Senior Manager, Management Consulting - Healthcare

This is your opportunity to make a real impact by providing innovative solutions to improve our healthcare systems and join one of the leading healthcare strategy teams. We are a fast-growing management consulting and data science company dedicated to innovation in healthcare. We work across the entire healthcare industry including health systems and life sciences companies, as well as working with health investors and their portfolio companies. We inspire clients to make change happen and improve health outcomes. We support our people to be courageous in doing the right thing.

Our strategic intent is focused on building the leading consulting company dedicated to the health sector. We serve the entire sector including healthcare systems (providers, payors, regulators), life sciences (pharma, biotech, devices, and diagnostics), health investing, health tech (data, digital and apps) and the wider suppliers to the sector (infrastructure, consumables and supporting services). Our clients include public sector organisations, private sector companies and investors. 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. Our access to data and our engineering and data science capabilities supports our consulting, and they are also available for direct client services including in multidisciplinary teams.

We are growing a team of expert consultants who want to be at the leading edge of the profession and who have a passion for health. With structured career development from Analyst to Partner in a model of apprenticeship, mentorship, and formal training alongside opportunities to work in industry we are cultivating the leaders of the future.

About the role: Join our team as Senior Manager with deep healthcare expertise, ideally with a track record of leading strategic transformation programs within the NHS. You will play a vital role in shaping and executing impactful, high-level changes across the healthcare landscape, working alongside some of the industry's most respected thought leaders, including former NHS executives and top consultants with extensive experience in healthcare innovation. As part of our collaborative team, you will partner with leading healthcare institutions to address today’s most pressing health and wellbeing challenges. In this strategic role, your insights and leadership will be crucial in crafting solutions to complex problems, delivering sustainable improvements, and advancing population health outcomes.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Leading client engagements from strategy development to end-to-end deliverable creation.
• Lead on business development activities including opportunity identification/qualification and proposal development/presentation.
• Support practice building efforts such as recruitment, mentoring and contributing to performance management and training.
• Build and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs and styles.
• Planning and leading the delivery of quality work.
• Developing clear, persuasive, and concise documents for Executive audiences.
• Continuous Learning: proactively developing your own skills, seeking feedback, building knowledge, and sharing your insight with colleagues, staying updated with industry trends and best practices.

Flexible working: We embrace a hybrid working model, combining the best of remote and in-person collaboration. Our consulting team are together in person at least four days a week with flexibility to be in the office between our core hours of 10-4pm.

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. We are Disability Confident Accredited, and we want you to feel comfortable and able to perform at your best in the recruitment process; if you require any reasonable adjustments for any part of the recruitment process, please let us know.

About us: CF is dedicated to improving healthcare through working with health systems and the life sciences industry. We offer clients consulting and data services and products. Our work with health systems includes work with public and private providers of all kinds of care as well as their commissioners and regulators. We work at every level including national, regional, place and local level. We support health systems on critical strategic, performance and organisational issues to deliver the best outcomes for the populations they serve. Our work with the life sciences industry includes pharmaceutical and biotech companies as well as medical devices, diagnostics, and health tech companies as well as their investors. We support the life sciences industry in the uptake of innovation including access, pathway transformation, and use of data & digital, and how they partner with health systems to improve patient outcomes.