Senior Consultant, Life Sciences

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Summary:

In this role, you will provide strategic health care advisory services for the Life Sciences consulting team by supporting business and intelligence development activities. You will manage individual work efforts and projects to deliver insightful data analysis which may include strategic recommendations, effective project management, technical or operational consulting expertise.

Responsibilities:

• Cultivate and expand senior client relationships and be a key contributor to the growth and culture of the Life Sciences consulting team.
• Design and lead quantitative analytics that generate insights and hypothesis generation that inform critical business questions.
• Use advanced Excel and data visualization skills to extract insights from complex and multi-source data sets, develop data dashboards, and create automated and recurring reports with creative use of data visualization.
• Act as a thought partner to project teams and clients, helping shape strategic options and data approach methodology.
• Translate complex findings into executive-ready deliverables including models, slides and concise written narratives that clearly articulate options, trade-offs and recommended actions.
• Experiment with and apply AI tools to accelerate analysis, develop new frameworks and enhance both individual and team workflows.
• Work with project teams to develop deliverables including methodologies, data analyses, and strategic recommendations.
• Present research methodology approach, key insights and strategic recommendations to clients.
• Design research tools and methodologies applicable to address and inform decision-making for project needs.
• Perform data analysis, produce quantitative modeling, and interpret qualitative data to create actionable recommendations and inform business strategy.
• Contribute to business development by shaping proposals and identifying follow-on opportunities with existing clients.

​Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred. 
• 5 or more years of relevant experience in life science strategy consulting required.
• Combination of health care strategic planning with life science consulting experience required.
• Demonstrated technical and analytical capabilities to extract key insights from multiple disparate data sources required.
• Advance proficiency in Microsoft Excel including VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, Formulas, Pivot Tables, charts, and graphs is required.
• Experience working with teams and managing multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment required.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and hypothesis-driven problem-solving skills; able to connect disparate data points from multiple sources into a coherent story required.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau or other data visualization tools highly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to engage confidently with senior executives, ask provocative questions, and facilitate productive, decision-making discussions.
• Exceptional storytelling and communication capabilities in writing and in presentations, ability to simplify complexity for non-technical audiences.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with a bias for option generations and moving work forward based on imperfect information.
• Collaborative, low-ego teammate with high learning agility, skilled at mentoring and receiving coaching, and contributing to a positive, high-performance team culture.
• Intellectual curiosity about how health systems and life sciences companies create value together and a drive to stay ahead of emerging trends.
• Ability to create well-structured, compelling communications for internal and external audiences.
• Willingness to travel.

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This position is also incentive eligible.

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