Consulting Project Team Lead - Corporate Strategy

ClearView Healthcare Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading life sciences consulting firm in London seeks a Consulting Project Team Lead to manage multiple projects, enhance strategic decision-making and mentor teams. The ideal candidate has 5-7 years of strategy consulting experience, particularly in life sciences, and exceptional communication and project management skills. This role demands a high level of collaboration, problem-solving capabilities, and involvement in both client and internal firm growth initiatives. A bachelor's degree is preferred, with advanced degrees highly valued.

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years of experience in strategy consulting with a focus in life sciences preferred.
• Track record of managing simultaneous client projects and corresponding teams is required.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage 2 to 5 projects of varying complexity.
• Lead various project types and instill order in project situations.
• Exhibit exceptional project management skills.

Job description

Consulting Project Team Lead - Corporate Strategy

London, United Kingdom

ClearView Healthcare Partners is a premier life sciences strategy consulting firm headquartered in Boston, with offices in San Francisco, New York City, London and Gurgaon. Serving clients in the biopharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostic spaces, we provide world-class strategic decision‑making support across a diverse range of business issues. Our goal is to inform actionable recommendations that allow companies to achieve their business objectives.

We are not accepting any agency submissions for this position at this time.

Our Corporate Strategy practice has unparalleled experience conducting corporate strategy projects spanning a wide array of life sciences clients. We build a deep partnership with our clients and adapt our capabilities and approach to address increasingly nuanced and vigorous questions on corporate strategy, market entry and development, corporate positioning, competitive intelligence, global trends and board/investor communications. Our team possesses a differentiated level of content depth that allows us to understand enduring opportunities at a level of precision and specificity that far outpaces other strategy firms less specialized to the biopharma industry.

Role Overview

• Manages anywhere from 2 to upwards of 5 projects of varying complexity at a time depending on experience in the role.
• Lead a broad range of typical ClearView Corporate Strategy project types and should be able to support any situation and help instill order and structure to a project situation even if unfamiliar project type or content area.
• Exhibits exceptional project management skills including raising issues to leadership early, designing impactful internal and external agendas and avoiding ‘fire drills’ with teams.
• Elevates quality, clarity and simplicity of team output with early and clear direction, hypothesis‑based thinking, simplification of storylines, impact of visuals and pithiness of writing.
• Proactively collaborates with leadership such as engaging for thought partnership early, raising potential ‘red flags’ regarding client or team experience and around team performance.
• Consistently creates positive experience for teams.
• Invests in mentorship within and outside of the project setting and commitment to high‑quality coaching.
• Becomes a standard bearer of ClearView values.
• Demonstrates impact to firm growth even outside of project delivery through internal initiatives and coaching/mentorship.
• Consistently and independently drives high impact client meetings by challenging client thinking, leaning into hard questions and adding value on top of the team.
• Highly trusted by leadership and perceived eventually in role as nearly a peer.
Develops and grows strong client relationships resulting in some account alignment and client ‘stickiness’ (e.g., clients request to work with you).
• Perceived as a strong role model in the organization (e.g. helping others navigate various challenges in the client setting as well as within ClearView).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a science, engineering or business major is preferred; advanced degree such as a master’s in science, healthcare, business administration (MBA) or PhD is preferred.
• 5 to 7 years of experience in strategy consulting with a focus in life sciences preferred.
• Project and thought leadership within the areas of Corporate Strategy such as therapeutic area strategy, establishing leadership in a space, corporate strategy leading to long‑term growth and long‑term value story articulation to name a few.
• Experience working cross‑functionally and bringing together various client teams.
• Track record of managing simultaneous client projects and corresponding teams is required.
• Exceptionally strong at problem solving.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills that reflect significant experience in client‑facing situations.
• Enthusiasm for working collaboratively in a dynamic, team‑based environment.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Highly analytical approach to solving complex problems.
• Ability to work in the London office at least 40% of the time.

What We Value

We recognize that not every candidate will meet every qualification listed. If you’re excited about this role and believe you have relevant experience or transferable skills, we encourage you to apply. We value curiosity, a growth mindset, and a commitment to collaboration.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ClearView Healthcare Partners ("CV") is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.