Consultant - Competitive Intelligence

GlobalData Healthcare CI Team; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

GlobalData Healthcare seeks a life sciences consultant to lead client projects and develop consulting teams. You will drive business development, engage with clients to understand needs, and ensure high-quality outputs that support strategic decision-making.

The role requires an advanced degree in life sciences and experience across oncology, immunology, CVRM, renal/metabolic diseases or rare diseases, with strong commercial acumen and emotional intelligence.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in life sciences.
• Experience in oncology, immunology, CVRM, renal/metabolic diseases, or rare diseases.
• Proven ability to lead profitable client projects.
• Ability to win new business and engage clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead on and deliver client projects with value for clients.
• Think strategically to solve complex problems across propositions and therapeutic areas.
• Support business development and pursue new client leads.
• Lead, manage and develop consulting colleagues.
• Promote external engagement through articles and events to enhance positioning.
• Support internal improvements to increase efficiency and profitability.

Skills

Project leadership

Business development

Client engagement

Team development

Strategic thinking

Communication

Emotional intelligence

Growth mindset

Education

Masters or PhD in life sciences

Job description

GlobalData Healthcare operates an intelligence platform that empowers leaders to act decisively in a world of complexity and change.

By uniting proprietary data, human expertise, and purpose-built AI into a single, connected platform, we help organizations see what’s coming, move faster, and lead with confidence.

Our solutions are used by over 5,000 organizations across the world’s largest industries, delivering tailored intelligence that supports strategic planning, innovation, risk management, and sustainable growth.

GlobalData Healthcare is GlobalData’s largest division, and at a pivotal point in its growth journey. Following multiple acquisitions and having recently received transformational investment, we are in the process of being carved out from the main GlobalData business. We need curious, ambitious, courageous people to support us in achieving our vision to deliver intelligence that transforms uncertainty into opportunity for the world’s most successful organizations.

Our big ambitions mean that life at GlobalData Healthcare is fast paced, entrepreneurial and rewarding. Working together in an intellectually challenging environment, where learning is super-charged to keep us on our toes, the highly stimulating, fast-paced, global environment we operate in, and our bold ambitions result in unique learning opportunities for our people.

The role…

As a Consultant, you will support the growth and success of the business by leading the delivery of projects, leading and developing our consulting teams, proactively driving business development, and partnering with our clients to ensure we deliver high-quality services that enable their strategic decision-making.

What you’ll be doing…

• Project leadership – Leading on and successfully delivering client projects, ensuring they are delivered to plan and provide value for clients.
• Delivering excellence – Thinking strategically and critically to solve complex problems across a range of proposition and therapeutic areas. Delivering a range of project types with varying levels of complexity, and the planning, design and facilitation of workshops.
• Business development – Facilitating the growth of existing accounts by regularly maintaining engagement with existing client leads and identifying opportunities to expand the scope of projects. Supporting the acquisition of new clients through actively pursuing new client leads. Significantly contributing towards proposals and pitches to convert these into new wins.
• Leading others – Leading, managing and developing consulting colleagues through effective communication and feedback, supporting personalised development to foster innovation and diverse thinking that adds value for our clients whilst building capabilities and behaviours that enable our people to realise their potential.
• External engagement – Promoting our business to enhance our strategic decision making and competitive positioning through writing blog articles and attending key events [e.g. conferences, networking events etc.], interacting with a variety of external stakeholders [e.g. clients, experts etc.], gaining insights, keeping abreast of industry developments and developing professional networks.
• Internal engagement – Contributing and supporting internal improvement initiatives to increase the efficiency, delivery rate, and profitability of projects. Shaping our culture for the future through active participation in wider projects and initiatives.

What we’re looking for…

You will have an advanced [Masters or PhD] degree with experience in one of the following; Oncology, Immunology, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic diseases [CVRM], Rare diseases. You will be an experienced life sciences consultant, having developed the following capabilities over your career:

• A proven record or demonstrable potential to lead profitable projects that deliver value for clients.
• The ability to engage with existing and prospective clients, to understand their needs and win new business.
• Be able to lead and develop others to deliver high quality outputs and utilise industry expertise.
• Acquire knowledge to develop impactful and commercially relevant solutions for clients.
• Be able to balance your scientific background with strong commercial astuteness to achieve revenue and profitability targets.
• High levels of emotional intelligence, to develop effective relationships with clients and colleagues.
• A growth mindset, to thrive in a complex and ever-changing environment.

You will be energised by driving innovation and improvement projects that align with our strategic and cultural goals, in addition to being skilled in leading your team through change programmes.

In addition to a rewarding career, we support our GlobalData Heathcare colleagues with a range of benefits across health, finances, fitness, travel, tech and more. To find out more about the roles and benefits on offer in your region, visit careers.globaldata.com

GlobalData Healthcare believes strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. GlobalData Healthcare is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.