Potision: Consultant/Sr. Consultant

Location: Remote

Who we are…

Deallus are a global life-sciences management consultancy specializing in life sciences and with a legacy in competitive intelligence, now a part of GlobalData Healthcare. We specialise in strategy and competitive analysis. Our strength is unrivalled therapeutic area expertise, deep understanding of our client needs, and proven methodologies to deliver strategic value across the product lifecycle and the broader organization. 

Deallus (Part of GlobalData) has global staff just shy of 80 people, with offices in L.A., New York City, London, Gurugram, Tokyo, and Shanghai. We have a diverse employee population with more than 20 languages spoken by Deallus staff. We serve a large number of top-25 global pharma as well as biopharma clients, and have therapeutic area strength in Oncology, Rare Disease, Vaccines, and other specialty categories. We are looking for talented individuals with a strong background in life sciences to help support the growth and expansion of our New York team. 

Why join Deallus, part of GlobalData?

Our vision is to lead the industry in shaping and refining strategies for those striving to advance healthcare and improve patients’ lives. We do this by applying bespoke, robust methodologies to unearth insights and provide evidence-based recommendations; by building an innovative, passionate, global team with a diverse skillset and deep expertise; and by serving as a trusted thought partner for our clients to help them navigate a dynamic, competitive and complex environment.

The role…

We are now looking for a consultant to join our growing team. Specifically, we are looking for someone with prior management consulting experience, particularly in our heritage discipline, competitive intelligence.

A Consultant manages the delivery of client project(s), ensuring delivery of the projects are in line with client objectives and expectations as well as the project timelines. Working closely with the Key Account Lead, the Consultant / Snr Consultant serves as the key point of contact for the project, manages the client relationship throughout the term of the project and manages the Deallus project team. Consultants will also be members of other teams to support the delivery of projects by conducting research, analysing findings to generate insights and pulling together client deliverables.

What you’ll be doing…

Develops key project deliverables, such as discreet pieces of (qualitative, quantitative, financial, pharmaco-economic) research, analysis and synthesis
Using a range of strategic frameworks, conceptualizes complex data into compelling, succinct and actionable insights
Creates, adheres to, manages, project plan and budget, incl. key milestones, delivery timelines, review sessions, with an eye for available capacity and for potential issues and risks
Scopes out team role(s) and successfully delivers on own such role (including for example, project manager, financial/ quant analyst, communications champion)
Manages small team in executing client project(s), addresses performance concerns effectively and early on
Ensures high quality of deliverables, e.g., through four-eye principle, check list or formal quality control process
Conducts project reviews and provides / seeks formal feedback at the close of every project (or at contract renewal for monitoring projects) to ensure key learnings from the project are captured
Interacts with defined client teams in communicating progress, questions / hypotheses / conclusions, in addressing any questions and concerns, and in flagging issues as needed
Ensures client satisfaction throughout the term of the project
Takes on practice leadership role, e.g., related to recruiting, knowledge management, pursuit leadership

What we’re looking for…

Experience covering breast cancer area of disease
Familiarity, and in-market experience, with the US pharmaceutical market, through recent employment with US-based consulting firm
Advanced degree in medicine/ life sciences from leading global faculty (Ph.D. preferred)
Consultant level: 3+ years of relevant professional experience
Track record of professional success, with successive stages of advancement/ promotion
Proven Leadership skills (functional, team, client, team, etc.)
Experience in pharma competitive intelligence
Strong knowledge and hands-on competitive intelligence experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including issue monitoring and coverage of industry conferences, primary C.I., CI deep dives, workshops, scenario planning, and synthesis/ insight generation
Experience working on Commercial Strategy or Market Access projects
Preferably depth in one or more of the following therapeutic areas: Oncology, Neurology, Vaccines , Immunology, Cell & Gene, Rare Disease
Fluency in languages other than English. Specific languages of interest are French, German, Spanish, as well as Japanese or Mandarin
Publications, conference presentations
Ability and willingness to travel
Experience successfully managing projects or streams of work within projects.

Key Behavioural Skills

Strong interpersonal skills, able to build relationships both internally and externally at all levels.
Proven analytical skills.
Ability to manage difficult conversations with ease.
Excellent communication skills, to include writing and presentation skills.
Possesses a strong understanding of the life sciences / pharma industry, to include recent trends, developments and current challenges.
Delegation and people management skills.

In addition to a rewarding career, we support our GlobalData Heathcare colleagues with a range of benefits across health, finances, fitness, travel, tech and more. To find out more about the roles and benefits on offer in your region, visit careers.globaldata.com

GlobalData Healthcare believes strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. GlobalData Healthcare is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.