Associate Consultant

Associate Consultant/Senior Associate Consultant

The Senior Associate Consultant will have a thorough understanding of the healthcare industry and its dynamics, and the associated evolving needs and challenges of biopharma clients, with a focus on Medical Affairs. In this position, you will work with senior Consultants within MEDiSTRAVA Consulting to design, develop and deliver tailored solutions to help clients navigate changing internal and external environments and expectations, and achieve their goals, whether this is at an organisational, portfolio or individual product level. In addition, the role will involve collaboration with the wider MEDiSTRAVA team and with teams across Inizio on both new business development opportunities and strategic client accounts. The role will also offer opportunities for engagement with industry-leading bodies, such as the Medical Affairs Professional Society, to raise the profile of our organisation and build relationships across the biopharma community.

Core duties:

• Support the delivery of a diverse range of projects to a high standard, reflecting client priorities and timelines

• Provide input into the design of strategic or tactical approaches, based on an understanding of the client situation and need, as part of the core client team

• Build trusted relationships across client and internal Inizio teams

• Further develop an understanding of the evolving needs of biopharma clients, and the differences across different organisational types, e.g. emerging biotech vs big pharma

• Proactively support new business development activities

• Actively engage and help drive strategic account planning and opportunities for organic growth across MEDiSTRAVA

KEY COMPETENCIES:

Excellence in solution design and implementation

• Demonstrates knowledge of healthcare system and role of medical affairs teams within pharmaceutical and biotech companies

• Appreciates differences in medical affairs organisational structures and requirements dependent on company archetypes

• Understands how our services and recommendations address client challenges

• Ability to partner with clients and / or external experts to assimilate and strategically apply insights, implement solutions and support change management to achieve overarching goals

• Comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of drug development and bio statistics, pharmaceutical codes of practice and client MLR approval

• Supports delivery of consulting projects from kick-off to reconciliation, ensuring delivery to time and on-budget following appropriate financial SOPs

• Actively participates in new business response development

Champion for client needs and excellence in delivery

• Shows an interest in and begins to understand medical affairs and pharma organisational needs and strategies in the context of our business

• Demonstrates strong project management skills and the ability to meet deadlines, set timescales and prioritise

• Understands the scope of work and the deliverables expected from each stage of the project

• Takes responsibility and personal pride for work

Teamwork and collaboration

• Willingness to effectively collaborate with the team to achieve common goals

• Engenders team spirit, trust, respect and take collective responsibility for team successes and areas for improvement

• Ability to take and provide transparent and honest feedback, and respect the views of others

• Demonstrates verbal, non-verbal and active-listening skills to both problem-solve and help build relationships

• Capacity for multi-tasking, paired with a willingness to pitch-in and help with tasks across the business as required