Consultant, Pharma & Life Sciences

About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise and advanced technology, the firm helps clients deliver with greater confidence and certainty. Over 2,000 professionals across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia combine 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 powered by 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.

Pharma & Life Sciences Practice

Our Pharma & Life Sciences practice is looking for an experienced consultant to join the team.

What you will be doing

We provide advisory services to clients across the pharma value chain from R&D to commercialization, using our industry expertise and consulting skills. We work with a variety of clients, from large established players to rapidly growing industry disruptors. Example types of work include:

• 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 changes such as new strategic directions, evolving customer needs or evidence requirements
• 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
• Implementing next‑gen customer engagement ecosystems
• 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 with pharma and life science clients. A track record of taking ownership and delivering results in demanding client‑facing environments. 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. ClinOps, Stats, Regulatory, Safety, Quality, Medical Affairs, Sales, Marketing, Field)
• Transformation programme management
• Change management
• Technology‑enabled process design
• Digital, data, analytics and artificial intelligence
• Strategy and operating model development

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting people first. Baringa is a People First Company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work‑life balance and flexible working and provide our staff with amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• 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 continuous service
• Flexible working: a hybrid working policy with added flexibility around unpaid leave
• Corporate responsibility days: 3 days each year to support social and environmental causes
• Wellbeing fund: an annual people fund to support individual wellbeing initiatives
• Profit share scheme: all employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme

Diversity and Inclusion

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 our people.

An award‑winning workplace

Baringa is a Great Place to Work and committed to women’s and wellbeing in the workplace for all.

Using business as a force for good

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency through a commitment to Net Zero with SBTI‑verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and support the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and are evaluated by organisations such as CDP and EcoVadis. We support the communities in which we work with a variety of ways to contribute, putting people first and creating lasting impact.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We actively encourage applications from under‑represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process and provide reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.