Engagement Manager - Healthcare

Ipsos; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible workplace policy

Generous PTO

Healthcare plans

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Ipsos is seeking a senior Healthcare Advisory professional to help clients in biopharma, health insurance, digital health, medical devices, and diagnostics. You’ll partner with executives to shape growth strategies, perform market analyses, and drive strategic programs across healthcare segments.

The role emphasizes leadership, rigorous analysis, and the ability to translate data into compelling client-ready insights.

Qualifications

• BA/BS required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of life sciences experience in management consulting/strategy, commercial strategy, product launch/management/marketing, or business analytics.
• Experience with market access/health economics/evidence generation preferred.
• Strong project management and ability to lead multiple projects.
• Experience mentoring junior staff and managing direct reports.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and understand market research.
• Proven ability to outline, write proposals in response to client RFPs.

Responsibilities

• Consulting and strategic development with executives to grow new segments.
• Market analysis, sizing, opportunity assessment and market valuation.
• Partnership development and growth optimization for commercial programs.
• Client activation workshops and strategy refinement sessions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define business problems and develop solutions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic development

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

BA/BS required; MBA or other advanced degree (MPH, MSc, etc) preferred

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

SPSS

Job description

Job Description

What makes this role important at Ipsos? At Ipsos, we are passionately curious about people, markets, brands, and society. We deliver information and analysis that make our complex world easier and faster to navigate and inspires our clients to make smarter decisions. The Healthcare service line at Ipsos brings true specialization, offering a unique depth of knowledge and expertise across the product lifecycle to our clients in biopharma, health insurance, digital health, medical devices, and diagnostics companies.

Job Description

What makes this role important at Ipsos?

At Ipsos, we are passionately curious about people, markets, brands, and society. We deliver information and analysis that make our complex world easier and faster to navigate and inspires our clients to make smarter decisions. The Healthcare service line at Ipsos brings true specialization, offering a unique depth of knowledge and expertise across the product lifecycle to our clients in biopharma, health insurance, digital health, medical devices, and diagnostics companies. The Advisory services team was established to generate strategic insights that build upon the company’s core competencies in market research, culminating in a premier healthcare consultancy. You will join a unique team of problem solvers who come from backgrounds as diverse as scientific research, brand management, strategy consulting, medicine, and more. Together, the team leverages these diverse perspectives to solve some of the most complex and challenging strategic problems for our clients across the healthcare market.

What You Can Expect To Be Doing

• Consulting and Strategic Development: Involves working with executives to develop growth strategies for new segments and commercial or product offerings.


• Market Analysis and Strategy: Encompasses market and competitive landscape assessment, market sizing, opportunity assessment, and market valuation.


• Partnership and Growth Optimization: Involves partnership identification, developing playbooks, and executing analytical work streams to optimize commercial programs.


• Client Activation and Workshops: Includes conducting client activation work sessions aimed at strategy refinement and implementation.


• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify & define business problems, develop solutions to address clients’ KBQs, adjust approaches & frameworks to fit a variety of project types.

This might be the job for you if you have:

• BA/BS required; MBA or other advanced degree (MPH, MSc, etc) preferred


• 8+ years of professional life sciences experience preferably in management consulting/strategy, commercial strategy, product launch/management/marketing, and/or business analytics


• Experience with market access/health economics/evidence generation, preferred


• Outstanding project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects


• Manage direct reports and mentor junior staff


• Demonstrated leadership skills, including bringing clarity to ambiguous situations


• Strong analytical, business acumen, and critical thinking skills


• Ability to work cross-functionally, with a solid understanding of market research


• Confidence outlining, creating, and writing proposals (with support from executive team) in response to client RFPs


• Strong knowledge and experience utilizing various data sources used in strategic consulting engagements (including competitive intelligence, custom research qual & quant methods, secondary resources & databases) along with strong analytical skills for applying these sources for opportunity assessments, market modeling, strategy development, valuations


• Experience with analyzing and interpreting custom research and extrapolating findings to address the larger strategy development


• Experience in developing and executing strategic frameworks to address complex issues


• Experience with generating actionable and insightful reports, in a story-focused format, that resonate with different stakeholders and levels, through the development, production, & interpretation of multiple data and information inputs; assigning meaning to information by considering context & different perspectives and drawing logical conclusions based on evidence & reasoning. Ability to explain insights, findings, and analysis limitations to clients


• Advanced proficiency of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint required; proficiency in SPSS or other similar data analysis tools preferred


• High degree of independence and exceptional work ethic


• Ease and confidence with thinking on your feet


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills


• Professional, proactive demeanor


• Strong interpersonal skills


• Curiosity and interest in developing, writing, and leading thought leadership initiatives

If you don’t meet 100% of the requirements, we encourage all who feel they might be a fit for the opportunity to apply. We may consider a variety of backgrounds for a particular role and are also committed to considering candidates for available positions throughout our organization, not just the one you’re applying to!

In accordance with NY/CO/CA/WA law, the estimated base salary range for this role is $140,000 to $165,000. Your final base salary will be determined based on several non-discriminatory factors which may include but are not limited to location, work experience, skills, knowledge, education and/or certifications.

What’s In It For You

At Ipsos you’ll experience opportunities for Career Development, an exceptional benefits package (including generous PTO, healthcare plans, wellness benefits), a flexible workplace policy, and a strong collaborative culture.

To find out more about all the great reasons to work at Ipsos, how we’re making an impact around the world, and more about our benefits and employee programs, please visit: Why Work at Ipsos | US

Commitment to Diversity

Ipsos recognizes the necessity of building an inclusive culture that values each employee’s individuality and diverse perspectives. For more than 40 years, our mission has been to generate and analyze data about society, markets, brands, and behaviors to provide our clients with the insights that elevate their understanding of the world. This could not be fulfilled without Ipsos’ diverse employees who compile and analyze this data—they are the essence of who we are and what we do.

We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees, creating an environment that promotes inclusion, and enabling employees from all walks of life to flourish. Ipsos encourages our employees to act in a respectful and responsible manner, in line with code of best practices concerning diversity and inclusion, human rights, equality, and civility for every individual.

Ipsos is An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other protected class and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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About Us

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!

About The Team

The Healthcare Service Line works with Pharmaceutical, bio-tech, medical device manufacturers and technology companies throughout the project lifecycle from early stage strategy, to launch of a new product, to product optimization. In addition to custom research, the healthcare Service Line also works on therapeutic centers of expertise in Oncology, Autoimmune, Virology and more.