Consultant, Pharma & Life Sciences

Our Pharma & Life Sciences practice are looking for an experienced Consultant to join the team.

Following exceptional year on year growth at Baringa, we are excited to continue building our Pharma and Life Sciences practice across Europe and the UK.

The Pharma and Life Sciences sector is undergoing rapid and transformational change. There has never been a more exciting time to work in this sector with endless opportunities to add value to the industry. Our clients are pivoting how they work as new technologies revolutionise every part of their value chain and the value they create for patients. This continues against a backdrop of rapidly rising development costs and external market access pressures. If you are excited about working alongside our clients to solve these problems, then we could be what you are looking for.

What you will be doing

We provide advisory services to our clients across the pharma value chain from R&D to commercialisation, using our industry expertise and consulting skills. We work with a variety of clients from the large established players to the rapidly growing industry disruptors. Example types of work include:

• Developing strategies and operating models to transform ways of working across clinical development, medical affairs and commercial (at global and local levels)
• Implementing change in global, x-functional organisations in a strategic and sustainable way
• Developing and operating Centres of Excellence and Communities of Practice to cross-fertilise learnings and successes across countries and regions
• Designing and implementing Quality Management Systems and the associated GCP / GVP processes
• Optimising product development team ways of working in response to change, i.e., a new strategic direction, changing customer needs, evolving evidence requirements etc.
• Developing omnichannel approaches and building the required capabilities for clients to achieve early post-launch impact in their customer engagements
• Supporting brand teams with launch strategies and operations
• Implementing next gen customer engagement ecosystems
• Advising on data and AI enablement to realise strategy and drive efficiency, translating business and process needs into actionable digital strategy and end-to-end implementation
• Advising on Patient Engagement strategies and operating models, considering how to measure impact and leverage patient experience data for insight
• Creating best practice for strategic alliances to be successful whether that be for co-development or post-merger integration

Your skills and experience

• Pharmaceutical and life sciences experience through working within the industry or working with pharma and life science clients
• A track record of taking ownership and delivering results in demanding client-facing environments
• Entrepreneurial spirit to help us grow the sector
• An ability to leverage AI to inform strategy, enable operating models and transform ways of working

In addition to experience working with pharmaceutical and life science clients, you will have demonstrable consulting skills in one or more of the following:

• Life Sciences Clinical Development, Medical and / or Commercial functions (e.g. ClinOps, Stats, Regulatory, Safety, Quality, Medical Affairs, Sales, Marketing, Field)
• Transformation Programme Management
• Change Management
• Technology enabled process design
• Digital, data, analytics and artificial intelligence
• Strategy and Operating Model development

What a career at Baringa will give you

PuttingPeopleFirst.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy:We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working:We know that the 'ideal' work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days:Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund:We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We've introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme:All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company's success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our 'Great Place to Work' - with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all.Click hereto see some of our recent awards and how we've achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.