Business Consultant - Life Sciences Quality

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home flexibility

Job summary

Veeva Systems is seeking talented consultants to join the Quality practice within Veeva Business Consulting. You will manage workstreams on consulting projects for Veeva customers in Quality, planning, organizing, and tracking all aspects of delivery while building strong relationships with customer stakeholders.

With a 2+ year consulting background in Life Sciences and a strong understanding of Quality technologies (including Veeva platforms), you will contribute to value realization and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with excellent academic record.
• 2+ years of consulting experience in an established strategic/management firm.
• Strong Life Sciences background with interest in Quality value chain (R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Safety).
• Understanding of technologies used in Quality and familiarity with Veeva’s platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead a workstream in a project engagement: planning, organizing, and managing all aspects of delivery.
• End-to-end design, build, and delivery of project deliverables.
• Identify and proactively solve problems faced by the customer.
• Serve as primary client contact for project questions and develop relationships.
• Mentor and manage Associate Consultants in your workstream.
• Contribute to business development opportunities and thought leadership.

Skills

Project management

Client communication

Leadership

Analytical thinking

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Tools

Veeva platforms

Job description

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

We are seeking talented individuals to join the Veeva Business Consulting group in Quality, a priority area for Veeva. We work with senior customer stakeholders, as the partner of choice for 85% of the top 20 Pharmaceutical companies, to define and realize the strategic value of Veeva’s Quality suite of products.

As a Consultant, you will manage workstreams on consulting projects for Veeva customers in Quality – planning, organizing, and tracking all aspects of delivery. You will analyze problems, build insightful solutions, and develop close working relationships with customer stakeholders (through face-to-face discussions, workshops, email, etc.) to deliver demonstrable, sustainable value, at the forefront of digital and Quality innovation.

What You'll Do

• Lead a workstream(s) in a project engagement: planning, organizing, and managing all aspects of delivery including scope, quality, resources, risk, and timelines

• Be responsible for the end-to-end design, build, and delivery of deliverables that meet specific project goals and objectives

• Identify and proactively solve problems faced by the customer

• Be a primary client contact for operational project questions, developing the relationship through face-to-face discussions, workshops, phone, and email contact

• Manage the work and priorities of Associate Consultants in your workstream

• Support and mentor Associates in developing skills and professional capabilities

• Build trusted relationships with customer stakeholders

• Bring to your customers a good level of industry/market/functional insights

• Provide input into business development opportunities and proposals

• Help develop and disseminate thought leadership

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and excellent academic record

• 2+ years of consulting experience in an established strategic/management consulting organization

• Strong Life Sciences background with a keen interest in the Quality value chain or at minimum one or more of the following areas: R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Safety

• Good understanding of technologies used in Quality, ideally Veeva’s platforms and solutions, and how Quality consulting offerings can both leverage and support these

• Good understanding of the business capabilities and drivers underpinning digital technology in health and life sciences and the market forces and trends driving industry change

• Proven analytical skills, able to quantitatively and qualitatively assess problems and communicate responses across a range of issues

• A problem-solving mindset: anticipating issues early, analyzing, and proactively finding solutions

• Demonstrated leadership of others in the delivery of outcomes

• Highly efficient project management skills

• Skilled in facilitating collaboration among team members

• Able to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization and quickly establish credibility

• Have a strong personal impact and ability to influence and persuade a range of stakeholders

• An effective communicator verbally and written, in English

• Ability to travel roughly up to 25%; this can vary depending on engagement

Nice to Have

• Post-graduate-level qualification, Ph.D., MD, and/or MBA

• Experience with digital technologies – platforms, channels, analytics tools, apps, and emerging technology

• Experience working with SaaS solutions

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

As an equal opportunity employer, Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.

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