Senior Consultant

Cambridge Healthcare Research

Senior Consultant leading high-value projects and business development for life sciences consulting firm. Driving client engagement and team leadership in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Project leadership – Leading on and successfully delivering our larger, more complex and higher-value projects, ensuring they are delivered to plan and provide value for clients.
Engagement leadership – Reassuring and satisfying clients as a trusted partner across a portfolio of projects and range of proposition and therapeutic areas by ensuring these are designed to address strategic and complex business issues and deliver quality and profitable solutions with an exceptional client experience.
Delivering excellence – Planning, designing and expertly facilitating complex workshops, providing clear strategic recommendations to clients.
Leading others – Independently lead, manage and develop consulting colleagues through effective communication and feedback, supporting personalised development to foster innovation and diverse thinking that adds value for our clients whilst building capabilities and behaviours that enable our people to realise their potential.
Business development – Developing a deep understanding of existing accounts to identify catalytic events at company and product level that could generate new opportunities and proactively pursuing leads to grow the account. Proactively win new business through maintaining relationships with existing and former clients and developing new client contacts, securing requests for proposals, and leading on proposals and pitches.
External engagement – Promoting Solici to enhance our strategic decision making and competitive positioning through writing blog articles and attending key events [e.g. conferences], developing professional networks, interacting with a variety of external stakeholders [e.g. clients, experts etc.] and articulating how Solici services and propositions can meet their needs.
Internal engagement – Contributing and supporting internal improvement initiatives to increase the efficiency and delivery rate and profitability of projects and shape Solici and CHR for the future.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You will have an advanced [Masters or PhD] degree with experience in one of the following; Oncology, Immunology, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic diseases [CVRM], Rare diseases.
You will be an experienced life sciences consultant with a proven record of successfully managing profitable projects that deliver value for clients, engaging with existing and prospective clients to understand their needs and win new business, leading and developing others to deliver high quality outputs, and utilising industry expertise and acquired knowledge to develop impactful and commercially relevant solutions for clients. You will have typically developed this over a career of at least five years within life sciences consulting but demonstrable capability and achievements are of greater importance to us than tenure.
You will balance your scientific background with strong commercial astuteness to achieve revenue and profitability targets, have high levels of emotional intelligence to develop effective relationships with clients and colleagues and a growth mindset to thrive in a complex and ever-changing environment.
You will be energised by driving innovation and improvement projects that align with CHR’s strategic and cultural goals, and skilled in leading your team through change programmes.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Base salary depending on prior experience
Annual bonus
25 days holiday per year (with an additional day per year of service, up to 30 days) plus all bank/public holidays and Christmas/New Year closure
Private Healthcare and Life Assurance
Contributory Pension Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Mind & Body allowance to support activities that proactively support your health & wellbeing (such as gym membership or wellbeing apps)
A collaborative and stimulating leadership environment
An opportunity to make and influence decisions that will drive CHR forward

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementconsultingstrategic planningworkshop facilitationbusiness developmentproposal writingclient engagementdata analysislife sciences expertisecommercial strategy

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationemotional intelligenceinnovationrelationship buildingteam developmentproblem solvingadaptabilitycollaborationclient satisfaction

Certifications

Masters degreePhD