Consulting Manager – Capability Building/ Business Transformation/ Functional Excellence

Executive Insight; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare consultancy in London is seeking a Consulting Manager to lead consulting projects for biopharmaceutical companies. The role involves overseeing project delivery, managing client relationships, and developing tailored strategies. Ideal candidates will have over 6 years of consulting experience in the pharmaceutical industry, strong leadership skills, and fluency in English. This full-time position offers an opportunity to work in a collaborative environment focused on impactful healthcare solutions.

Benefits

Collaborative work environment

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years consulting experience in pharmaceutical or life sciences.
• Experience managing 3+ projects with teams of 3+ consultants.
• Ability to engage with senior stakeholders effectively.

Responsibilities

• Drive engagement from outset to completion ensuring client satisfaction.
• Oversee project delivery and manage client relationships.
• Develop business cases and KPIs for sustainable performance.

Skills

Consulting experience

Leadership

Structured problem solving

Fluency in English

Education

Degree in a relevant field

Job description

Consulting Manager – Capability Building / Business Transformation/Functional Excellence

Location: London | Full-time

Join Executive Insight and help shape the future of healthcare.

About Executive Insight

Executive Insight is a specialised healthcare consultancy that partners with leading biopharmaceutical companies to prepare, launch, and commercialise their products successfully. With offices in London, Zurich, and New York, we work as one integrated team across borders.

Our culture is built on honesty, freedom, and caring. We believe that while individual talent is essential, true excellence is achieved through collaboration, shared ideas, and intellectual curiosity. We foster a non-hierarchical, open environment where teamwork and trust drive impactful outcomes in the dynamic world of healthcare consulting.

About the Role

As a Manager at Executive Insight, you are responsible for driving an engagement from the outset to its completion to the client’s satisfaction and according to internal quality and profitability standards. Your role is to define objectives, scope, deliverables, approach, and plan for any given engagement. Managers build the team, guide, and coach consultants, solve issues, and anticipate pitfalls in active collaboration with the Engagement Lead on the project. You will typically oversee up to 3 or more projects simultaneously, depending on size and complexity. Managers at Executive Insight are responsible for:

• Acting as the day‑to‑day manager for a portfolio of consulting projects with full responsibility for project delivery, team and project resource management, client relationships and upwards management with senior leaders
• Actively developing juniors on the project in general consulting skills and project related content and functional knowledge
• Contributing to business development by identifying and scoping out new projects, preparing proposals and participating in sales pitches
• Supporting people‑related and company internal activities such as recruitment, mentoring, support our service offering and more

Specific role focus

You’ll be joining a growing consulting team that works with senior client executives in defining and delivering bespoke functional strategies. Your project work will include:

• Translating complex or ambiguous business challenges of pharma medical affairs and market access teams into deliverables that are tailored to client situation and context and aligned with senior client stakeholders.
• Collaborating with client executives to define functional strategies, organizational change requirements and deliver transformation initiatives that align people, processes, and technology to achieve sustainable results.
• Developing business cases, KPIs, and performance measurement frameworks to measure impact and sustain performance.
• Designing and delivering change management programs, training, and organisational development initiatives that drive sustainable adoption and capability building.
• Building and nurturing long‑term client relationships based on trust, transparency, and consistent value delivery.

What We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate for this Manager role will have:

• A minimum of 6 years’ consulting experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry, ideally with in-depth Medical Affairs expertise.
• Strong experience in overseeing projects in one or more of the following areas:
  • Capability building: Critical assessment of organisational capabilities, defining future‑ready capabilities, outlining change requirements.
  • Business /Organisational Transformation: Organisational and operational model re‑design, role & responsibility and governance definition, interaction model between global medical and key local markets.
• Leadership— proven experience as the primary client contact, with the ability to align stakeholders, managing leadership steering committees, reaching organisational buy‑in and communicating effectively across diverse audiences.
• Managed portfolio of 3+ projects and led teams of 3+ consultants.
• Strong expertise in the core strategy consulting competencies and approaches:
  • Structured problem solving – break down ambiguous client problems into hypothesis‑driven workstreams.
  • Executive Presence – comfortable presenting to C‑minus‑1 stakeholders (e.g., VP of Medical Affairs, Head of Commercial).
  • Change Navigation – Hands‑on experience in change management, developing stakeholder engagement plans and resonating corporate communication.
• Fluency in English, with proficiency in additional languages being a plus.
• Candidates must have full right to work in the UK, as we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

Why Executive Insight?

At Executive Insight, we value diverse perspectives, deep expertise, and long‑term client relationships. We are committed to delivering exceptional quality and fostering a supportive, high‑performing team culture. We know that our people are our greatest asset. That’s why we invest in a thoughtful recruitment process—to ensure the right fit for both you and us.

Please note: We are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies for this role.