Consultant, Pharma & Life Sciences in London

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Our Pharma & Life Sciences practice are looking for an experienced Consultant to join the team. Following exceptional year on year growth at Baringa, we are excited to continue building our Pharma and Life Sciences practice across Europe and the UK. The Pharma and Life Sciences sector is undergoing rapid and transformational change. There has never been a more exciting time to work in this sector with endless opportunities to add value to the industry. Our clients are pivoting how they work as new technologies revolutionise every part of their value chain and the value they create for patients. This continues against a backdrop of rapidly rising development costs and external market access pressures. If you are excited about working alongside our clients to solve these problems, then we could be what you are looking for.

What you will be doing:

• Developing strategies and operating models to transform ways of working across clinical development, medical affairs and commercial (at global and local levels)
• Implementing change in global, cross-functional organisations in a strategic and sustainable way
• Developing and operating Centres of Excellence and Communities of Practice to cross-fertilise learnings and successes across countries and regions
• Designing and implementing Quality Management Systems and the associated GCP/GVP processes
• Optimising product development team ways of working in response to change, i.e. a new strategic direction, changing customer needs, evolving evidence requirements, etc.
• Developing omnichannel approaches and building the required capabilities for clients to achieve early post-launch impact in their customer engagements
• Supporting brand teams with launch strategies and operations
• Advising on data and AI enablement to realise strategy and drive efficiency, translating business and process needs into actionable digital strategy and end-to-end implementation
• Advising on Patient Engagement strategies and operating models, considering how to measure impact and leverage patient experience data for insight
• Creating best practice for strategic alliances to be successful whether that be for co-development or post-merger integration

Your skills and experience:

• Pharmaceutical and life sciences experience through working within the industry or working with pharma and life science clients
• A track record of taking ownership and delivering results in demanding client-facing environments
• An entrepreneurial spirit to help us grow the sector
• An ability to leverage AI to inform strategy, enable operating models and transform ways of working

In addition to experience working with pharmaceutical and life science clients, you will have demonstrable consulting skills in one or more of the following:

• Life Sciences Clinical Development, Medical and/or Commercial functions (e.g. Clinical Ops, Stats, Regulatory, Safety, Quality, Medical Affairs, Sales, Marketing, Field)
• Change Management
• Technology-enabled process design
• Digital, data, analytics and artificial intelligence
• Strategy and Operating Model development

Benefits:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: 5 weeks of annual leave fully available at the start of each year, plus an additional 2 weeks after 5 years of continuous service
• Flexible Working: hybrid working policy with additional flexibility around unpaid leave
• Corporate Responsibility Days: 3 days per year to support social and environmental causes
• Wellbeing Fund: annual fund to support personal wellbeing activities
• Profit Share Scheme: participation in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. Using business as a force for good. We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis – helping us to continually identify where we can improve.