R&D Managing Consultant at PA Consulting Group in Boston, Massachusetts

Job Description:

Become part of the team

Our team enables our clients to accelerate R&D timelines through better use of data, analytics, and AI. This will heavily focus on the use of data to make better decisions, increase effectiveness and to automate research, clinical, pharmacovigilance, and Regulatory processes. Our consultants have insight into the issues faced by clinical R&D functions and the experience to help our clients drive innovative approaches to clinical trial design and delivery.

We are looking for an R&D Managing Consultant to join the team at a time of exciting growth for both the Life Sciences team and the company.

As a Managing Consultant, you will be part of our leadership team, taking new service propositions to the market as well as developing new business and strong client relationships whilst leading and delivering great work.

At PA, we take a pragmatic view to solving client problems. Our Managing Consultants are not constrained by a narrow role description and take a hands-on, "roll up your sleeves" approach to do what is necessary to meet the client needs. You should have a track record of successful project delivery working within a major professional services consulting firm however other backgrounds will be considered.

What we're looking for

• Active involvement in account management with client organisations


• Works as an assignment manager on complex/ large projects


• Responsible for initiating and leading sales and other business development activities


• Line management and people development responsibilities


• Sells and operates across national boundaries bringing in PA people and/or services outside their own field of expertise.


• Developing insightful thought leadership and helping to shape industry thinking
  Strong consulting skills, including a high degree of communication and presentation skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects concurrently


• Promotes a diverse and inclusive culture


• Commercial acumen to understand requirements and formulate realistic and robust solutions while appreciating and managing risk appropriately


• Ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues and maintaining such a network to ensure that all opportunities are developed carefully


• Actively supporting the recruitment and development of team capabilities and talent


• Demonstrated ability to lead project teams (up to 10 people) and leading multiple projects concurrently


• Exceptional interpersonal, networking, collaboration, communication skills, and cultural awareness


• Ability to influence outcomes and communicate complex topics to a variety of audiences.


• R&D experience - either through consulting or industry, specifically within the Pharmaceutical sector


• Proven capability to win business within the Life Sciences Sector with a strong network with at least 1- 2 pharma companies

Qualifications

• Degree-level education, in science, pharmaceutical or medical technology related field, Masters/ MBA or PhD is a plus


• Expertise and credibility in one or more R&D domains (clinical development, safety/PV, drug development, etc.)

Benefits

PA provides an attractive benefits package

About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world. As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 3,200 specialists in consumer, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, manufacturing, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists. We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Europe, and the Nordics.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
PA agreed to a private equity-style investment with Jacobs in March 2021, a global technical and professional services leader that is "Challenging today, Reinventing tomorrow". PA and Jacobs have shared values that are based on always doing the right thing for our people, planet and clients; a strong purpose; a desire to make the world a better place; and a drive to help innovative organisations go further, faster.

The relationship with Jacobs will allow PA people to maintain ownership in our business, to act with the care of owners and to benefit from the value that we deliver. More than two-thirds of our people own shares in PA. And it will create new opportunities for our people to build their careers and do impactful work.
The investment from Jacobs sees The Carlyle Group exit their investment in PA after a successful five-year partnership. Together, we've built strong foundations that will let us continue to provide exciting new opportunities for our people and clients, and over the next five years grow our firm to more than 1 billion.

Since our founding in 1943, the story of PA has been one of ingenuity - ingenious work that grows businesses, delights customers, serves citizens and improves the health of the planet. As we turn the page with Jacobs, I'm excited by the opportunity to create new, and even better stories in the years ahead.

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skillsets. This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment - one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results. We're committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA's goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.
We welcome international applications, but we are unable to offer sponsorship for work permits, so you will need to have the full right to live and work in the UK. Unfortunately, your application will be automatically rejected if you do not have these rights.
Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com

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