Senior Consultant - USA

Cambridge Healthcare Research; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CHR is a fast-growing life sciences consultancy seeking a Senior Consultant to lead client projects, develop teams, and drive growth. You will help clients make strategic decisions and guide cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality services across therapeutic areas.

You will engage with existing and new clients, develop proposals, and mentor colleagues while promoting CHR's culture of collaboration, excellence, community, courage, and integrity.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in life sciences with consultancy exposure or strong industry domain knowledge.
• Proven ability to lead profitable projects delivering value for clients.
• Experience engaging with clients, understanding needs, and identifying business opportunities.
• Track record leading pitches and winning new work.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of large client projects and ensure value delivery.
• Direct and develop consulting teams, coaches, and junior members.
• Drive business development and lead proposals to win new engagements.
• Engage with clients to align on strategic decisions and outcomes.
• Promote external engagement through industry events and thought leadership.

Skills

Project leadership

Business development

Client pitches

Team leadership

Industry expertise

Emotional intelligence

Growth mindset

Education

Master's degree in life sciences

PhD in life sciences

Job description

Are you an experienced life sciences consultant looking to make an impact and work with a curious and talented team to advance healthcare?

We’re a fast-growing, purpose-driven team that thrives on collaboration, excellence, and courage. As a Senior Consultant, you’ll lead client projects, drive business development and guide teams, all while empowering clients to bring groundbreaking therapies to patients worldwide. If you’re ready to lead, grow and make a real difference,

Our values enable us to embed considered and curious teams at the heart of any client challenge:

• Collaboration – We build strong connections to achieve more together
• Excellence – We aim for greatness in everything we do
• Community – We deliver beyond work for our people, our clients, and wider society
• Courage – We embrace challenges as opportunities for growth
• Integrity – We always do the right thing

The Opportunity

As a Senior Consultant, you will support the growth and success of the business by leading the delivery of large projects, leading and developing our consulting teams, proactively driving business development, and partnering with our clients to ensure we deliver high‑quality services that enable their strategic decision‑making.

What you will be doing

• Project leadership – Leading on and successfully delivering client projects, ensuring they are delivered to plan and provide value for clients.
• Delivering excellence – Thinking strategically and critically to solve complex problems across a range of proposition and therapeutic areas. Delivering a range of project types with varying levels of complexity, and the planning, design and facilitation of workshops.
• Business development – Facilitating the growth of existing accounts by regularly maintaining engagement with existing client leads and identifying opportunities to expand the scope of projects. Often leading the acquisition of new clients through actively pursuing new client leads. Leading proposals and pitches to convert these into new wins.
• Leading others – Leading, managing and developing consulting colleagues through effective communication and feedback, supporting personalised development to foster innovation and diverse thinking that adds value for our clients whilst building capabilities and behaviours that enable our people to realise their potential. Line managing junior team members and helping to develop their careers.
• External engagement – Promoting Solici to enhance our strategic decision making and competitive positioning through writing blog articles and attending key events [e.g. conferences, networking events etc.], interacting with a variety of external stakeholders [e.g. clients, experts etc.], gaining insights, keeping abreast of industry developments and developing professional networks.
• Internal engagement – Contributing and supporting internal improvement initiatives to increase the efficiency, delivery rate, and profitability of projects. Shaping Solici and CHR culture for the future through active participation in wider projects and initiatives.

Requirements

Who will thrive in this role

You will have an advanced [Masters or PhD] degree with experience in one or all of the following; Oncology, Immunology, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic diseases [CVRM], Rare diseases. You will be an experienced life sciences consultant, having developed the following capabilities over a significant period of time:

• A proven record or demonstrable ability to lead profitable projects that deliver value for clients.
• The ability to engage with existing and prospective clients, to understand their needs and win new business by recognizing commercial opportunities.
• Strong track record of leading new business pitches and winning work.
• Be able to lead and develop others to deliver high quality outputs and utilise industry expertise.
• Acquire significant knowledge to develop impactful and commercially relevant solutions for clients.Be able to balance your scientific background with strong commercial astuteness to achieve revenue and profitability targets.
• High levels of emotional intelligence, to develop effective relationships with clients and colleagues.
• A growth mindset, to thrive in a complex and ever-changing environment.
• You will be energised by driving innovation and improvement projects that align with CHR’s strategic and cultural goals, in addition to being skilled in leading your team through change programmes.

Who We Are

At CHR, we pride ourselves on a culture that nurtures the talented and the curious, helping the inquisitive and the ambitious to develop skills which enable them to grow as people, within a dynamic team environment.

CHR for Society:We believe that a great business is not just about revenues and profits. It’s also about using our expertise and resources to have a positive impact on society and the environment. At CHR we are fully committed to driving positive change in the world – we want our employees to not only build fantastic careers, but also to know they have the ability to positively impact society along the way.

Benefits

Compensation & Benefits

We offer a collaborative and stimulating environment with an opportunity to make and influence decisions that will drive CHR forward, as well as a competitive salary and benefits package.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and make all employment decisions without regard to age, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.