Job Family: Strategy & Transformation Consulting

Travel Required: Up to 25%

Clearance Required: None

Is life sciences in your DNA? Breakthroughs in pharma are helping people live healthier lives, while medical devices enable patients to proactively maintain health — this is undoubtedly a transformative time for health care companies. Guidehouse’s Life Sciences practice is an engine of innovation, helping pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostic companies develop custom solutions that tackle today’s challenges, while anticipating tomorrow’s.

You will have an immediate impact by partnering with our clients, across all levels, to deliver product planning, pricing, reimbursement, product commercialization, and regulatory and compliance solutions. Do you think you are up for the challenge?

Guidehouse encourages career development and hiring for the long term. Managing Consultants follow a clearly defined career path. As Managing Consultants hone their project management skills, ability to manage multiple work streams, professional expertise, and client and business development skills, they progress to the position of Associate Director.
What You Will Do:

Managing Consultants are responsible for managing projects from cultivation to completion. In this role, you will manage the activities of the designated project team and support the day to day management of the client relationship. You are expected to effectively develop and manage work plans, staffing, deadlines and budgets and are expected to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Work products are expected to be high quality and client ready.

In this visible role, you will lead team meetings and guide, manage, and coach Consultants and Senior Consultants, providing constructive feedback on their project participation and overall career development. Managing Consultants work closely with Directors and Managing Directors to keep them abreast of project progress and important developments. Managing Consultants take part in sales initiatives and Practice development. Travel is project dependent but averages 20 percent.
What You Will Need:
• BA/BS degree in Science, Engineering, Healthcare, Business or related course of study.
• 5-7 years of Life Sciences (Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Specialty Pharma and/or Medical Technology) consulting experience is required. Advanced degree (PhD, PharmD, MBA) will be considered in lieu or years of work experience.
• Minimum 3 + years strategy, commercialization and launch experience.
• Substantive experience in oncology commercialization / strategy required.
• High level understanding of therapies / treatment modalities used to treat one or more solid tumor types.
• Ability to work independently but with limited oversight from management. Experience in managing full projects, spanning several work streams and teams and supervising, coaching or mentoring others in daily tasks is required.
• Must possess strong analytical skills (Excel, Access, etc.) and leverage analytic techniques to use data to guide client and team decision-making.
• Must have advanced data collection, research, information finding experience and explore solutions that challenge critical thinking.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to produce client ready deliverables including PowerPoint presentations.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to review work product of self and others and produce work product and deliverables that require minimal re-work or editing.
• Must be willing and able to travel to client sites across the US, up to 20% of the time.
• Authorized to work for any US employer without sponsorship.
What Would Be Nice To Have:
• Advanced degree preferred – PhD, PharmD, MBA, MS.
• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must be collaborative and a team player.
• Must have exceptional client management experience including expanding client relationships within an organization and ability to recognize and communicate add‑on and/or cross business opportunities at external clients.

The annual salary range for this position is $-$. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to…