Consulting Manager – Capability Building (Life Sciences) in London

Join Executive Insight and help shape the future of healthcare.

Executive Insight is a specialized healthcare consultancy that partners with leading biopharmaceutical companies to prepare, launch, and commercialize their products successfully, with offices in London, Zurich, and New York.

As a Manager at Executive Insight, you are responsible for driving an engagement from outset to completion, ensuring client satisfaction and adherence to internal quality and profitability standards. Your role is to define objectives, scope, deliverables, approach, and plan for any given engagement.

Managers build the team, guide and coach consultants, solve issues, and anticipate pitfalls in active collaboration with the Engagement Lead on the project. You will typically oversee three or more projects simultaneously, depending on size and complexity.

Managers at Executive Insight are responsible for:

• Acting as the day‑to‑day manager for a portfolio of consulting projects with full responsibility for project delivery, team and project resource management, client relationships, and upwards management with senior leaders. Includes planning out project timelines and conceptualizing and planning for final deliverables.
• Actively developing junior resources on the project in general consulting skills and project‑related content and functional knowledge.
• Contributing to business development by identifying and scoping out new projects, preparing proposals and participating in sales pitches.
• Supporting people‑related and company internal activities such as recruitment, mentoring, support our service offering and more.

You’ll be joining a growing consulting team that works with senior client executives in defining and delivering bespoke functional strategies. Your project work will include:

• Translating complex or ambiguous business challenges of pharma medical affairs and market access teams into deliverables that are tailored to client situation and context and aligned with senior client stakeholders.
• Collaborating with client executives to define functional strategies, organizational change requirements and deliver transformation initiatives that align people, processes, and technology to achieve sustainable results.
• Developing business cases, KPIs, and performance measurement frameworks to measure impact and sustain performance.
• Designing and delivering change management programs, training, and organizational development initiatives that drive sustainable adoption and capability building.
• Building and nurturing long‑term client relationships based on trust, transparency, and consistent value delivery.

The ideal candidate for this Manager role will have:

• Minimum of 6 years consulting experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry, ideally with in‑depth Medical Affairs expertise.
• Strong experience in the following areas:

• Capability Building: Critical assessment of organisational capabilities, defining future‑ready capabilities, outlining change requirements.
• Business/Organisational Transformation: Organisational and operational model re‑design, role & responsibility and governance definition, interaction models between global medical and key local markets.
• Process Improvement: Demonstrable project experience in organisational process review, gap identification, streamlining and optimisation.
• Workshops: Planning, executing and consolidating virtual and in‑person workshops.

• Structured problem solving – break down ambiguous client problems into hypothesis‑driven workstreams.
• Executive Presence – comfortable presenting to C‑minus‑1 stakeholders (e.g., VP of Medical Affairs, Head of Commercial).
• Change Navigation – hands on experience in change management, developing stakeholder engagement plans and resonating corporate communication.
• Experience leveraging continuous improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma, Lean and Kaizen is highly valued.

At Executive Insight, we value diverse perspectives, deep expertise, and long‑term client relationships. We are committed to delivering exceptional quality and fostering a supportive, high‑performing team culture.

We know that our people are our greatest asset. That’s why we invest in a thoughtful recruitment process—to ensure the right fit for both you and us.

Please note: We are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies for this role.