Consultant/Senior Consultant Life Sciences & Healthcare Strategy, Strategy & Business Design

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We are seeking to hire high-performing professionals with Life Sciences & Healthcare sector knowledge and enthusiasm to join our growing team.

Join our market-leading Corporate Strategy consulting team, widely recognised by our clients for our insight and deep expertise. We work with organisations across the Life Sciences & Healthcare sector, including Pharmaceuticals, BioTech, Health-Tech, Consumer Health, Pharma Services and the NHS, helping them to address some of their most important strategic opportunities and challenges.

Our work is highly varied and includes growth and enterprise / business unit strategy, commercial analysis and business case development, strategic business and operating model design, market analysis and competitive scanning, and the shaping of transformation programmes to deliver strategy effectively.

You will work in a growing practice with leading clients and alongside colleagues from across Deloitte, including experts in Technology & Transformation, Human Capital & Change, Financial Advisory & M&A, Digital, Regulatory and Operations. This provides an opportunity to learn from a broad range of specialists while bringing the best of Deloitte to our clients.

Everyone in our team brings unique skills and experience. We take time to help each other build capabilities, deepen sector expertise and develop a strong professional profile within the team and the market.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. 

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

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As a Consultant / Senior Consultant, you will play a key role in delivering strategy work for our clients day-to-day. While neither of these projects are the same, you will typically be responsible for leading analysis and insight for a small workstream or small project where methodology is repeatable, and for producing high-quality, client-ready outputs with support from more senior team members.

You will contribute to the development of structured, evidence-based recommendations, own sections of client deliverables, and help shape clear storylines and messages. You will work closely with clients and internal stakeholders, support day-to-day project delivery, help manage timelines and risks, and build trusted working relationships through high-quality work and professional communication.

In addition to client delivery, you will contribute to business development and practice development activity, including supporting bids, internal initiatives and team operations. You will also support the development of junior team members and contribute to an inclusive, collaborative team culture.

Client engagements are predominantly with organisations facing important, often profound, transitions. Engagements are often sponsored by senior client stakeholders and may range from focused pieces of work through to broader transformation programmes. We bring rigorous, evidence-based analytical capability to help clients solve complex issues and deliver value through pragmatic recommendations.

Our approach is to work collaboratively with clients to understand the forces driving change, identify opportunities, and help them develop and deliver solutions across their organisation.

As a Consultant/Senior Consultant, your responsibilities will include:

• Delivery of high-quality outputs: delivering high-quality, client-ready outputs that communicate analysis, insight and recommendations clearly and accurately.
• Problem structuring: structuring components of a client problem, developing hypotheses with direction from senior team members, and helping to shape the storyboard and overall narrative for deliverables.
• Analysis and insight generation: conducting rigorous research and analysis, synthesizing information from multiple sources, and developing evidence-based insights and recommendations.
• Deliverable development: owning sections of client deliverables and preparing them to a high standard, proactively incorporating feedback and anticipating deadlines.
• Communication: communicating analysis and recommendations clearly in both written and verbal form, contributing confidently to internal and client discussions, and presenting work in a structured and logical way.
• Client engagement: supporting day-to-day client communication for assigned workstreams, responding effectively to client questions, and helping to manage client expectations in a professional manner.
• Project management: planning and managing your own work effectively, identifying and escalating risks or issues, and supporting the team to deliver work on time and to a high standard.
• Team contribution: supporting, mentoring and helping to develop junior team members on projects and business development activity.
• Business development: contributing to business development through supporting or leading bids and building an effective internal network across the team and wider firm.
• Practice development: contributing to internal practice initiatives and team operations and increasingly taking ownership of defined practice development activities.
• Sector and proposition development: developing expertise in the Life Sciences & Healthcare sector, building understanding of key trends and challenges, and contributing to the team’s knowledge base and market perspectives.
• Quality, risk and integrity: identifying emerging project risks, escalating issues where needed, and taking ownership of relevant areas of compliance processes accurately.

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To be successful in the role, candidates should bring strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, together with relevant experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, transformation, or a related field. As this role focuses on the Life Sciences & Healthcare sector, candidates should demonstrate relevant sector experience or a strong interest in the sector, along with the ability to develop structured, evidence-based recommendations for clients.

As a Consultant/Senior Consultant, you must have:

• A strong academic record, including an undergraduate degree or equivalent.
• Relevant experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, corporate development, transformation, or a related role, ideally with exposure to the Life Sciences & Healthcare sector.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to structure work and develop evidence-based insights.
• Experience conducting research and analysis and translating findings into clear, well-structured deliverables.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present analysis and recommendations clearly.
• The ability to manage your own workload effectively, work independently where essential, and deliver high-quality outputs to deadlines.
• Experience working collaboratively in teams and supporting more junior colleagues where appropriate.
• An interest in developing expertise in the Life Sciences & Healthcare sector and contributing to business development and practice development activities.
• An understanding of the importance of quality, risk management and compliance processes in consulting project delivery.

We are looking for applicants who can clearly demonstrate the following:

• Strong academic and/or professional achievement.
• A strong commitment to professional and client service excellence.
• Excellent critical thinking, analytical ability and structured problem-solving skills.
• The ability to work effectively in teams and contribute positively to an inclusive and supportive team environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to tailor messages to different audiences.
• A proactive approach to learning and development, including building sector, proposition and consulting capability over time.
• A willingness to contribute to business development, practice development and team-building activity.
• A positive track record of making an impact on work, study or community settings.

Connect to your business - Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

In an ever-evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future-proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference. 

Strategy and Business Design

The experts in our teams in Strategy and Business Design are trusted advisors to CEOs and their wider organisations. Whether that’s launching a new arm of a business, anticipating new and emerging risks or collaborating with other teams, we work on a huge range of varied projects.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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“Working with Life Sciences & Healthcare clients means helping organisations respond to some of the most important challenges facing patients, healthcare systems and the industry. The work is intellectually stretching, collaborative and deeply purposeful because the strategies we shape can influence how innovation reaches the people who need it.” – Gabriella, Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory.

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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