UKI Business Consulting – Life Sciences, Senior Manager Commercial Strategy and Market Access and/or R&D Medical

General Information

Location: Ireland

Available for Visa Sponsorship: Yes

Business Area: Business Consulting

Contract Type: Full-Time – Permanent

The opportunity

Life Sciences is a rapidly growing sector in EY Ireland. Within this area, we are building significant Life Sciences Commercial, Market Access, R&D Medical capability, with an ambition to become the leading Life Sciences Strategy practice in Ireland.

We intend to focus these roles along the whole Life Sciences R&D Medical, Commercial and Market Access value chain with a strong portfolio of offerings for Pharmaceutical/Biotech/Med Tech organisations. The role will operate as part of the wider Health Sciences & Wellness team as well as holding the specific accountabilities set out below.

Joining the Life Sciences team as a Senior Manager gives the right candidate the opportunity to accelerate their career in Life Sciences business consulting and shape how EY takes the Life Science business forward, lead innovation in the pharmaceutical / biotech / medtech sector and generate ideas leading to significant changes within and across health systems currently facing major affordability and health care delivery challenges. The nature of the role demands a hybrid skill set that combines life sciences strategy, qualitative and quantitative rigour to problem solving, with strong creative intuition and a growth can-do mindset.

Your key responsibilities

• Senior Managers inspire and lead multiple clients and project teams, ensuring the understanding of main challenges across the commercial value chain and the delivery of high-quality insights by applying critical thinking

• Supervise and oversee the day-to-day work of multiple teams and work with the Life Sceinces Practice Directors / Partners to ensure the quality of output across projects

• Engagements will involve working with clients to resolve their most pressing challenges in franchise/portfolio/disease strategy and asset positioning; business development, medical strategy, launch excellence. market access, pricing and reimbursement strategies; and delivering innovative health care solutions to improve patient care pathways

• Increasingly strategic engagements will recommend implementation of a technology platform, digital/ai solution or business transformation to support biopharmaceutical cleints to bring the latest high value therapeutic innovations to patients across the globe

• Build and foster trusted relationships with new and existing clients, targeting key clients’ roles

• Identify and act on opportunities within projects and across the client organisation and work with client’s and internal teams to secure, on-sell, and contribute to new business proposals, pitches and business growth as required

• Lead new business proposals, including scoping project, defining the approach, writing proposals and scoping resource requirements

• Support the Practice Directors / Partners in recruitment and the allocation of resource to each project

• Develop and deliver specialist training to embed EY methodologies, both within the team and externally

• Contribute to practice thought leadership through writing and speaking engagements

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A minimum of 5 years work experience gained in a combination of a traditional management consulting environment and/or a Global Pharmaceutical / Biotech or Med Tech organisation

• Experience in leading, defining and implementing innovative strategies in one of the core areas: R&D, Medical, Commercial Strategy; Pricing, Reimbursement and Market Access; Digital Therapeutics; Real World Evidence; Innovative Contracting; New Product Planning and Business Development & Licensing

• High level of comfort in a consulting role and experience with a client-facing position in an agency/consulting environment, including leading client workshops and developing and delivering strategic recommendations

• Experience working in global multidisciplinary teams and across regions/countries.

• Experience in a thought leadership role, demonstrated through writing (blog, white paper, etc.) and/or speaking engagements

Ideally, you will also have

• Preferably hold an MBA or Advanced Degree in Health Economics, Health Policy and/or Pharmaceutical Sciences (preferred but not mandatory)

• Ability to write to a high standard, fluent/native in English with additional major languages desired

• A willingness to travel and work overseas