Senior Consultant – Medical Affairs

Location: Remote with business travel as required.

Reports to: Medical Director – LUCENT.

Role Purpose: The Senior Consultant – Medical Affairs will play a critical role in delivering high-impact strategic support to LUCENT’s clients at the intersection of science, medicine, and commercialisation. This individual will bring deep Medical Affairs expertise combined with strategic acumen to help biopharma clients navigate complex challenges across the product lifecycle. Working closely with senior leaders and client teams, this role is responsible for providing scientific and strategic insight that informs medical plans, evidence generation, launch strategy, and cross-functional alignment. This is a highly client-facing role, well-suited to someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and can bridge scientific expertise with commercial thinking. The role also demands proactivity in generating new business for LUCENT, helping our company reach its business objectives in the coming years. The ideal candidate will be a confident strategist and communicator with a strong background in biopharma and/or consultancy Medical Affairs, who is motivated to make a meaningful impact across innovative biotech and pharmaceutical projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership and Client Delivery: Lead or contribute to strategic Medical Affairs projects across therapeutic areas, supporting biotech and pharma clients from pre-launch through to post-marketing. Translate complex scientific data into strategic insights that support evidence planning, stakeholder engagement, and launch readiness. Develop high-quality deliverables including medical strategy documents and departmental build-out frameworks. Provide strategic input on clinical development and data generation activities that support medical objectives. Maintain high levels of responsiveness, trust, and professional integrity.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work collaboratively with internal project leads and consultants to ensure seamless delivery and alignment on project objectives. Support integration between medical, commercial, and market access cross-functional approach to strategy. Maintain up-to-date knowledge on Medical Affairs and actively contribute to internal knowledge at LUCENT. Support project budgeting and resourcing discussions in collaboration with senior leadership. Proactively connect and engage with the external environment to deliver new clients and new projects to LUCENT, to support our commercial goals.

Person Specification

This is a strategic, client-facing position ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems and working in a high-performing, fast-paced consultancy environment.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in life sciences (MD, PhD, PharmD or equivalent).
• At least 5 years experience in Medical Affairs, ideally across both biotech and large pharma settings.
• Proven ability to develop and deliver medical strategy in a consultancy or agency environment.
• Proven ability to develop and deliver medical departmental build-out strategy and plans in a consultancy or agency environment.
• Strong understanding of the drug development and commercialisation process.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with an ability to convey complex scientific and strategic ideas clearly and concisely.
• Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders including KOLs, investigators, and C-suite clients.
• Proactivity.
• Strategic thinker with a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Able to distil complexity and provide clarity.
• Highly organised, responsive, and adaptable.
• Passionate about improving patient outcomes through innovative science and strategy.
• Collaborative team player who thrives in an entrepreneurial environment.
• Brings a client-centric approach to strategy and execution.
• Works well under pressure while maintaining focus and collaboration.
• Can think and act "long and short".

Requirements: Full time 5 days a week Monday to Friday.

About the Business: LUCENT biopharma is a rapidly growing consultancy agency, providing specialist medical and scientific expertise to Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology companies in Europe, the UK and the US. LUCENT specialises at the interface of R&D and commercialisation of prescription medicines. Our clients trust us to increase their chance of success in bringing these new medicines to market and to maximise their potential benefit to patients once there. We are unique in our depth of experience in this realm. Our team members have spent decades in both large Pharma and Biotech. We are experienced doctors, PhD scientists and life-science professionals with a wealth of expertise and enthusiasm for our work. We are adaptable and high performing, carefully tailoring our services to our clients’ needs. As a team, we believe there is no greater undertaking than working to improve human health and wellbeing. Our work touches on the lives of patients, family members and healthcare professionals across the globe.