Consulting Manager – Capability Building / Business Transformation / Functional Excellence
Location: London
Employment Type: Full time
About Executive Insight
Executive Insight is a specialised healthcare consultancy that partners with leading biopharmaceutical companies to prepare, launch, and commercialise their products successfully. With offices in London, Zurich, and New York, we work as one integrated team across borders. Our culture is built on honesty, freedom, and caring. We believe that while individual talent is essential, true excellence is achieved through collaboration, shared ideas, and intellectual curiosity. We foster a non-hierarchical, open environment where teamwork and trust drive impactful outcomes in the dynamic world of healthcare consulting.
About the Role
As a Manager at Executive Insight, you are responsible for driving an engagement from the outset to its completion to the client’s satisfaction and according to internal quality and profitability standards. Your role is to define objectives, scope, deliverables, approach, and plan for any given engagement. Managers build the team, guide, and coach consultants, solve issues, and anticipate pitfalls in active collaboration with the Engagement Lead on the project.
Responsibilities
- Act as the day‑time manager for a portfolio of consulting projects with full responsibility for project delivery, team and project resource management, client relationships and upwards management with senior leaders.
- Actively develop juniors on the project in general consulting skills and project related content and functional knowledge.
- Contribute to business development by identifying and scoping out new projects, preparing proposals and participating in sales pitches.
- Support people‑related and company internal activities such as recruitment, mentoring, support our service offering and more.
- Manage up to 3 or more projects simultaneously, depending on size and complexity.
Specific Role Focus
- Translate complex or ambiguous business challenges of pharma medical affairs and market access teams into deliverables that are tailored to client situation and context and aligned with senior client stakeholders.
- Collaborate with client executives to define functional strategies, organisational change requirements and deliver transformation initiatives that align people, processes, and technology to achieve sustainable results.
- Develop business cases, KPIs, and performance measurement frameworks to measure impact and sustain performance.
- Design and deliver change management programs, training, and organisational development initiatives that drive sustainable adoption and capability building.
- Build and nurture long‑term client relationships based on trust, transparency, and consistent value delivery.
What We’re Looking For
- A minimum of 6 years’ consulting experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry, ideally with in‑depth Medical Affairs expertise.
- Strong experience in overseeing projects in one or more of the following areas:
- Capability building: Critical assessment of organisational capabilities, defining future‑ready capabilities, outlining change requirements.
- Business / Organisational Transformation: Organisational and operational model re‑design, role & responsibility and governance definition, interaction model between global medical and key local markets.
- Leadership – proven experience as the primary client contact, with the ability to align stakeholders, managing leadership steering committees, reaching organisational buy‑in and communicate effectively across diverse audiences.
- Managed portfolio of 3+ projects and led teams of 3+ consultants.
- Strong expertise in core strategy consulting competencies and approaches: Structured problem solving – break down ambiguous client problems into hypothesis‑driven workstreams; Executive Presence – comfortable presenting to C‑minus‑1 stakeholders; Change Navigation – Hands on experience in change management, developing stakeholder engagement plans and resonating corporate communication.
- Fluency in English, with proficiency in additional languages being a plus.
- Full right to work in the UK; we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
Why Executive Insight?
We value diverse perspectives, deep expertise, and long‑term client relationships. We are committed to delivering exceptional quality and fostering a supportive, high‑performing team culture. We invest in a thoughtful recruitment process to ensure the right fit for both you and us.
Please note: We are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies for this role.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales
Industries
Business Consulting and Services
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