - working with creatives, behavioral scientists, and technologists
• Contribute to business development by building proposals and nurturing client relationships
• Help shape our practice by engaging in strategic planning and marketing initiatives

Qualifications

• 7-8 years of life sciences consulting experience, ideally at a top consulting firm or life sciences data organization
• BA/BS required; MBA or Master’s in a related field preferred
• Strong data analyst and synthesis skills-you connect dots others miss
• Proven leadership across multiple workstreams and teams
• Excellent communication and people management skills
• Foreign language skills a plus, but not required
• A self-starting, collaborative mindset-you lead with curiosity and clarity

Why Join Us?

• Small team energy, big company support-backed by BGB and Kx
• High-impact work, early responsibility-you’ll contribute from day one
• A learning-first culture-mentorship, peer support, and space to grow
• Genuinely fun, curious environment-we take the work seriously, not ourselves
• Strategy meets creativity-where insight, brand, and behavior collide
• A future-facing mission-everything we do aims to improve lives

Pay

Salary range: $180,000 - $195,000 base plus bonus eligible

Benefits

BGBx provides a competitive rewards package designed to support your health, well-being, professional growth, and life outside of work. Our benefits package typically includes health care insurance, retirement plans, generous paid time off and holidays, wellness benefits, life insurance, learning and development opportunities, and other resources that support our employees throughout their careers. Additional benefits may be available based on your location. Beyond benefits, you'll find a culture built on collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on healthcare and the people it serves. BGBx is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or any category or class of person protected by law.