Senior Manager Health and Life Sciences (Government)

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.

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We are partners in purposeful health transformation helping organisations deliver rapid responsible and integrated change across national regional and local health systems. We support major health and care stakeholders including NHS England in delivering complex programmes ranging from large-scale technology and data initiatives to critical system procurements and life sciences partnerships. What excites us most is the intersection of the private and public sectors the point where life sciences innovation meets the everyday realities of frontline care and where the greatest opportunities for patients are unlocked. As a single firm working across both sides of that boundary we are able to operate in a far more joined-up way than most: partnering directly with pharmaceutical and life sciences companies as they interface with the health system and working alongside the health system as it engages with the life sciences companies developing the next generation of treatments.

• You will work across strategy delivery commercial development and stakeholder orchestration within the UK health and life sciences ecosystem.
• You will work across the intersection of government NHS organisations arms length bodies and the pharmaceutical/life sciences industry helping translate national strategy into delivery.
• You will support the implementation of the UK Life Sciences Sector Plan contributing to programmes spanning health data clinical research and innovation.
• You will help shape and deliver work on health data infrastructure and research services including national initiatives enabling access to health data for research and innovation.
• You will contribute to the development of new data-driven health products platforms and services working through questions of how health data assets can best support research and commercial use cases.
• You will build and develop a pipeline of opportunities across health life sciences and government clients supporting growth of the practice.

• You will support the development of proposals bids and commercial propositions working with senior leaders to shape client solutions.
• You will play a key role in delivering client programmes ensuring work moves from strategy through to execution and measurable outcomes.
• You will act as a connector across stakeholders and institutions helping align organisations that do not naturally operate in sync.
• You will support senior stakeholder engagement including facilitating relationships between government NHS leaders and industry partners.
• You will contribute to commercial growth activities but within a consulting context focused on shaping and delivering programmes rather than transactional sales.
• You will work closely with colleagues delivering clinical research health data and life sciences transformation programmes bringing commercial and delivery capability into integrated teams.

• Youve worked in health life sciences clinical research health data or adjacent regulated environments with a strong understanding of how these ecosystems operate.
• You will have experience working across UK government NHS organisations or arms length health bodies ideally with exposure to multiple parts of the system.
• Youve operated in complex stakeholder environments where success depends on alignment across organisations with different incentives and priorities.
• You will have experience in commercial development bid/proposal work or pipeline building ideally within consulting advisory or public-private environments.
• Youve contributed to delivery of programmes or transformation initiatives not just strategy definition.
• You will understand or have exposure to health data systems digital health infrastructure or research platforms and their role in enabling innovation.
• Youve worked with or alongside life sciences or pharmaceutical organisations particularly in research partnerships or innovation contexts.
• You will have strong relationship-building skills and experience connecting senior stakeholders across fragmented systems.

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• 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.

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