Senior Business Consultant - Life Sciences Quality

Logoslabs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Veeva Systems in San Francisco seeks a Senior Consultant to lead Quality projects within the Veeva Quality Consulting team, guiding delivery from scoping to completion. You will work with senior customer stakeholders to define value and ensure outcomes align with client goals.

The role requires 4+ years of consulting, a Life Sciences background, strong leadership, and the ability to travel up to 25%. You will mentor junior staff, develop proposals, and contribute to thought leadership in

Qualifications

• 4+ years of consulting experience in a top-tier firm or equivalent
• Strong Life Sciences background with interest in Quality value chain
• Experience in Quality, Manufacturing, or Supply Chain consulting
• Familiarity with technologies used in Quality, ideally Veeva platforms
• Understanding of digital health and life sciences market drivers
• Analytical skills to assess problems and communicate findings
• Problem-solving mindset with proactive issue resolution
• Demonstrated leadership in delivery of complex work
• Excellent project and stakeholder management abilities

Responsibilities

• Lead Quality projects as the operational face of a Veeva Quality Consulting team
• Plan, organize, and manage scope, quality, resources, risks, and timelines
• End-to-end design, build, and delivery of project deliverables
• Identify and proactively solve client problems
• Act as trusted client contact for strategic and operational questions
• Manage work and priorities of team members on your projects
• Mentor Consultants and Associates in skills and capabilities
• Bring industry insight to Quality, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain
• Lead business development opportunities and proposals

Skills

Consulting experience

Life Sciences

Quality

Project management

Leadership

Communication skills

English proficiency

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Post-graduate qualifications (PhD/MBA)

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 Senior Consultant, you will manage complex and novel consulting projects for Veeva customers in Quality managing teams and planning, organizing, and tracking all aspects of delivery. You will analyze interesting problems, build insightful solutions, and develop close working relationships with stakeholders to deliver realizable value, at the forefront of digital and Quality innovation.

What You'll Do

• Lead Quality projects as the operational face of a Veeva Quality Consulting team, with responsibility for planning, organizing, and managing all aspects of delivery including scope, quality, resources, risks, and timelines

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

• Identify and proactively solve problems faced by the client

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

• Manage the work and priorities of team members on your project(s)

• Support and mentor Consultants and Associates in developing skills and professional capabilities

• Bring to clients an excellent level of industry, market, and functional insight including Quality- specific challenges

• Proactively lead business development opportunities and proposals related to the Quality value chain

• Develop and disseminate thought leadership and campaigns that differentiate Veeva Business Consulting in the market for Quality, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain

Requirements

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

• 4+ 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 and deep interest in Life Sciences Quality, having delivered consulting engagements in one or more of the following areas: Quality, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain

• 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 complex deliverables

• Highly efficient project management skills

• 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

• Network in Top 20 Life Science companies

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

• Experience working with SaaS solutions