Consultant/Senior Consultant, Products & Services - Pharma & Life Sciences

Baringa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks annual leave

Hybrid working

CSR days

Wellbeing fund

Profit sharing

Job summary

Baringa is seeking an experienced Consultant/Senior Consultant to join its Pharma and Life Sciences practice in Europe and the UK. You will help clients transform across R&D, medical affairs, and commercial functions, applying advanced analytics and AI to drive value and reduce costs.

This role emphasizes collaboration across global teams and delivering practical, scalable solutions. We look for a track record in pharma consulting, strong client-facing delivery, and a proactive, entrepreneurial

Qualifications

• Pharma and life sciences consulting experience.
• Proven track record in demanding client-facing environments.
• Entrepreneurial spirit to grow the sector.
• Ability to leverage AI to inform strategy and operating models.

Responsibilities

• Provide advisory services across R&D to commercialisation in pharma, applying industry expertise and consulting skills.
• Lead strategically with clients on transformation programmes and operating model design.
• Develop Centres of Excellence and cross-country learning for value creation.
• Design and implement quality management and data-enabled processes.
• Support product development and launch strategies with data-driven insights.

Skills

Pharma LS consulting

Client-facing delivery

AI for strategy

Consulting leadership

Job description

About Baringa Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation. Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms. Our Pharma and Life Sciences practice are looking for an experienced Consultant or Senior Consultant to join the team. Following exceptional year on year growth at Baringa, we are excited to continue building our Pharma and Life Sciences practice across Europe and the UK. The Pharma and Life Sciences sector is undergoing rapid and transformational change. There has never been a more exciting time to work in this sector with endless opportunities to add value to the industry. Our clients are pivoting how they work as new technologies revolutionise every part of their value chain and the value they create for patients. This continues against a backdrop of rapidly rising development costs and external market access pressures. If you are excited about working alongside our clients to solve these problems, then we could be what you are looking for.

What you will be doing

Skills We provide advisory services to our clients across the pharma value chain from R&D to commercialisation, using our industry expertise and consulting skills. We work with a variety of clients from the large established players to the rapidly growing industry disruptors. Example types of work include:

• Developing strategies and operating models to transform ways of working across clinical development, medical affairs and commercial (at global and local levels)
• Implementing change in global, x-functional organisations in a strategic and sustainable way
• Developing and operating Centres of Excellence and Communities of Practice to cross-fertilise learnings and successes across countries and regions
• Designing and implementing Quality Management Systems and the associated GCP / GVP processes
• Optimising product development team ways of working in response to change, i.e., a new strategic direction, changing customer needs, evolving evidence requirements etc.
• Supporting brand teams with launch strategies and operations
• Developing omnichannel approaches and building the required capabilities for clients to achieve early post‑launch impact in their customer engagements
• Implementing next gen customer engagement ecosystems
• Advising on data and AI enablement to realise strategy and drive efficiency, translating business and process needs into actionable digital strategy and end‑to‑end implementation
• Advising on Patient Engagement strategies and operating models, considering how to measure impact and leverage patient experience data for insight
• Creating best practice for strategic alliances to be successful whether that be for co‑development or post‑merger integration

Your Skills And Experience

• Strong pharmaceutical and life sciences experience through working in management consulting with pharmaceutical and life science clients
• A track record of taking ownership and delivering results in demanding client‑facing environments
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit to help us grow the sector
• An ability to leverage AI to inform strategy, enable operating models and transform ways of working is highly desirable
• In addition to management consulting experience with pharmaceutical and life science clients, you will have demonstrable consulting skills in one or more of the following:
• Life Sciences Clinical Development, Medical and / or Commercial functions (e.g. ClinOps, Stats, Regulatory, Safety, Quality, Medical Affairs, Sales, Marketing, Field)
• Transformation Programme Management
• Change Management
• Technology enabled process design
• Digital, data, analytics and artificial intelligence
• Strategy and Operating Model development

What a career at Baringa will give you

PuttingPeopleFirst.

Benefits Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work‑life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy:We recognise everyone needs a well‑deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5‑Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working:We know that the 'ideal' work‑life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days:Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund:We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme:All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award‑winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well‑being in the workplace for all.Click hereto see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI‑verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.

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For UK & EU Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at [e-mail]

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