Senior Consultant - Competitive Intelligence

GlobalData Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Travel opportunities

Professional development

Job summary

GlobalData Healthcare is seeking a Senior Consultant to lead business development efforts and oversee delivery of larger, higher-value projects. You will partner with clients to enable strategic decision-making and drive value.

You will lead and develop consulting colleagues, design complex workshops, and deliver high-quality outputs that support growth and profitability while strengthening client relationships and market position.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in life sciences or related field with consulting experience.
• Typically 5+ years of life sciences consulting delivering profitable projects.
• Ability to lead teams, win new business and develop client solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead on delivery of large, high-value projects.
• Spearhead engagement with clients across a portfolio of projects.
• Plan, design and facilitate complex workshops; provide strategic recommendations.
• Mentor and develop consulting colleagues and foster innovative thinking.
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities within existing accounts and new clients.
• Represent the business externally through thought leadership and events.

Skills

Consulting experience

Project leadership

Client relationship management

Business development

Workshop design

Communication

Education

Masters or PhD

Job description

Who We Are…

GlobalData Healthcare operates an intelligence platform that empowers leaders to act decisively in a world of complexity and change.

Who We Are…

GlobalData Healthcare operates an intelligence platform that empowers leaders to act decisively in a world of complexity and change.

By uniting proprietary data, human expertise, and purpose-built AI into a single, connected platform, we help organizations see what's coming, move faster, and lead with confidence.

Our solutions are used by over 5,000 organizations across the world's largest industries, delivering tailored intelligence that supports strategic planning, innovation, risk management, and sustainable growth.

Why join GlobalData?

GlobalData Healthcare is GlobalData's largest division, and at a pivotal point in its growth journey. Following multiple acquisitions and having recently received transformational investment, we are in the process of being carved out from the main GlobalData business. We need curious, ambitious, courageous people to support us in achieving our vision to deliver intelligence that transforms uncertainty into opportunity for the world's most successful organizations.

Our big ambitions mean that life at GlobalData Healthcare is fast paced, entrepreneurial and rewarding. Working together in an intellectually challenging environment, where learning is super-charged to keep us on our toes, the highly stimulating, fast-paced, global environment we operate in, and our bold ambitions result in unique learning opportunities for our people.

The role…

As a Senior Consultant, you will contribute towards the success and growth of the business by proactively leading on business development efforts to win new work and the delivery of our larger, more complex and higher value projects. In addition, you will be leading and developing our consulting teams and partnering with our clients, to ensure we deliver high quality services that enable their strategic decision-making.

What You’ll Be Doing…

• Project leadership – Leading on and successfully delivering our larger, more complex and higher-value projects, ensuring they are delivered to plan and provide value for clients.
• Engagement leadership – Reassuring and satisfying clients as a trusted partner across a portfolio of projects and range of proposition and therapeutic areas by ensuring these are designed to address strategic and complex business issues and deliver quality and profitable solutions with an exceptional client experience.
• Delivering excellence – Planning, designing and expertly facilitating complex workshops, providing clear strategic recommendations to clients.
• Leading others – Independently lead, manage and develop consulting colleagues through effective communication and feedback, supporting personalised development to foster innovation and diverse thinking that adds value for our clients whilst building capabilities and behaviours that enable our people to realise their potential.
• Business development – Developing a deep understanding of existing accounts to identify catalytic events at company and product level that could generate new opportunities and proactively pursuing leads to grow the account. Proactively win new business through maintaining relationships with existing and former clients and developing new client contacts, securing requests for proposals, and leading on proposals and pitches.
• External engagement – Promoting the business to enhance our strategic decision making and competitive positioning through writing blog articles and attending key events [e.g. conferences], developing professional networks, interacting with a variety of external stakeholders [e.g. clients, experts etc.] and articulating how the business services and propositions can meet their needs.
• Internal engagement – Contributing and supporting internal improvement initiatives to increase the efficiency and delivery rate and profitability of projects and shape the business for the future.

What We’re Looking For…

You will have an advanced [Masters or PhD] degree with consulting experience ideally in one of the following; Oncology, Immunology, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic diseases [CVRM], Rare diseases.

You will be an experienced life sciences consultant with a proven record of successfully managing profitable projects that deliver value for clients, engaging with existing and prospective clients to understand their needs and win new business, leading and developing others to deliver high quality outputs, and utilising industry expertise and acquired knowledge to develop impactful and commercially relevant solutions for clients. You will have typically developed this over a career of at least five years within life sciences consulting but demonstrable capability and achievements are of greater importance to us than tenure.

You will balance your scientific background with strong commercial astuteness to achieve revenue and profitability targets, have high levels of emotional intelligence to develop effective relationships with clients and colleagues and a growth mindset to thrive in a complex and ever-changing environment.

You will be energised by driving innovation and improvement projects that align with our strategic and cultural goals, and skilled in leading your team through change programmes.

In addition to a rewarding career, we support our GlobalData Heathcare colleagues with a range of benefits across health, finances, fitness, travel, tech and more. To find out more about the roles and benefits on offer in your region, visit careers.globaldata.com

GlobalData Healthcare believes strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. GlobalData Healthcare is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.