Engagement Manager | Life Sciences Strategy Consulting

Princeton Biopartners; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited annual leave

Remote-first with client travel

Co-working space budget

Professional development

Job summary

Princeton Biopartners, a US-based life sciences strategy consultancy, is seeking an experienced Engagement Manager to own client engagements end to end from scoping to readout. The role is remote-first with a preference for the East Coast (New York or Boston) and requires regular travel to client sites.

You will direct Senior Consultants and engineers, synthesize research into actionable strategy, and ensure upstream plans translate into annual brand activity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in life sciences strategy consulting or combination of consulting and in-house pharma strategy roles.
• Experience leading engagements and owning client relationships.
• Strong critical thinking and judgment with data, evidence and trade-offs.
• Grasp of product lifecycle from Phase 2 to late-stage lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Lead two to three engagements at a time from scoping through final readout.
• Act as day-to-day lead for Director- and VP-level client stakeholders.
• Synthesize complex situations into clear stories of meaning and implications for strategy.
• Challenge client thinking and frame trade-offs to drive actionable outcomes.
• Direct Senior Consultants and engineers and utilize in-house AI tools.
• Ensure upstream plans carry into annual brand planning and activation.
• Support business development and help build methodologies and tools.

Skills

Engagement management

Client relationship management

Strategic thinking

Critical thinking

AI tool usage

Education

Life sciences degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

AI tools

Job description

Princeton Biopartners is a best-in-class strategy consultancy serving the life sciences sector, known for long-term client partnerships and high-impact work. We work with top-20 to mid-sized pharmaceutical companies, most of them global organizations headquartered in the US or UK, with significant operations across the US, EU4, UK and Japan.

Our anchor engagements are the upstream strategic plans that set an asset's course through the product lifecycle: Global Integrated Asset Plans, Integrated Evidence Generation Plans, Global Medical Plans, Global Market Access Plans and Go-To-Market Strategies. We typically start at Phase 2 and work through launch, patent extension and late-stage lifecycle management. These plans go on to shape the annual brand plans that client teams run. Alongside them, we take on select discrete strategic projects, from market assessment and pricing to commercial due diligence and operating model design. Our strategic planning work relies heavily on our in-house AI tools, which we run in our own cloud environments or build into the client's.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Engagement Manager to join our Strategic Services team. This is a senior hire for someone with a background in life sciences strategy consulting, or in consulting combined with in-house pharma strategy roles, who is ready to own client engagements end to end: scoping, team direction, the client relationship and the quality of every deliverable. Much of the role is judgment: making sense of complex situations and a wide range of market research and intelligence, and turning them into clear implications for the client's strategy. The role is US-based and remote-first, with a preference for the East Coast (New York or Boston), and involves regular travel to client sites. You will work in a small, entrepreneurial team, with direct access to the CEO and senior client stakeholders, and operate as a trusted extension of client teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead two to three engagements at a time, from scoping through final readout, across Global Integrated Asset Plans, Integrated Evidence Generation Plans, Global Medical Plans, Global Market Access Plans, Go-To-Market Strategies and discrete strategic projects.
• Act as the day-to-day lead for Director- and VP-level client stakeholders across Medical Affairs, Market Access, Commercial, HEOR and Evidence Generation.
• Lead the synthesis: distill complex situations, and the research and intelligence procured by the client or by us, into clear stories of meaning and implication that guide strategy setting.
• Challenge client thinking critically and strategically in one-to-ones and workshops, weigh cross-functional considerations across market access, medical affairs and commercial goals, and frame the trade-offs so that conversations end in actionable, implementable outcomes.
• Direct Senior Consultants and engineers, and put our in-house AI tools to work on every engagement, whether in our cloud environments or the client's.
• Ensure each upstream plan carries through into the client's annual brand planning and activation.
• Support business development, and help build our methodologies and tools.

What We Look For

• 5+ years in life sciences strategy consulting, or a combination of consulting and in-house pharma strategy roles (Medical Affairs, Market Access, Commercial, HEOR, Business Development).
• Experience leading engagements and owning client relationships.
• Strong critical thinking and judgment: a rigorous approach to data, evidence and strategic trade-offs, and the confidence to challenge client thinking constructively.
• A firm grasp of the product lifecycle from Phase 2 through late-stage lifecycle management, and of how evidence, access, medical and commercial strategy fit together.
• A credible client presence; clients see you as proactive and highly responsive.
• High ownership and an entrepreneurial mindset, with an interest in building the firm alongside the CEO.
• Daily use of AI tools, and advanced PowerPoint and Excel.
• A life sciences or quantitative degree; an advanced degree is preferred but not required.
• Based in the US, with the right to work there.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer competitive compensation aligned to experience, unlimited annual leave, flexible remote-first working with client travel, a budget for co-working space, and ongoing professional development.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Princeton Biopartners is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members.