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Job Title:
Principal Consultant
Reference:
1625
Business Type:
Healthcare/Management Consultancy
Salary:
Negotiable
Location:
Cambridgeshire
Job Background:
This consultancy offers their clients a unique blend of business consulting skills and communications expertise. They provide a wide range of support services to the healthcare industry; from high-end strategic thinking and research through to internal and external communications’. Practice offerings include: • market insights and strategy
• process design and communications
• integrated communications
• risk management and regulatory Staff are drawn from a diverse range of technical and marketing disciplines, cultures and companies. Each member is valued for their broad experience and international exposure. Growth in European business means our client is looking for an experienced senior professional to join the company as a principal consultant within the risk management and regulatory practice which offers services to pharmaceutical companies including:
- Safety Specification and Risk Assessment – Pharmacovigilance planning – Risk minimisation planning and tool development – Patient and Prescriber Support Programmes and Appropriate Use Programmes.
Job Duties:
• Define, document and deliver work programmes: - explain/present the company’s purpose and capabilities to potential and existing clients - negotiate business with clients and write discussion documents and proposals - scope, plan and lead major, multi-component work programmes - monitor resource, budget and delivery requirements - liaise with Practice Head and Operations Director re personal and team workloads, programme status, resource requirements, costings and budgets - liaise with Finance Director re programme costings and budgets, and client invoicing. • Client account development:
- maximise new work opportunities (programme development and new leads)
- lead and contribute to sales activities. • Practice development:
- work with the Practice Head to provide thought leadership and innovative practice offerings
- represent Practice on relevant industry bodies or present at conferences.
• Team management and development
- delivery team management (resource utilisation including collaboration with other practices)
- working with the Practice Head, identify and support training and development needs of team members. Key Competencies: • Analytical & authorship/editorial skills: ability to analyse and interpret clinical data; research and write structured reports and regulatory documents; write to different styles, audiences and vehicles; edit others work.
• Consulting skills: ability to reduce complex information into simple, actionable frameworks; ability to innovate and develop new solutions
• Organisational skills: ability to prioritise own and team workloads; work to deadlines and under pressure.
• Communication and interpersonal skills: ability to work in multiple teams or alone; communicate with people at all levels, negotiate and lead; present and deliver with clarity and confidence.
• Motivational skills: ability to develop people/teams, setting goals/focusing on achievements.
• Computer literacy: ability to use Microsoft Office suite. Role Development: • Individual responsibility for identifying training and development needs.
• Development of advanced consulting or account management skills/Deputise for Practice Head
• Development of new service offerings, including use of Associates/sourcing new Associates.
Job Qualifications:
• MD or PhD (or equivalent) plus experience in Regulatory/Drug Safety/Risk Management in the pharmaceutical industry/CRO. • Commercial acumen gained through a consultancy or agency environment with experience of providing support to commercial sector clients in the pharmaceutical industry. • Demonstrable record of project delivery, accurate work, business development and new service offering development. • Ability to be perceived as a thought leader/ respected at senior level by client in the Risk arena • Experience at authoring a range of regulatory documents e.g. PSUR/Label/Risk Management Plan/Annual safety reports/Protocols • Clinical and epidemiology knowledge • Coaching and training ability and experience Desirable
• First hand experience of FDA/EMEA meetings
• Publication record in Regulatory/Drug Safety/Risk Management
• Specific qualifications in Pharmaceutical Medicine e.g. MSc, Dip Pharm Med
Additional Information:
Skillframe offers you one-to-one consultation and career counsel to help you fulfil your short and longer-term aspirations. For your prescription to a brighter future please contact us on 020 8941 8090
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