Strategy & Pharma Life Sciences – Strategy – Senior Manager, PwC UK
As a senior manager in Strategy&’s Pharma Life Sciences group, you are a leading thought‑partner to clients, solving problems and running the day‑to‑day activities of client engagements. You will engage in client engagement through problem solving, building client relationships and managing the personal development of the team. Working with consultants from across our global offices, you will have the opportunity to interact with leading international clients across the PLS industry.
On projects, you are the point‑of‑contact for client stakeholders and manage daily activities of the team to deliver project milestones. Typical daily activities include structuring client problems, story‑boarding project approaches and coordinating multiple workstreams. You will be supported by a Director and Partner, while providing direction for the Managers, Senior Associates and Associates on your team.
Outside of engagements, managers are mentors within the firm, acting as people‑managers and coaches for other Strategy& consultants. Engaging with the Strategy& and Pharma community is key to growing our firm; participating in thought leadership and building new initiatives based on personal interests are some of the many ways Strategy& members continue to develop the business.
Strategy& offers in‑depth training across all consulting levels and will support your development throughout your career. Using a combination of formal training programs and on‑the‑job feedback learning, our consultants combine core analytical thinking with hypothesis‑driven approaches to deliver tangible client deliverables.
As a part of Strategy&, you will support clients in developing their capabilities across functions, whether it is strategy development, capabilities assessment or transforming the way the company works within the pharmaceutical industry. This is an exciting time for the industry and for Strategy& as we help pharmaceutical companies transform their business models.
Skills
- Support senior leadership in managing client engagements from strategy development to end‑to‑end deliverable creation
- Use analytical, hypothesis‑driven thinking to form and shape solutions to unstructured client problems
- Communicate effectively to clients and internal stakeholders through verbal and written presentations
- Manage and support teams of 2‑5 junior members with a high level of independence
- Engage with the greater Strategy& and Pharma community to develop firm presence
Responsibilities
- Run a project or workstream, acting as the main day‑to‑day contact for clients, presenting content, fielding questions and developing solutions to problems
- Framework projects, including storyboarding and structuring engagement deliverables using a goal‑oriented approach
- Manage the development and functioning of the project team, providing guidance and coaching to other members
- Develop competencies of junior consultants while managing the team workload and welfare
- Communicate within the team structure, escalating issues timely and appropriately
- Track project budgets and client billing accurately and on time
- Support senior management with project proposals and developing new business opportunities
- Participate, as needed, with recruitment and act as a people manager to 1 or more Associates
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
Industries
Accounting
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