Strategy Consulting Manager

About the job

This is a senior-level opportunity for a proven leader in strategy and design to shape the future of a fast-growing consultancy. As our Strategy Consulting Manager, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-impact projects from end-to-end and supercharging the growth of our practice in the life sciences.

Working directly with the Head of Consulting, you will take ownership of building client relationships, crafting innovative project designs and strategies to complex challenges, and scaling systems to ensure continuous growth. This role is ideal for someone with deep expertise in life sciences consulting who is keen to grow with an ambitious startup.

We are looking only for the brightest and sharpest minds. Are you a strategic thinker with a deep curiosity in tomorrow's biggest healthcare challenges? Are you a problem-solver that doesn't quite fit into the 'conventional' box? Are you excited to contribute your knowledge and experience alongside a diverse global team? If so, we'd love you to apply.

Our practice areas focus on:

Human AI & Digital Transformation

We believe AI should augment human intelligence, not replace it. We focus on human transformation, ensuring teams, leaders, and cultures are equipped to thrive as AI becomes woven into everyday work.

Marketer of the Future

Our work here is underpinned by our Customer Leadership philosophy. This is about challenging teams to think boldly, experiment fearlessly and craft stories and strategies that will provoke and inspire customers to take meaningful action. We help teams build the right mindset and behaviours and then embed this thinking into the day to day of brand messaging, planning and customer engagement.

Medical as a Strategic Force

We work with Medical Affairs teams to define their scope as future leaders, build the capabilities required for effective partnership across the organisation, and translate complex science into clear, compelling stories that enable the right engagement.

Patient 360

Patient 360 is our approach to creating patient engagement strategies that stay connected across the entire product lifecycle. We believe patient insights have the greatest impact when there is continuity in what we hear, consistency in how we interpret it, and clarity in how we use it to shape decisions and drive change.

Who we're looking for

We're seeking an experienced leader with a passion for disrupting the status quo in pharma with the below minimum qualifications:

• Consulting Experience: You have 7+ years of strategy or management consulting experience, with at least 4 years focused on life sciences or pharma.
• Commercial Nous: You're confident partnering with our Sales team on calls with prospective clients, building proposals and scoping work.
• Life Sciences Industry Knowledge: You have gained deep expertise working in house or on life sciences consultancy projects in one or more of our practice focus areas.
• You're an experienced, pace setting leader dedicated to bringing out the best in those around you.

Who You Are

In addition to the above, some of the qualities you possess are:

• You're impact driven: you want to leave this world better than you found it and our mission gives you chills
• Your standards are sky high: you understand what genuine innovation looks and feels like and you have a strong track record managing teams who deliver it
• You're creative: cookie cutter consulting is not your bag. You care deeply about finding the best possible solution for the problem at hand
• Ambiguity excites you: you love turning clarity into chaos and know how to guide teams to solve knotty problems with a clear process
• You're an engaging facilitator: able to whip up a workshop in a flash and coach others to do the same
• You're a charismatic communicator: you're capable of identifying and articulating messages clearly and could inspire a blank wall
• You're resilient and relentless: you turn strategy into action and stay accountable to your vision
• You're independent: you're most comfortable with a decentralized high trust environment and never wait to be 'told what to do'

About the Role

You will take ownership of high-impact projects, lead client engagements, and mentor a team of consultants, all while shaping the future of our growing firm. Your responsibilities will include:

• Driving Business Development: Lead efforts to identify new opportunities, craft compelling proposals, and pitch to prospective clients. Build lasting partnerships by understanding client challenges and positioning Impatient Health's unique value proposition.
• Building a Portfolio of Work: Partner with the Head of Consulting to develop and execute a strategic vision for the practice. Expand our portfolio by growing relationships with existing clients and securing new opportunities.
• Leading Client Engagements: Take ownership of strategic consulting projects from ideation to delivery, focusing on high-priority practice areas. Ensure projects deliver tangible outcomes and client satisfaction.
• Hands On Problem Solving: Dive into the details when needed, from navigating complex stakeholder dynamics to shaping corporate strategies, managing change, and addressing challenges in drug development and launch.
• Taking the stage: Share your perspective as a thought leader and Impatient advocate on stage (or on the webinar screen).
• Shaping Project Delivery: Understand complex and sometimes ambiguous client needs to design and deliver innovative solutions. Maintain a strategic focus while ensuring quality and impact at every stage of the engagement.
• Mentoring: mentor a diverse, global team of consultants, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment. Invest in their growth and success while delivering high performance outcomes.

Please Note: All applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom (UK).

About Impatient Health

There are thousands, maybe even millions, of consulting companies in the world. Only a few are trying to bring something new to the world. We believe our company, Impatient Health, is one of them.

Our work is exclusively in the pharmaceutical, biotech and medtech industries, which tend to think of themselves as mature and conservative in their approach to risk. We're here to help them become more ambitious, open minded and creative - because patients demand it. We help them dream, and then turn those dreams into reality.

We are also growing fast. Despite being young (5 years), we have grown some incredible assets - (i) knowing everyone in the industry, (ii) having an 'independent' positioning, and (iii) having a CEO who is known as a disruptor & thought leader. Because of this, we receive many organic approaches from potential clients who are looking for help on a wide variety of projects. We need someone who can work as a trusted collaborator with our Head of Consulting to convert these into long standing, growing engagements.

Here's what to expect from our interview process

• A 20-25 minute intro call
• A 50 minute skills interview
• A take home task, to be presented at a final 50 minute session with our senior team and the Head of Consulting