Life Sciences

Life Sciences | Senior Client Lead

Salary | 70,000 - 80,000 plus

Location | Central London

We are looking for a senior life sciences specialist to join an international strategic insights agency (hybrid working in London). Ideally, you will be methods-neutral and enjoy both qual and quant and also international research. You would also need to have a background working in the life sciences sector.

The agency has an excellent reputation for its creativity, depth of thinking, and strong conference presence and have won multiple research & insights awards. They have a collaborative, mutually supportive and flexible working environment and a relatively flat structure, but they work hard (smartly!), and their standards are incredibly high.

This is a unique opportunity for a bright and ambitious person to join and ultimately lead their LIFE SCIENCES business. The agency's work in the life sciences sector has grown significantly in the last two years, and they see huge potential for future growth.

The role will include servicing and growing existing accounts as well as expanding the client roster through intelligent business development activity, including generating and responding to new opportunities, developing POV and technical credentials, pitching and writing proposals.

Their life sciences work combines international ad hoc and continuous research (both qual & quant), with a lot of work in Asia and key markets of North America and Europe. They have multiple projects ongoing at any given time.

At a broad level, their briefs could be classified as techy B2B since a lot of what they do covers new product development, understanding workflows and key decision points, pricing, value proposition development, branding/brand development and naming, advertising evaluation and development, etc.

Many projects are also tech-heavy in terms of covering equipment and process automation, software, and cloud solutions, so an understanding of these areas would be desirable.

They are open-minded as to whether the successful candidate will have a market research agency background (insight/research specialist) or come from the world of life sciences.

You would be a dualist by which we they mean someone who has hands-on experience with both qualitative and quantitative research methods and approaches and does not solely identify as either a quallie or quantie.

The successful candidate does not have to be fully ambidextrous you don't need to have 50:50 balance between qual and quant in terms of either skills or experience, but you need to be fluent in both disciplines and enjoy both.

You would ideally have a strong background in life sciences/healthcare and international research but failing this, you have a genuine interest in the topic as each project requires extensive reading around the subject.

The successful candidate would be likely to work on qualitative-only, quantitative-only and mixed-method projects. You also need to have a decent grasp of digital methods.

You might be someone who has been working in the life sciences sector for several years. You could be a scientist with an academic background in molecular biology, microbiology or bio-informatics, or you could be a marketing professional who understands the sector from the inside. They would not expect a candidate with this background to have research experience, and their plan would be to put you on a rapid immersion and training programme to bring your research skills up to the required level in the first few months of you joining.

The role represents an opportunity for a strong candidate with 7+ years experience, ideally with at least some basic understanding of market research methodologies and applications, to make a significant contribution to one of the agency's most important sectors as well as to the quality of their thinking, growth and success.

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