Manager, Pharma & Life Sciences

About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise and enabled by advanced technology the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2000 people across the UK Europe North America Asia and Australia the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources financial services government and public sector consumer products and retail pharmaceuticals and life sciences manufacturing and technology media and telecoms with capabilities spanning strategy transformation and operational excellence all powered by advanced technology data AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringas collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets modernise financial platforms expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics enable digital services in government and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as aGreat Place to Work around the world Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the Worlds Best Management Consulting Firms.

Our Pharma & Life Sciences practice are looking for an experienced Manager to join the team.

Following exceptional year on year growth at Baringa we are excited to continue building our Pharma and Life Sciences practice across Europe and the UK.

The Pharma and Life Sciences sector is undergoing rapid and transformational change. There has never been a more exciting time to work in this sector with endless opportunities to add value to theindustry. Our clients are pivoting how they work asnew technologiesrevolutionise every part of their value chain and the value they create for patients. This continues against a backdrop of rapidly rising development costs and external market access pressures. If you are excited about working alongside our clients to solve these problems then we could be what you are looking for.

What you will be doing

We provide advisory services to our clients across the pharma value chain from R&D to commercialisation using our industryexpertiseand consulting skills. We work with a variety of clients from the large established players to the rapidly growing industry disruptors. Example types of work include:

• Developing strategies and operating models to transform ways of working across clinical development medical affairs and commercial (at global and local levels)

• Implementing change in global x-functional organisations in a strategic and sustainable way

• Developing and operating Centres of Excellence and Communities of Practice to cross-fertilise learnings and successes across countries and regions

• Designing and implementing Quality Management Systems and the associated GCP / GVP processes

• Optimising product development team ways of working in response to change i.e. a new strategic direction changing customer needs evolving evidence requirements etc.

• Supporting brand teams with launch strategies and operations

• Developing omnichannel approaches and building the required capabilities for clients to achieve early post-launch impact in their customer engagements

• Implementing next gen customer engagementecosystems

• Advising on data and AI enablement to realise strategy and drive efficiency translating business and process needs into actionable digital strategy andend-to-endimplementation

• Advising on Patient Engagement strategies andoperatingmodels considering how to measure impact and leverage patient experience data for insight
  
• Creating best practice for strategic alliances to be successful whether that be for co-development or post-merger integration

Your skills and experience

• Strong pharmaceutical and life sciencesexperience through workingin management consulting with pharmaceutical and life science clients

• A track recordof taking ownership managingteamsand delivering results in demanding client-facing environments

• Strong entrepreneurial spirit and the commercial acumen needed to help us grow the sector

• Anability toleverageAItoinform strategyenable operating models and transform ways of workingis highly desirable

• In addition tomanagement consulting experience with pharmaceutical and life scienceclientsyou will have demonstrable consulting skills in one or more of the following:
  • Life Sciences Clinical Development Medical and / or Commercial functions (e.g. ClinOps Stats Regulatory Safety Quality Medical Affairs Sales Marketing Field)
  • Transformation Programme Management
  • Change Management
  • Technology enabled process design
  • Digital data analytics and artificial intelligence
  • Strategy and Operating Model development

What a career at Baringa will give you

PuttingPeopleFirst.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy:We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave fully available at the start of each addition to this we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working:We know that the ideal work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days:Our world is important to us so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund:We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. Weve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme:All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the companys success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity innovation and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our Great Place to Work with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all.Click hereto see some of our recent awards and how weve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work and offer a variety of ways to contribute by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills talent and essence we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

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