Consulting Director in London

This is a senior-level opportunity for a proven leader in strategy and design to shape the future of a fast-growing consultancy. As our Consulting Director, reporting into the Head of Consulting, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-impact projects from end-to-end, managing a team of consultants, and supercharging the growth of our Consultancy practice in the life sciences.

Working directly with the Head of Consulting, you will take ownership of building client relationships, crafting innovative project designs and strategies to complex challenges, and scaling systems to ensure continuous growth. This role is ideal for someone with deep expertise in life sciences consulting and a passion for creative approaches.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to supercharge our growth, using your creativity and commercial nous to broaden and deepen our current areas of practice.

• Human AI & Digital Transformation: We believe AI should augment human intelligence, not replace it. We focus on human transformation, ensuring teams, leaders, and cultures are equipped to thrive as AI becomes woven into everyday work.
• Marketer of the Future: Our work here is underpinned by our Customer Leadership philosophy. This is about challenging teams to think boldly, experiment fearlessly and craft stories and strategies that will provoke and inspire customers to take meaningful action.
• Medical as a Strategic Force: We work with Medical Affairs teams to define their scope as future leaders, build the capabilities required for effective partnership across the organisation, and translate complex science into clear, compelling stories that enable the right engagement.
• Patient 360: Patient 360 is our approach to creating patient engagement strategies that stay connected across the entire product lifecycle.

We're seeking an experienced leader with a passion for disrupting the status quo in pharma with the below minimum qualifications:

• Consulting Experience: You have 7+ years of strategy or management consulting experience, with at least 4 years focused on life sciences or pharma.
• Life Sciences Industry Knowledge: You have gained expertise working on life sciences projects in the areas relevant to our practice focus areas.

In addition to the above, some of the qualities you possess are:

• You're impact driven: you want to leave this world better than you found it.
• Your standards are sky-high: you understand what genuine innovation looks and feels like.
• You're creative: cookie cutter consulting is not your bag.
• Ambiguity excites you: you love turning clarity into chaos.
• You're an engaging facilitator: able to whip up a workshop in a flash.
• You're a charismatic communicator: you're capable of identifying and articulating messages clearly.
• Your commercial acumen is second to none.
• You're resilient and relentless: you turn strategy into action.
• You're independent: you're most comfortable with a decentralized high trust environment.
• You have bags of EQ: you're able to adapt your management style to get the best out of your team.

You will take ownership of high-impact projects, lead client engagements, and mentor a team of consultants, all while shaping the future of our growing firm. Your responsibilities will include:

• Building a Portfolio of Work: Partner with the Head of Consulting to develop and execute a strategic vision for the practice.
• Leading Client Engagements: Take ownership of strategic consulting projects from ideation to delivery.
• Hands-On Problem Solving: Dive into the details when needed.
• Shaping Project Delivery: Understand complex and sometimes ambiguous client needs to design and deliver innovative solutions.
• Driving Business Development: Lead efforts to identify new opportunities, craft compelling proposals, and pitch to prospective clients.
• Mentoring and Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a diverse, global team of consultants.
• Innovation Strategy: Apply cutting-edge methodologies like design thinking and service design.

All applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom (UK).

Our work is exclusively in the pharmaceutical, biotech and medtech industries. We're here to help them become more ambitious, open-minded and creative – because patients demand it.

• Work/Life Balance: You'll get together regularly with the UK-based members of our team – while still having the flexibility to work remotely.
• Learning Opportunities: Your personal development is our collective future success.
• Culture: Remote-first doesn't need to mean distant.
• Mind, Body & Soul: Stipend of £750 a year for wellness.
• Employee Wellbeing: We care deeply about our employee's well-being.

A 20-25 minute intro call, a 50 minute skills interview, and a take home task, to be presented at a final session with our founders and the Head of Consulting.