Director - Life Sciences

Capgemini; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading consulting firm as a Life Sciences Director specializing in MedTech, where you'll guide transformative change and foster innovations in healthcare technology. Utilize your extensive consulting background to enhance patient outcomes, build C-suite relationships, and drive significant business growth in a highly dynamic environment. Enjoy the opportunity to lead a dedicated team and contribute to the strategic direction of future healthcare solutions, all while being part of a culture focused on well-being and diversity.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Mental Health support

Diversity and Inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in leading teams and driving business growth.
• Strong ability to overcome internal barriers and build C-suite relationships.
• Proven success in a consulting environment.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for the MedTech business and inspire the team.
• Lead the growth of key accounts and develop strong client relationships.
• Contribute to business development activities and proposals.

Skills

Consulting skills

Business Development

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Job description

About Capgemini Invent

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

YOUR ROLE

Capgemini Invent is hiring proven Life Sciences leaders to drive transformational change for our clients and their customers; a team who are relentless in the pursuit of improving patient outcomes within Pharma & MedTech. As part of the sector leadership team, you will help to set a visionary direction that maximises the market opportunity lead delivery of the strategy, develop our team and position our offers and services for positive outcomes with our clients. We are looking for individuals with experience selling professional consulting services and building CXO relationships within the Life Sciences sector. You will work on a range of engagements across the value chain and provide breadth of knowledge as well as utilising your own specialism and expertise.

As we continue to grow our focus on MedTech (Medical Technology sector), we seeking a Director with domain experience and a track record of delivering value for clients or organisations who are focused on the development and commercialization of medical devices and technologies that improve patient care and healthcare outcomes. This role will contribute to the overarching Life Sciences sector performance, with a clear focus and accountability on building our MedTech business growth.

In this role you will play a key role in:

• As a Life Sciences Director focusing specifically on MedTech, you'll help set the direction, driving forward the business, inspire others with an entrepreneurial attitude to a new growth area, model our values and behaviors, and coach and develop junior members of the team.

• You'll be able to use your deep sector and consulting expertise to help clients in your chosen area of specialism (in one or more of the following): Enterprise Transformation and Healthcare Integration, Research & Development, Device Commercialisation and Connected Health

• You'll be able to draw on practical experience and knowledge of Medical Devices and the strategic capability required to maximise their success within one or more of the following product categories: Diagnostics , Remote Monitoring, Procedure and Connected/ Wearables.

• You will be able to demonstrate strong experience within a sell & deliver model, balancing your commercial ability to seek out growth with clients and leading project teams to achieve successful outcomes for our client's problems and strategic ambitions

• You will lead the growth of our key MedTech Accounts developing strong C-suite relationships, demonstrating account leadership, setting account strategy, collaborating with our global capabilities and leading strategy execution.

• You'll take an active role in the growth and development of the team, building our capability through recruitment, coaching and professional development - with a focus on harnessing the MedTech capability in-house and seeking future talent in line with our growth areas.

• Be an authority and thought leader within the MedTech sector with a strong grasp of the wider healthcare ecosystem, proven track record and highly regarded amongst the network

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development - Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.

• Group Collaboration - Harnessing the capabilities across Capgemini Group alongside Invent, accountability for sector growth, building capability and GTM proposition development for MedTech

• Internal contribution - Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.

• Learning & development - Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

YOUR PROFILE

• To be successful you'll bring strong consulting and personal skills with the ability to overcome internal barriers with drive, determination and influencing skills. You'll have a natural ability to work in mixed teams of colleagues and senior executives and possess outstanding communication and interpersonal skills. You'll understand the importance of developing a collaborative style and of having fun in the work we do.

• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.

• Experience of proposition building and delivery.

• Business development - utilising a combination of the organisation's broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you'll be generating c.£2m of consulting revenues (Director

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don't just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

CSR:

We're also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we're working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone's access to a digital world. It's something we're really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world's most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.