Senior Consultant, Management Consulting, Healthcare in England

The role at CF Carnall Farrar (CF) is a growing consultancy which works across all aspects of the health sector from supporting the NHS to serving major life science companies. We are passionate about, and experts in, health and healthcare. Founded in 2013 we have grown to a core staff base of management consultants, technical consultants, a data operations team and corporate functions. We have a strong reputation with the NHS, and are actively seeking to spread awareness of our brand and offers across the health sector more broadly.

We help organisations to improve population health and the effectiveness of life sciences and healthcare through understanding their aspirations, helping them to identify the opportunities to create value, spotting and applying innovation in practice, adopting best-in-class management approaches and providing hands-on support to deliver improvements. Our consulting is renowned for its use of data and the insights this creates. We have access to more UK healthcare data than any other company and are expert in its safe use for delivering healthcare, improving health, managing services, supporting uptake of innovation, undertaking research, and generating evidence.

By joining our team as a Senior Consultant with healthcare expertise you will become an integral part of a passionate group of healthcare consultants committed to enhancing health and care for all. Our team comprises dedicated experts, including esteemed leaders from the NHS and renowned consultancies, who possess a wealth of experience in driving impactful change within the healthcare sector.

Responsibilities:

• Plan problem solving and lead on specific elements of your own workstream.
• Contribute effectively to problem solving through conducting analysis and research with a high level of independence against delivery timelines.
• Consistently develop high-quality, client ready end products.
• Present and communicate effectively with clients, including leading elements of stakeholder engagement.
• Manage delivery of own workstream, appropriately flagging risks and escalations including capacity.
• Build constructive relationships with individuals from previous, existing and new clients, including supporting discussion of future requirements.
• Contribute to the development of high-quality proposals for existing and new clients, and support responses to competitive tenders.
• Create effective team working internal to CF and with clients, including supporting developing junior team members and providing effective feedback.
• Willingness and ability to travel to clients within the UK.

Requirements:

• Prior experience within strategy or management consulting, demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of the healthcare sector.
• Ability to think strategically and support the development of comprehensive plans to address complex healthcare challenges.
• Project management skills, including multitasking and delivering successful outcomes within own workstream.
• Proficiency in research and data analysis, with the ability to collect, interpret, and leverage complex data sets for informed decision-making with minimal supervision.
• Experience in mentoring and supporting team members to develop and deliver to project timelines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to establish and nurture client relationships.
• Demonstration of business development acumen, such as identifying opportunities and contributing to organisational growth.
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends and best practices.
• Willingness and ability to travel.

We follow a hybrid working model that balances in person connections and remote work to drive exceptional client impact. We enjoy working in person together with clients and colleagues and work where clients need us to be. In supporting flexibility and remote working, team members can work from home one day per week as standard. Additionally, we offer 44 remote working days per year which can be used to top up your working from home days and enable you to work from home up to two days per week-subject to client needs.

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive culture where diversity thrives, and all our people can excel. We only recruit, promote and reward our people based on their skills and contribution, without regard to gender, race, disability, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or other characteristics.

Holiday entitlement: 25 days/year for staff and 30 days/year for leadership increasing by 1 day for every year of service up to a maximum of 35 days of holiday per year.

We contribute 7% of your salary into your pension, while you contribute 3% (or more if you like).

Access to a flexible benefits programme giving you the chance to increase pension contributions, gain access to a cash plan or benefit from a ClassPass subscription.

Enhanced sick pay benefit beyond Statutory Sick Pay for up to a total of 12 weeks in any 12-month period.

Life insurance covering four times your basic salary in a tax-free lump sum payable to your beneficiaries in the event of your death whilst in service.

Access to an interest-free loan of up to £10,000.

An employee assistance and wellness Program: including access to telephone counselling, life coaching, interactive tools online and digital content downloadable from Lifeworks.