Associate Business Consultant - Life Sciences R&D and Quality

Associate Business Consultant - Life Sciences R&D and Quality

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company - we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Launch your Life Sciences Consulting Career at Veeva! We are hiring recent university graduates to grow the next generation of leaders through our Business Consultant Development Program. Associate Business Consultants deepen their skills and knowledge on how to drive innovation and partnership for our Life Sciences customers (Pharma and Biotech).

Our early career program provides comprehensive skill workshops, personalized mentorship, and a collaborative culture, equipping you with the resources to drive your growth as a Business Consultant. Your development progresses further through practical experiences on our team. Early in the program, you collaborate with experienced Business Consultants on customer-facing engagements to create high-impact business solutions.

Veeva Business Consulting helps the Life Sciences work in a more efficient and connected way through software, data, and consulting. We deliver unique value to this industry through excellent business consulting services powered by Veeva's industry-leading software and data.

Our R&D and Quality teams accelerate drug development across the entire R&D value chain - Clinical, Regulatory, Safety, and Quality. We optimize and unify digital operations for our customers to deliver therapies more efficiently, while ensuring patient safety. Learn more about our team's impact and thought leadership through our Resource Hub (see R&D Strategy).

We hire Associate Business Consultants across our different teams. If multiple teams interest you, apply to the one team of most interest to you. We will help find the best fit during interviews.

The anticipated start date is July 2026.

Work Authorization: Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United Kingdom. Veeva is unable to provide sponsorship for employment visas for this position.

Work Environment: Veeva is a Work Anywhere company. You can choose to work in an office or remotely from home on any given day of the week - it's up to you! Although Veeva is Work from Anywhere, Associate Business Consultants must live within a maximum commuting distance of 45 minutes to 1 hour from Veeva's London Office.

What You'll Do

• Learn how to support and deliver all components of customer engagements (e.g., customer communications, workshops, stakeholder interviews, data analysis, managing timelines)
• Collaborate with Business Consultants to create deliverables that optimize customer operating models, processes, and analytics
• Gain an understanding of our diverse range of projects and contribute to the Veeva R&D quality Business Consulting team
• Conduct research to build industry and customer knowledge used to deliver consulting programs and business development
• Support customers to realize the full potential of our Veeva Cloud software

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with strong academic performance
• Don't have a university degree? That's okay, if you have the equivalent skills gained through work experience or disciplined self-study
• 0-2 years of professional experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Aptitude to grasp quantitative and technical concepts
• Ability to express business and technical concepts as potential strategic solutions
• Basic to Intermediate Microsoft Office skills (PPT and Excel)
• Desire to work in an intense, dynamic environment
• Ability to manage time in person and remotely, prioritize and meet deadlines
• Willingness to commute to your Hub when asked. Typical requests would include project co-working or program team commitments that require being in person
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of your time per year. Travel varies per customer engagement, coworking, internal meetings and events with your team

Nice to Have

• Prior work, studies, internship, or experience in consulting and/or Life Sciences
• Experience with software, data reporting, and/or data visualization tools
• Resilience and strong work ethic proven by a history of persevering through challenging work (e.g., part-time jobs/labor)
• Mission-driven mindset demonstrated through commitments (e.g., volunteering, athletics, student leadership, co-curriculars)
• Fluency in another European language (French, German Spanish, Italian)

Veeva's headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at .

Work Where It's Best for You

Work Anywhere means you can work in an office or at home on any given day. It's about getting the work done in the way and place that works best for each person. This applies across all locations and departments.

Work Anywhere does not mean work at any time. We have predictable core hours where employees are generally available for meetings and collaboration. Employees are focused and available during core hours.

We invest in our offices to make them places where our employees like to go. If you work in the office three or more days a week, you will have a dedicated office workspace. Our offices function as hubs to draw people in, create social bonds, and where random connections and mixing of ideas happen. We're investing more in offices, culture, and offsite meetings, not less.

Product teams are organized in regional product hubs for optimal collaboration and live within a time zone of their hub. Our current product hubs are located in Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, and Toronto. We create opportunities for teams to get together in person regularly.

Customer-facing roles, such as Sales and Professional Services, live near and/or travel to their customers.

When an employee moves within a country it does not cause a change in salary. Where you live impacts you and your family. Not knowing if your compensation will change if you move can cause stress and uncertainty for everyone. We wanted to eliminate that.

Work at Veeva. Work where it's best for you.

A different kind of company. A Public Benefit Corporation.

Unlike a traditional corporation, whose only legal duty is to maximize shareholder value, PBCs consider their public benefit purpose and the interests of those materially affected by the corporation's conduct-including customers, employees, and the community-in addition to shareholders' interests.

What sets us apart

In February 2021, Veeva became the first public company to convert to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC).

Unlike a traditional corporation, whose only legal duty is to maximize shareholder value, PBCs consider their public benefit purpose and the interests of those materially affected by the corporation's conduct-including customers, employees, and the community-in addition to shareholders' interests.

Veeva's public benefit purpose is to help make the industries we serve more productive and create high-quality employment opportunities.

"Veeva's engineering teams take a pragmatic approach to software development. We offer an ideal environment for engineers who value focus, speed and integrity in their work."