Consultant - Competitive Strategy in London

Do you have a passion for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry? Do you want to work across a mix of strategy consulting projects that draw from competitor, customer, medical and commercial insights? Are you a highly motivated professional interested in being part of a dynamic team of self-starters, working with global healthcare and pharmaceutical clients across the full product life cycle? If so, consider turning your expertise into a valuable career at Prescient. We welcome applications from life science professionals with project management or consulting experience within our growing Competitive Strategy Practice.

Prescient has three core practices: Commercial, Medical and Competitive Strategy. We deliver best-in-class biopharmaceutical intelligence, acting as a thought partner to top biopharma organisations around the world. Our offerings are designed to anticipate and respond to competitive risk across the product life cycle – from early pipeline through post launch – delivering timely insights and strategic implications that enable integrated decision making across competitive intelligence, marketing, and medical and commercial functions.

When you join this exciting venture, you will work with global healthcare and pharmaceutical clients across the full product life cycle, from discovery to loss of exclusivity, to help them unlock the full potential of their brands and portfolios.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Delivery: Support the design and execution of projects that address clients’ strategic business questions, ensuring analyses, deliverables and insights meet high standards of quality and client satisfaction.
• Account Support: Contribute to account planning by identifying opportunities to add value through project delivery, maintaining strong working relationships with client contacts and helping strengthen Prescient’s presence within existing accounts.
• Business Development Support: Contribute to proposal development, background research and scoping discussions.
• Project Management: Manage discrete workstreams and day-to-day project activities, including research, evidence collection, data analysis, synthesis of insights, direct client interaction, and preparation and delivery of client presentations and reports.
• Client Management: Participate in client meetings, support the communication of findings and collaborate with project leadership to ensure clients experience best-in-class service.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Leverage your expertise in therapeutic, clinical and commercial areas relevant to client engagements; share emerging insights with the team and support Analysts in understanding key scientific and commercial concepts.
• Conference Support: Attend relevant conferences where appropriate to gather insights, engage with experts, and support the team in capturing and synthesising key learnings from presentations, posters and booths.
• Team Development: Contribute to a positive team environment by supporting junior team members, offering guidance on analytical approaches and helping maintain a high standard of structured, impactful insights.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Relevant experience within the biopharmaceutical consulting, healthcare strategy or related client-services environment; CI experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong results orientation, demonstrated by consistently producing high-quality deliverables and contributing effectively to project outcomes.
• Successfully managing client relationships through clear communication and strong stakeholder alignment.
• Solid foundational knowledge of the biopharmaceutical industry, especially clinical development.
• Clear and confident communication skills, enabling effective interaction with clients and internal teams, and the ability to contribute meaningfully to strategic discussions with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Strong learning agility to adapt to rapid change and new situations.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas in simple terms.
• Ability to give and receive feedback.
• BA/BS required; an advanced life science degree is preferred.

What We Offer

• A competitive base salary plus an extensive benefits package.
• A strong values-based culture that is actively lived and promoted.
• A team made up of smart and supportive people.
• Leaders who are accessible and listen, ambitious for our teams, and committed to coaching and sharing their expertise.
• An environment where our thinking and work are innovative, imaginative and bright.
• On going and tailored career development that challenges you and is based on your ambition, abilities and interests – not boxes.
• A culture where everyone is actively encouraged to contribute and influence the business.
• Flexible working schedules, recognition for going the extra mile and a flat hierarchy.

Prescient is a pharma services firm specialising in dynamic decision support and product and portfolio strategy. We partner with our clients to turn science into value by helping them understand the potential of their molecules, shaping their strategic plans and allowing their decision making to be the biggest differentiating factor in the success of their products. Founded in 2007, Prescient is a global firm with a footprint in 10 cities across three continents. Our team of nearly 475 experts partners with 27 of the top 30 biopharmaceutical companies, the fastest-growing mid-caps and cutting-edge emerging biotechs, including some of the biggest and most innovative brands. More than 70% of our employees hold advanced life science degrees, and our teams deliver an impressive depth of therapeutic, clinical and commercial expertise.

We are an equal opportunity employer and fully comply with applicable legislation in all of the geographies in which we operate. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to veteran status, uniformed service member status, race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other category protected by applicable national, federal, state or local laws.

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.