Life Sciences - Manager

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Overview

Why Moorhouse?

We are a dynamic consulting firm, focused on delivering sustainable change. We make sure our clients succeed in their long-term goals by helping them turn their strategy into action through exceptional delivery and a commitment to establishing a culture of change. Clients like what we do and how we work, and we are looking for people to join the Moorhouse team.

We pride ourselves in being proactive, collaborative and straightforward team players. We like to move fast as a team and both honesty and integrity are key to this. In return you will be part of a supportive and high-performing team that shares the workload, looks after each other and celebrates success together. You can be assured of an exciting opportunity that will stretch you and equip you with skills, experience and knowledge that can help organisations respond to the turbulence, change and opportunity that will define the future of work. We don't do politics, egos or personal agendas - it consumes too much time and distracts us from being successful together.

Life Sciences at Moorhouse is a growing sector. Our expertise spans the value chain from R&D and clinical development through to manufacturing, commercial and post-market support. We help our clients on their transformation journeys - responding to disruptive technology trends, implementing innovative products, defining operating models and accompanying organisational design. We enable life sciences organisations to maximise their business value and social impact to achieve the best outcomes for their patients.

What do we do?

Our Life Sciences team assists our clients across multiple functional areas, with diverse experience in R&D and a strategic focus on Commercial, Medical Affairs and Global Health. Examples of our activities are outlined below and on our website:

Commercial:

• Support the development and execution of priority business initiatives across Commercial strategy, operations, product launch and customer engagement. Activities may include building go-to-market plans, designing and implementing purpose-built operating models, delivering new asset launches and optimising the impact of customer engagement.
• Provide critical project management to coordinate the definition and delivery of the Commercial and Marketing team's strategic agenda

Medical Affairs:

• Develop and execute key strategic initiatives across the Medical Affairs portfolio, including the delivery of field medical strategies, provision of key medical input to support new brand and asset launch preparations
• Define and deliver a global external scientific engagement strategy and execution to drive advocacy with the scientific and clinical communities for a specific therapy area
• Work with Medical Heads to define and deliver their strategic agendas, including identifying competitive insights and developing relevant messages and resources

Global Health:

• Work with Patient Advocacy Groups to define the vision, structure, and governance for a significant global cancer campaign
• Define a new volunteering initiative for a charity partnership which enables a skills exchange and business benefit for the pharmaceutical organisation
• Provide project management support to clinical trials in LMICs to enable drugs to reach hard to reach populations with enabling fit-for-purpose pricing mechanisms

Why join the Life Sciences team in Moorhouse:

You want to be part of Moorhouse's journey as we partner with Life Sciences companies to deliver medicines, vaccines, products and services to contribute to better health and quality of life. More broadly you are excited by the opportunity to:

• Contribute to building a vibrant and thriving Life Sciences sector
• Drive accelerated practice growth by leading the delivery of outstanding projects and winning exciting new work
• Be a leader in Life Sciences, taking ownership of key initiatives and enabling other team members to succeed
• Share your valuable skills and experience in the sectors strategic focus areas and you want to grow and leverage these for the good of our clients
• Continue to build your experience in Life Sciences within our strategic focus areas - Commercial, Medical Affairs, Global Health and R&D - through training, proposition development and marketing

Essential skills

What are we looking for?

Potential is what excites us so we are keen to hear from people who want to harness their experience within an organisation that will invest in their professional development from day one. This isn't just about skills for the job but skills for life - mindset, adaptability, resilience and leadership to name just a few. You will be leading and shaping how we run the business, and in doing so will have experiences that will undoubtedly contribute to you accelerated growth and development.

As a Manager you will have:

• 6 - 8 years' experience, whether this is from a big consulting firm, boutique consultancy or experience gained in Life Sciences delivery within industry;
• Experience in the following areas:
• Advisory or delivery experience in functions and capabilities across the Life Sciences value chain, such as Medical Affairs, Commercial, Global Health, R&D and Supply Chain
• Shaping and leading complex transformation programmes and engagements, for example systems implementation, programme delivery, operating model design and implementation, HCP engagement, patient centricity and omnichannel strategies
• Being a trusted advisor to Life Sciences leaders and providing strategic counsel on critical challenges and transformations
• Effectively managing and collaborating with senior client stakeholders
• Inclusively leading consulting teams, including blended delivery teams with clients
• An ability to lead and generate sales and business development opportunities (if from a consulting background)
• Demonstrable commercial awareness within a wider business context (if from industry background)
• A strong track record of building capability, coaching and upskilling colleagues, and scoping and delivering consulting solutions and services
• A passion for Life Sciences, for building and nurturing strong relationships, both with clients and colleagues

Benefits

What we can offer you at Moorhouse:

• A total cash package of up to £110,000 comprising of a base salary of £82,005 and a combination of personal and company bonuses that are paid every six months
• 25 days annual leave increasing by one day for every full year of service to a maximum of 30 days with the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave per year
• Life Assurance, Private Medical Insurance, Group Personal Pension Scheme and a range of discounted lifestyle and well-being benefits through Perkbox
• A culture where you will not need to compete with others because of promotion quotas or the typical distribution curves that govern performance management in other organisations. We recognise and reward performance consistently and transparently across the firm so that everyone knows where they stand.

Our offices are based near Liverpool Street in London, though we expect you to spend much of your time with clients at their offices. We support flexible and hybrid working.

We are committed to embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment - one where colleagues feel comfortable and can bring their whole selves to work.

We recognise the importance of reflecting both our clients and the society in which we live and work and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Moorhouse are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for this opportunity regardless of any diversity characteristic.

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