Manager, Management Consulting - Healthcare

Carnall Farrar Ltd; England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance 25 days

Pension contribution

Wellbeing programme

Travel support

Job summary

Carnall Farrar Ltd is seeking a Manager with healthcare expertise to lead strategic and digital programmes across the healthcare sector. You will work with NHS leaders and other clients to address critical health challenges and deliver lasting impact.

You will collaborate with senior stakeholders, tackle complex problems, and drive growth across accounts while mentoring teams in a dynamic, evidence-based environment. Flexible in-person and remote work arrangements apply.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of the healthcare sector.
• Experience in Management Consulting within a strategy or digital transformation role.
• Ability to think strategically and develop comprehensive plans for healthcare challenges.
• Strong project management, multitasking, and delivery skills.
• Proficiency in data analysis for informed decision-making.
• Excellent leadership and mentoring abilities.
• Strong communication and relationship-building with clients.
• Business development mindset and opportunity identification.
• Willingness to travel and flexibility to work across sites.
• Educated to a degree level (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end problem solving across engagements, structuring challenges and guiding teams to robust outcomes.
• Facilitate high-impact problem-solving sessions with senior client leaders.
• Own delivery management: scope, quality, timelines and resource plans.
• Balance competing priorities across projects and commitments with sound judgment.
• Oversee the production of high-quality client-ready outputs from analysis to delivery.
• Manage day-to-day client relationships as a trusted contact.
• Support and develop teams, address delivery risks, and maintain performance.
• Build and strengthen client relationships across existing and new accounts.
• Identify and shape growth opportunities with clients for follow-on work.
• Maintain commercial oversight including profitability and pipeline.
• Contribute to proposals and tender responses.

Skills

Healthcare consulting

Strategy development

Digital transformation

Project management

Data analysis

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Business development

Travel willingness

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Job description

About us

We are a leading consultancy with a purpose to make an enduring impact on health and healthcare. We work with leaders and frontline teams to improve health, transform healthcare, drive adoption of innovation and create value through investment.

Our consultancy serves the entire healthcare sector, from payors and providers of care, to life science companies, health tech and sector suppliers and health investors. We provide end-to-end services, from strategy through implementation, accelerated by data, digital and AI.

We shape opinion through evidence-based thought leadership on key issues affecting health. With unmatched ability to access and use health data, our consultants are a driving force for delivering positive and meaningful change.

Our consulting is accelerated by data. With an unmatched ability to access and use health data, we are recognised for our expertise in its safe and responsible application, improving health and healthcare delivery, supporting adoption of innovation, generating evidence, and informing decision-making. Our engineering and data science capabilities underpin our consulting and are also deployed directly with clients, often as part of multidisciplinary teams.

We are building a community of expert consultants who want to operate at the leading edge of the profession and who share a passion for health. Through structured career development from Analyst to Partner, underpinned by apprenticeship, mentorship and formal training, we are cultivating the leaders of the future and supporting individuals to develop distinctive expertise that creates value for our clients.

Our strategic intent

We are focused on building the leading consulting company dedicated to health. We serve the entire healthcare sector, including healthcare systems (providers, payors and regulators), life sciences (pharmaceuticals, biotech, devices and diagnostics), health technology, health investors, and the wider supplier landscape.

We provide end-to-end services, from strategy through implementation, supporting organisations to improve population health and healthcare outcomes. Our work spans strategy and transformation, finance and performance improvement, and delivery accelerated by data, digital and AI. We help clients understand their ambitions, identify opportunities to create value, apply innovation in practice, and deliver sustainable, measurable change.

About the Role

By joining our team as a Manager with healthcare expertise and a background delivering on strategic or digital programmes within a healthcare setting, you will become an integral part of a passionate group of healthcare consultants committed to enhancing health and care for all. Our team comprises dedicated experts, including esteemed leaders from the NHS and renowned consultancies, who possess a wealth of experience in driving impactful change within the healthcare sector.

Collaborating with the industry's leading healthcare institutions, you will tackle the greatest challenges our population's health and wellbeing face today. Your expertise will be instrumental in solving complex problems and implementing solutions that have a lasting positive impact on society. This role offers an extraordinary opportunity for professional growth and career advancement within a supportive development environment. You will gain invaluable experiences, unlocking your potential to reach new heights in your career journey.

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of the healthcare sector
• Must have experience working in Management Consulting within a strategy or digital transformation role
• Ability to think strategically and develop comprehensive plans to address complex healthcare challenges
• Strong project management skills, including multitasking, resource management, and delivering successful outcomes
• Proficiency in data analysis, with the ability to collect, interpret, and leverage complex data sets for informed decision‑making
• Exceptional leadership abilities, with the capacity to inspire and mentor team members for high‑performance results.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to establish and nurture client relationships
• Strong business development acumen, including identifying new opportunities and contributing to organisational growth
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends and best practices
• Willingness and ability to travel
• Educated to a degree level (or equivalent experience)

Responsibilities

• Leading end-to-end problem solving across engagements, structuring complex challenges into clear, manageable workstreams and guiding teams to robust outcomes
• Facilitating high‑impact problem‑solving sessions with senior client leaders, ensuring time is used effectively and decisions are well informed
• Owning delivery management, ensuring work is delivered to agreed scope, quality, timelines and resource plans
• Balancing competing priorities across projects and wider commitments, demonstrating sound judgement in fast‑moving environments
• Overseeing the production of high‑quality, client‑ready outputs, from initial analysis through to final delivery
• Managing day‑to‑day client relationships, acting as a trusted point of contact and ensuring a consistently positive client experience
• Supporting and developing teams, proactively addressing delivery risks, resolving issues and creating an environment where people can perform at their best
• Building and strengthening client relationships across existing and new accounts, engaging clients in conversations about future needs and opportunities
• Identifying and shaping growth opportunities with clients, supporting the positioning of CF to secure follow‑on work and new revenue
• Maintaining commercial oversight, including project profitability and forward‑looking pipeline opportunities
• Contributing significantly to business development, including the development of high‑quality proposals and responses to competitive tenders

Flexible working

Our default is to work in person with our clients, but we also support remote working. Team members can work from home one day per week as standard, and we offer an additional 44 remote working days per year. This allows you to work from home up to two days per week—subject to client needs—or use your allowance in blocks, depending on what works best for you. Office hours are flexible within our core hours of 10am–4pm.

Benefits

We offer a competitive and flexible reward package designed to support you at work and beyond it. You will benefit from a generous holiday allowance that grows with your career (minimum of 25 days), a strong employer pension contribution, and the freedom to tailor benefits to suit your lifestyle, from wellbeing and fitness to financial protection.

We are committed to supporting life’s important moments, with enhanced family leave, income and life protection, and access to practical benefits that make everyday life easier, such as interest‑free loans and travel support.

Your wellbeing matters to us. You will have access to a comprehensive wellbeing and employee assistance programme, preventative health benefits, and initiatives that support an active, balanced way of working.

Above all, we invest in our people; offering flexibility, security, and benefits that grow with you, so you can do your best work while building a sustainable and rewarding career.

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