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Are you an experienced life sciences consultant looking to make an impact and work with a curious and talented team to advance healthcare?

We’re a fast-growing, purpose-driven team that thrives on collaboration, excellence, and courage. As a Consultant, you’ll lead client projects, drive business development and guide teams, all while empowering clients to bring groundbreaking therapies to patients worldwide. If you’re ready to lead, grow and make a real difference, then please keep reading and apply today!

Solici is the strategic competitive intelligence division of Cambridge Healthcare Research. Founded in 2013 and having grown to over 130 staff today, CHR gives healthcare decision makers the power of knowing by providing critical insights, analysis and interpretation that informs pivotal decisions that advance healthcare.

Our vision at Solici is to help the brightest ideas reach patients. We achieve this by combining research excellence with deep subject matter expertise in a range of therapy areas and a passion for enabling our clients to deliver innovative products and services to those who need them.

Our values enable us to embed considered and curious teams at the heart of any client challenge:

• Collaboration – We build strong connections to achieve more together
• Excellence – We aim for greatness in everything we do
• Community – We deliver beyond work for our people, our clients, and wider society
• Courage – We embrace challenges as opportunities for growth
• Integrity – We always do the right thing

The Opportunity

As a Senior Consultant, you will contribute towards the success and growth of the business by proactively leading on business development efforts to win new work and the delivery of our larger, more complex and higher value projects. In addition, you will be leading and developing our consulting teams and partnering with our clients, to ensure we deliver high quality services that enable their strategic decision-making.

What you will be doing

• Project leadership – Leading on and successfully delivering our larger, more complex and higher-value projects, ensuring they are delivered to plan and provide value for clients.
• Engagement leadership – Reassuring and satisfying clients as a trusted partner across a portfolio of projects and range of proposition and therapeutic areas by ensuring these are designed to address strategic and complex business issues and deliver quality and profitable solutions with an exceptional client experience.
• Delivering excellence – Planning, designing and expertly facilitating complex workshops, providing clear strategic recommendations to clients.
• Leading others – Independently lead, manage and develop consulting colleagues through effective communication and feedback, supporting personalised development to foster innovation and diverse thinking that adds value for our clients whilst building capabilities and behaviours that enable our people to realise their potential.
• Business development – Developing a deep understanding of existing accounts to identify catalytic events at company and product level that could generate new opportunities and proactively pursuing leads to grow the account. Proactively win new business through maintaining relationships with existing and former clients and developing new client contacts, securing requests for proposals, and leading on proposals and pitches.
• External engagement – Promoting Solici to enhance our strategic decision making and competitive positioning through writing blog articles and attending key events (e.g. conferences), developing professional networks, interacting with a variety of external stakeholders (e.g. clients, experts etc.) and articulating how Solici services and propositions can meet their needs.
• Internal engagement – Contributing and supporting internal improvement initiatives to increase the efficiency and delivery rate and profitability of projects and shape Solici and CHR for the future.

Who will thrive in this role

You will have an advanced (Masters or PhD) degree with experience in one of the following; Oncology, Immunology, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic diseases (CVRM), Rare diseases.

You will be an experienced life sciences consultant with a proven record of successfully managing profitable projects that deliver value for clients, engaging with existing and prospective clients to understand their needs and win new business, leading and developing others to deliver high quality outputs, and utilising industry expertise and acquired knowledge to develop impactful and commercially relevant solutions for clients. You will have typically developed this over a career of at least five years within life sciences consulting but demonstrable capability and achievements are of greater importance to us than tenure.

You will balance your scientific background with strong commercial astuteness to achieve revenue and profitability targets, have high levels of emotional intelligence to develop effective relationships with clients and colleagues and a growth mindset to thrive in a complex and ever-changing environment.

You will be energised by driving innovation and improvement projects that align with CHR’s strategic and cultural goals, and skilled in leading your team through change programmes.

Who We Are

At CHR, we pride ourselves on a culture that nurtures the talented and the curious, helping the inquisitive and the ambitious to develop skills which enable them to grow as people, within a dynamic team environment.

CHR for Society:We believe that a great business is not just about revenues and profits. It’s also about using our expertise and resources to have a positive impact on society and the environment. At CHR we are fully committed to driving positive change in the world – we want our employees to not only build fantastic careers, but also to know they have the ability to positively impact society along the way.

Who We Are

At CHR, we pride ourselves on a culture that nurtures the talented and the curious, helping the inquisitive and the ambitious to develop skills which enable them to grow as people, within a dynamic team environment.

CHR for Society:We believe that a great business is not just about revenues and profits. It’s also about using our expertise and resources to have a positive impact on society and the environment. At CHR we are fully committed to driving positive change in the world – we want our employees to not only build fantastic careers, but also to know they have the ability to positively impact society along the way.

CHR\’s head office is in Shoreditch, London and provides the opportunity to work within our hybrid working model. Due to the customer-facing nature of this role, we anticipate 2-3 days per week on-site in our London office. We offer a collaborative and stimulating environment with an opportunity to make and influence decisions that will drive CHR forward, as well as a competitive salary and benefits package that includes:

• Base salary depending on prior experience
• Annual bonus
• 25 days holiday per year (with an additional day per year of service, up to 30 days) plus all bank/public holidays and Christmas/New Year closure
• Private Healthcare and Life Assurance
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Mind & Body allowance to support activities that proactively support your health & wellbeing (such as gym membership or wellbeing apps)
• A collaborative and stimulating leadership environment
• An opportunity to make and influence decisions that will drive CHR forward

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and make all employment decisions without regard to age, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Hiring Process

For more info on a career with us, please visit our website; or reach out to our Talent Acquisition Manager directly at;

If you think we are the right company for you then please apply today, we would love to hear from you!

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