Associate Consultant London BasedUS Hours

Have you ever wondered how the worlds top healthcare and life sciences companies make informed strategic and commercial decisions

Are you looking for an opportunity to apply your life sciences experience in a consulting environment to advance the healthcare industry

We are now recruiting for life sciences professionals to join our team in London and continue building an exciting and rewarding consulting career working with some of the worlds leading healthcare and life sciences companies to help them tackle their most significant challenges.

Who we are

Solici is the strategic competitive intelligence division of Cambridge Healthcare Research CHR. Founded in 2013 and having grown to over 130 staff today CHR gives healthcare decision makers the power of knowing by providing critical insights analysis and interpretation that informs pivotal decisions that advance healthcare.

Our vision at Solici is to help the brightest ideas reach patients. We achieve this by combining research and insights excellence with deep subject matter expertise in a range of therapy areas and a passion for enabling our clients to deliver innovative products and services to those who need them.

Our values enable us to embed considered and curious teams at the heart of any client challenge:

• Collaboration We build strong connections to achieve more together
• Excellence We aim for greatness in everything we do
• Community We deliver beyond work for our people our clients and wider society
• Courage We embrace challenges as opportunities for growth
• Integrity We always do the right thing

Our opportunity

This role will be an Associate Consultant position working US hours (14:30-23:00 GMT) based in our London Office

You will be part of integrated project teams spanning research and analysis consulting and client leadership developing your expertise in competitive intelligence to support our clients to better understand their competitive environment and make key strategic decisions for their assets.

Solicis consulting career path provides opportunities for Associate Consultants who have mastered their role to progress into more senior roles providing greater opportunities in client and project management leadership and business development.

Our comprehensive onboarding and training programme will be delivered in person during your first four weeks helping you build the knowledge skills and connections youll need to succeed in your role. This is complemented by on-the-job learning regular feedback and coaching to ensure you are set up to succeed from the day you start and at every stage of your career.

What you will do

As an Associate Consultant your key responsibilities will include:

• Research planning Partnering with colleagues to develop robust research plans including key milestones and deliverables in line with the client brief.
• Briefing researchers Briefing research colleagues clearly to help them identify and access relevant data sources for updates on competitive landscapes relevant to assigned projects and conduct primary research according to agreed terms. Providing honest constructive feedback to help researchers improve the quality of their outputs.
• Formulating client-ready output Understanding therapeutic areas to authoritatively review e.g. quality control evaluate and develop primary and secondary research output into insightful client-friendly slide decks and email notifications covering key findings and actionable implications.
• Project team and client interaction Coordinating e.g. building agendas and taking minutes and participating in internal and external meetings with project teams and clients.
• Conference coverage Attending conferences in the UK and overseas to deliver high quality coverage engaging with key opinion leaders and commercial sources to drive conversations that address the key intelligence questions and writing up daily research outputs into clear concise and client-ready summaries.
• Workshop support Supporting workshops by contributing to the development of materials such as client briefing packs and assisting facilitators with transcribing discussions.
• Commercial awareness Developing an awareness and understanding of project scoping and profitability. Building a broad understanding of the external market key client challenges and industry and therapy area trends.
• Business development Researching and contributing to the creation of proposal materials and pitches. Representing the company in external settings e.g. at industry events or publishing thought pieces.
• Continuous improvement Using expert knowledge and experience from past projects to proactively contribute towards the development of more effective and efficient ways of working that support CHR business strategy and culture.

About you

At CHR it is our team that makes us successful. We hire exceptional individuals and provide them with the training support and opportunity to excel.

You will need to have either a:

• Masters or PhD degree in a life sciences discipline; or
• Bachelors degree in a life sciences discipline with at least one year of post-study professional experience in either a life sciences or consulting environment.
• Experience within a Consulting or Analytical role would be beneficial.

We welcome applications from candidates with a diverse range of specialisms including but not limited to: Biochemistry Biological Sciences Biomedical Sciences Biotechnology Cardiovascular Medicine Drug Discovery Immunology Medicine Pharmacy Pharmacology and Public Health. We will consider other disciplines if you can articulate how your skills experience and aspirations will enable you to succeed in this role.

What you will need to demonstrate:

• Written and verbal communication skills including excellent English to collaborate effectively with others and develop impactful and user-friendly materials with a clear narrative and logical flow.
• Planning organising and prioritisation skills to successfully complete deliverables and achieve milestones in a timely manner.
• IT skills across the Microsoft suite especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Primary and secondary research skills to identify appropriate data sources and information.
• Analytical skills to convert gathered research into relevant client-friendly outputs.
• Attention to detail to ensure outputs are accurate and of the highest quality.
• A growth mindset with an openness to accepting and acting on constructive feedback to improve your own capabilities.
• A collaborative and solution-focused attitude to achieve success as part of a team.
• An inclusive empathetic and encouraging attitude to constructively challenge and get the best out of others.
• Drive ambition and self-motivation. Our work requires perseverance proactivity and personal accountability.
• Proactivity and using your initiative to deliver beyond expectations.

Essential requirements You must be:

• Able to work US based hours (14:30-23:00 GMT)
• Based in the UK and able to commute to our London office if needed.

Please also see the section on Right to Work and Visa Sponsorship below.

With an opportunity to work in a truly hybrid working environment we offer a flexible and supportive atmosphere as well as a competitive salary and benefits package that includes:

• Annual salary of 40000
• 25 days holiday per year (with an additional day per year of service up to 30 days) plus all bank/public holidays and Christmas/New Year closure
• Contributory pension scheme
• Private health insurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Mind & Body allowance to support activities that proactively support your health & wellbeing (such as gym membership or wellbeing apps)
• Annual bonus
• Cycle to work scheme
• Flexible including hybrid working
• Life assurance

Right to Work and Visa Sponsorship

CHRs ability to make you an offer of employment is subject to the prevailing UK immigration rules. Under those rules visa sponsorship for this position is currently only available for applicants who meet the UK governments criteria for a New Entrant Skilled Worker visa applicant (which are subject to change by the UK government at any time). However if you do require sponsorship we will only consider your application if we have any available Certificates of Sponsorship at the time of your application.

CHR is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes all employment decisions objectively on merit without regard to age national origin race ethnicity religion creed gender sexual orientation disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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