Consultant - Oncology UK

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.

As a Consultant, you will support the growth and success of the business by leading the delivery of projects, leading and developing our consulting teams, proactively driving business development, 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: Lead and successfully deliver client projects, ensuring they are delivered to plan and provide value for clients.
• Delivering excellence: Think strategically and critically to solve complex problems across a range of proposition and therapeutic areas, delivering a range of project types with varying levels of complexity, and planning, designing, and facilitating workshops.
• Business development: Facilitate the growth of existing accounts by maintaining engagement with existing client leads and identifying opportunities to expand project scope. Support the acquisition of new clients through actively pursuing client leads and significantly contributing to proposals and pitches.
• Leading others: 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 while building capabilities and behaviours that enable our people to realise their potential.
• External engagement: Promote Solici to enhance our strategic decision making and competitive positioning through writing blog articles, attending key events (e.g. conferences, networking events), interacting with external stakeholders, gaining insights, staying abreast of industry developments, and developing professional networks.
• Internal engagement: Contribute to and support internal improvement initiatives to increase the efficiency, delivery rate, and profitability of projects. Shape Solici and CHR culture for the future through active participation in wider projects and initiatives.

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, having developed the following capabilities over your career:

• A proven record or demonstrable potential to lead profitable projects that deliver value for clients.
• The ability to engage with existing and prospective clients, to understand their needs and win new business.
• Ability to lead and develop others to deliver high‑quality outputs and utilise industry expertise.
• Acquire knowledge to develop impactful and commercially relevant solutions for clients.
• Balance your scientific background with strong commercial astuteness to achieve revenue and profitability targets.
• High levels of emotional intelligence, to develop effective relationships with clients and colleagues.
• A growth mindset, to thrive in a complex and ever‑changing environment.

Compensation & Benefits:

CHR's head office is in Shoreditch, London and offers a 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 competitive salary and a 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
• 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.