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About You

Do you want to specialise in drug development or commercialization strategy? Do you want to support biopharmaceutical drug development or commercialization strategy? Are you looking to become the catalyst between clinical and commercial success? Prescient is looking for seasoned consultants or engagement managers to join us as an Engagement Manager for our growing Competitive Strategy business in London, UK. Do you have experience in and a passion for:

• Managing and growing client accounts through successful project execution?
• Supporting highly complex projects?
• Delivering solutions based on your knowledge of the evolving US global biopharmaceutical market and trends in disease areas?
• Mentoring and developing project teams by using your core consultancy skills through on-the-job coaching?

If so, consider turning your expertise into a valuable career at Prescient.

About Prescient Competitive Strategy

Prescient Competitive Strategy, a Prescient Healthcare Group business, is a best-in-class biopharma intelligence agency providing impactful insight and decision support to product and portfolio teams from early clinical development through to loss of exclusivity.

About the Opportunity

As an Engagement Manager, your time will be divided as follows:

• 70% on project management and delivery
• 20% on conducting primary and secondary research
• 10% on client business development within existing accounts

You will be part of a fast-growing PE-backed business that allows high-performing employees to make an impact and contribute to growing the business. You will have the chance to channel your advanced degree into supporting the development and commercialization of portfolios, assets and brands by integrating therapeutic, clinical and commercial expertise to ensure that clients are able to make confident decisions.

You will be responsible for executing successful intelligence and insight engagements across our clients’ product and company life cycles, and for growing revenue within existing accounts. As your clients will mainly be in the US, the Engagement Manager position requires a thorough understanding of the evolving US biopharmaceutical market and trends. Many projects will also involve global client stakeholders; therefore, knowledge of drug development and commercialization in other markets is also desirable.

• Reporting: You will report to one of our Senior Staff Members
• Time Allocation: 80% of your time will be spent in office and 20% in domestic or international travel (for client meetings, conferences and inter-office visits)

Key Responsibilities

• Project Management: Ensure three-dimensional management of client engagements including design, planning, client management, people management, evidence collection, analysis and reporting
• Client Management: Collaborate with other members of the project and account teams to ensure the clients experience best-in‑class customer service and that projects are run in a proactive, communicative and efficient manner
• Business Development: Seek out new business within existing accounts and pursue opportunities with new brands
• Subject Matter Expertise: Act as a valued subject matter expert externally, and mentor junior staff internally
• Secondary Data Analytics: Contribute to sourcing, analysis and reporting of published information, be it scientific, clinical, commercial, corporate or market
• Evidence Generation: Collect market, competitor and stakeholder evidence through desk‑based interviewing and elicitation
• Analysis and Reporting: Collaborate with other members of the project team to analyze findings, develop insights and implications and create client presentations that deliver a linear, evidence‑based story on the topics in focus
• Conference Attendance: Cover key conferences with the objectives of interacting with a wide range of experts and delegates and attending key symposia, presentations, posters and booths
• Line Management: Mentor the members of the Intelligence & Insight team by identifying their strengths and opportunities and supporting their development; ensure sustained focus on delivering concise insights that can create impact and be of value to our clients

• One or more of the following degrees in the life sciences: PhD, MD/MSc combination, MBA
• More than 5 years of professional experience in consulting
• Excellent business development skills to cultivate and grow existing client relationships, strong account management skills and exceptional ability to develop insights and implications from complex sets of data
• Extensive experience managing and developing consulting account teams
• Confident communication skills to interact with clients on a peer‑to‑peer basis and provide subject matter expertise

What We Offer

• Competitive package and remuneration linked to performance
• High‑growth, entrepreneurial environment where you can create significant client and business value and forge your own path
• Platform for accelerated professional development and career growth with significant levels of responsibility and accountability
• Opportunity to manage extraordinary teams that are driven by personal learning and client impact

About Prescient Healthcare Group

Prescient® is a pharma services firm specializing in dynamic decision support and product and portfolio strategy. We partner with our clients to turn science into value by helping them understand the potential of their molecules, shaping their strategic plans and allowing their decision making to be the biggest differentiating factor in the success of their products. When companies partner with Prescient, the molecules in their hands have a greater potential for success than the same science in the hands of their competitors.

Founded in 2007, Prescient is a global firm with a footprint in eight cities across three continents. Our team of more than 475 experts partners with 23 of the top 25 biopharmaceutical companies, the fastest‑growing mid‑caps and cutting‑edge emerging biotechs, including some of the biggest and most innovative brands. More than 80% of our employees hold advanced life sciences degrees, and our teams deliver an impressive depth of therapeutic, clinical and commercial expertise.

Prescient has been a portfolio company of Baird Capital since 2017 and Bridgepoint Development Capital since 2021. For more information, please visit: www.prescienthg.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and fully comply with applicable legislation in all of the geographies in which we operate. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to veteran status, uniformed service member status, race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other category protected by applicable national, federal, state or local laws.

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