Senior Consultant

About Avalere Health

Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

Our 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology — to create the connections that make better health happen.

Avalere Health partners with its clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen.

We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. If you'd like to apply and need adjustments made, you can let us know in your application.

Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits (bonus, pension, healthcare, life cover etc.)

Location: London (hybrid) or remote (UK)

About the role

As a Senior Consultant at Avalere Health you are responsible for the health of the client relationship, for understanding your client’s business requirements, developing bespoke strategic solutions that meet or surpass them, and in doing so develop and grow strong client relationships. These solutions will be achieved by turning research and insight into vision, strategy and plans.

You should be able to build a team and lead the proposal, design and delivery of large-scale profitable projects. Senior clients will see you as a trusted advisor and strategic counsel.

About Avalere Health Consulting

Avalere Health Consulting leads strategic engagements with clients and is comprised of three main areas; Advisory, Expert Partnerships, and Training. The Advisory team focuses on two main pillars:

1. Corporate strategy, portfolio planning, business development, commercial diligence, new product planning

2. Launch strategy, go-to-market, customer engagement, organizational transformation

What you'll do

• Write proposals and statements of work for major projects (>£100K)
• Brief and lead a cross capability project team, maintaining the overall strategic vision and goals of a project
• Seen internally as a strategic expert, ensuring the optimal IP for each project is delivered, either iterating or ideating where appropriate
• Estimate and specify resources required to deliver solutions, for the overall quality of your deliverables and the profitability of your projects
• Accurately monitor commercials across multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring cost is controlled with scope adjusted where appropriate
• Mentor junior consultants, helping them to achieve their own skills, capabilities and career progression
• Seen as a dependable and capable leader, anticipating issues and developing solutions
• Build morale, encouraging creativity and development

About you

• At least 5 years of experience within healthcare consulting
• BSc or higher degree in the life sciences
• Experience working with a range of pharmaceutical and biotech organizations to deliver commercial strategy across a range of therapeutic areas
• Demonstrate an understanding of our operating environment, industry and market factors that affect role and firm, using this to inform our activities
• Experience in launch strategy and building go-to-market models for clients

What we can offer

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.

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