Manager Associate Principal, Life Sciences Strategy

Blue Matter; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A strategic consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Manager/Associate Principal to manage projects and teams in life sciences consulting. The role involves delivering solutions, managing cross-functional projects, and engaging with senior clients. Candidates should have significant consulting experience, advanced degrees preferred, and strong skills in analytics and strategic planning. The firm offers a supportive environment with a hybrid work model and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Health-related reimbursements

Cost-matching education initiatives

Supportive development environment

Structured onboarding program

Qualifications

• 4 years of life sciences consulting experience for Manager role.
• 6 years of life sciences consulting experience for Associate Principal role.
• Management consulting expertise in product launch and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Manage a project team to develop creative solutions for clients.
• Deliver and manage cross-functional projects.
• Engage regularly with senior-level clients.

Skills

Marketing

Data Visualization

Tableau

Customer Segmentation

Microsoft Powerpoint

Investment Banking

Strategic Planning

Financial Modeling

Customer relationship management

Management Consulting

Google Suite

Analytics

Education

Advanced degree(s) (PhD, MD, MBA, or MS)

Tools

Microsoft Powerpoint

Tableau

Job description

Blue Matter is a rapidly growing strategic consulting firm serving clients in the life sciences industry. We partner with our clients to help them achieve commercial success across the lifecycle of their products portfolios and organizations. Our project types include new product planning launch strategy portfolio planning and disease area strategy. The majority of our work is in specialty therapeutics with oncology and rare diseases as specific areas of expertise.

We have a unique entrepreneurial culture and invest in building Blue Matter to be one of the best places to work. We have a strong global presence with offices in the US (San Francisco New York Boston) Europe (London Zurich Netherlands) and India (Mumbai Gurgaon Pune).

What you will do:

As a Manager / Associate Principal you will manage a Blue Matter project team to develop creative solutions to our clients problems. This process usually starts by working directly with our clients to understand and define the problem and developing insights into an impactful and actionable recommendation.

Primary Responsibilities

• Deliver and manage cross‑functional projects across multiple areas of expertise including product commercialization and launch portfolio and product strategy and organizational strategy and excellence
• Support project leadership in the development of project objectives; develop and manage project plans
• Identify required project tasks assist project leads in assigning tasks to team members and demonstrate accountability for ensuring task completion
• Design execute analyze and synthesize primary and secondary research efforts
• Identify key insights recommendations opportunities and threats to inform corporate and commercial strategies
• Regularly engage senior‑level clients
• Recruit develop and manage top talent
• Support new business acquisition

Our ideal candidate profile:

At Blue Matter we look for Managers / Associate Principals that can hit the ground running to manage projects (and teams) and are scientifically trained (either by experience or academic accomplishments) have consulting experience at the manager‑level and have a solid base across all of the following competencies which are:

Minimum Qualifications

• Manager: 4 years of life sciences consulting experience
• Associate Principal: 6 years of life sciences consulting experience
• Advanced degree(s) (PhD MD MBA or MS) preferred

Desired Experience and Skills (M)

• Management consulting expertise and experience in new product commercialization product launch product strategy and organizational strategy and excellence
• Prior experience in specialty therapeutic areas: Oncology Immunology Neurology Rare Diseases
• High-quality deliverable development and impactful presentation to clients
• Demonstrated ability to manage and foster motivated and highly capable project teams
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Desired Experience and Skills (AP)

All the above experience and skills requirements for Ms and additionally:

• Demonstrated ability to be a strategic thought partner to clients
• Ability to deliver on multiple overlapping priorities ability to deliver at scale (or sth like this)
• Can challenge client team thinking based on extensive experience and bring in subject matter expertise for personal areas of strength/interest (e.g. access go to market etc.

What we can offer you:

• Steep learning curve working on interesting and challenging projects across our clients products portfolios and organizations
• Projects from biotechs startups to multinational pharmaceutical corporations
• Supportive environment to learn and grow regardless of your skill and knowledge level
• Being empowered to drive your development own your work and manage your time from day one
• We support the wellbeing of our employees by reimbursing health‑related aspects such as gym membership sports coaching or sports equipment
• Cost‑matching education initiatives (even if it is not work‑related) for your self‑improvement
• Hybrid office and home working model (depending on project schedules) with limited travel requirement
• Structured onboarding program to help you hone your existing consulting skills and develop leadership skills
• Support for your developmental journey with a:
  • Peer‑level buddy to help you navigate your way around Blue Matter and share their experiences
  • Senior career coach to support your overall professional development and plan your long term career trajectory

UK work permit sponsorship will be considered on a case‑by‑case basis.

Required Experience: Manager

Key Skills: Marketing, Data Visualization, Tableau, Customer Segmentation, Microsoft Powerpoint, Investment Banking, Strategic Planning, Financial Modeling, Customer relationship management, Management Consulting, Google Suite, Analytics

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1