Senior Lead, Strategy & Transformation

Medidata Solutions; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in healthcare technology, Medidata Solutions, is seeking a Senior Lead in Strategy & Transformation. The role involves steering transformative consulting engagements, delivering value to clients, and ensuring stellar results through strategic application of technology. Ideal candidates will possess extensive experience in consulting, strong communication skills, and effective project management capabilities to navigate the complexities of healthcare innovations.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Generous pension

25+ paid holidays per year

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience in consulting.
• Proven track record in life sciences consulting.
• Experience leading complex consulting engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact consulting engagements driving transformative change.
• Collaborate with teams to shape client-specific solution proposals.
• Manage multiple workstreams effectively.

Skills

Advanced facilitation

Problem-solving

Project management

Analytical abilities

Communication skills

Education

Master's degree in related field

PMP Certification

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

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About our Company:

Medidata is powering smarter treatments and healthier people through digital solutions to support clinical trials. Celebrating 25 years of ground-breaking technological innovation across more than 36,000 trials and 11 million patients, Medidata offers industry-leading expertise, analytics-powered insights, and one of the largest clinical trial data sets in the industry. More than 1 million users trust Medidata's seamless, end-to-end platform to improve patient experiences, accelerate clinical breakthroughs, and bring therapies to market faster. Discover more at www.medidata.com .

About the Team:

The Senior Lead, Strategy & Transformation (S&T) is responsible for leading high-impact consulting engagements that drive transformative change and deliver measurable value for Medidata customers. This role ensures an exceptional experience for both internal and external stakeholders by combining deep domain expertise, consulting best practices, and the strategic application of Medidata’s technology.

Acting as an integrator between business objectives and platform-driven solutions, the Senior Lead S&T takes ownership of complex, cross-functional challenges—applying structured thinking and creative problem-solving to design, re-engineer, and optimize critical processes.

The Senior Lead’s primary responsibility is to lead the successful delivery of strategic consulting engagements, guiding clients through the adoption of Medidata’s solutions while embedding scalable practices, governance models, and value-based transformation strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Commercial and Strategy teams to shape client-specific solution proposals and statements of work (SoWs)
• Translate client challenges into structured consulting approaches during pre-sales and discovery phases
• Identify and position relevant consulting offerings aligned to digital transformation goals
• Contribute to reusable proposal assets and pre-sales templates to accelerate future opportunities
• Lead and deliver both paid projects and strategic investment consulting engagements from initiation through completion
• Structure and solve complex operational challenges using qualitative and quantitative techniques
• Develop current state diagnostics, process maps, KPI models, and value-based future state recommendations
• Manage multiple workstreams, delegate tasks effectively, and ensure delivery meets or exceeds client expectations
• Apply creative and critical thinking to develop structured, human-centered outcomes that align to the client's business and technical needs
• Drive adoption of Medidata technology through complementary processes, governance models, and change mechanisms
• Serve as a strategic advisor to client stakeholders, cultivating long-term, trusted relationships
• Lead stakeholder workshops, alignment sessions, and executive presentations to facilitate buy-in and shared vision
• Promote alignment across cross-functional stakeholders by managing expectations, timelines, and measurable success criteria
• Ensure the client experience throughout the engagement is professional, value-driven, and collaborative
• Maintain referenceable relationships and positive customer outcomes across the project lifecycle
• Develop reusable consulting assets, accelerators, and methodologies to drive internal scalability and delivery excellence
• Identify industry trends and best practices that can be embedded into Medidata's consulting approach
• Lead or contribute to the design of new service offerings that support digital transformation and advanced operating models
• Operate effectively in undefined or evolving environments, transforming abstract ideas into tangible results
• Continuously seek to improve internal tools, processes, and capabilities through feedback and cross-team collaboration
  
  

Qualifications:

• Advanced facilitation, communication, and storytelling skills, with an ability to influence across levels
• Expert problem-solving and analytical abilities with comfort working in ambiguity and across technical and business contexts
• Mastery of Microsoft Office Suite (especially PowerPoint and Excel); familiarity with Google Suite a plus
• Comfortable managing multiple high-complexity workstreams simultaneously
• Technically fluent and able to understand complex platform and system architectures
• Strong project management skills with a structured approach to delivery
• Minimum of 8+ years of relevant experience, including direct management of complex consulting engagements
• Proven track record in life sciences consulting, clinical research operations, or digital transformation
• Deep understanding of clinical development, data management, and analytics workflows
• Expertise in continuous improvement frameworks (Lean, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, etc.)
• Previous experience working in a matrixed, cross-functional environment
• Prior consulting experience and customer-facing project leadership required
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt required; Black Belt preferred
• Strategic thinker with a pragmatic, hands-on approach to execution
• Highly motivated, proactive, and able to lead others through influence rather than authority
• Passionate about healthcare innovation and transforming complex systems to deliver better outcomes
• Thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments and brings structure to ambiguity
• Collaborative team player who values coaching, shared success, and continuous improvement
• Willingness to travel up to 25% for client-facing delivery
• Master's degree in related field
• PMP Certification
• Organizational Change Management experience
  
  

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Medidata provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a commission on the terms of applicable plan documents, and many of Medidata's non-sales positions are eligible for annual bonuses. Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and provides best-in-class benefits, including medical, dental, life and disability insurance; a generous pension; and 25+ paid holidays per year.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Note: Please be on the lookout for job scams. Medidata recruiters will never ask applicants for monetary compensation, credit card, or banking details.

Inclusion Statement

As a game-changer in sustainable technology and innovation, Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, is striving to build more inclusive teams across the globe. We believe that our people are our number one asset and we want all employees to feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. It is our goal that our people feel a sense of pride and a passion for belonging. As a company leading change, it’s our responsibility to foster opportunities for all people to participate in a harmonized Workforce of the Future.

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