Senior Consultant

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Senior Consultant/Engagement Manager UKI (based on experience)

Type of Contract: Permanent
Location: London, United Kingdom (Home Based)

Specialism: In-depth knowledge and Expertise on UK and Ireland policy, NHS and healthcare landscape, HTAs, NICE, etc.

About the Company

IQVIA () is the world's leading company providing information, technology, and services for virtually every type of stakeholder in healthcare. More than 10,000 customers around the world trust us to solve increasingly complex healthcare challenges. We are driven by our passion to solve customer problems, improve patient health, and make a positive impact on the world.

IQVIA is in an exciting phase of further developing the UKI business; continuing the transition from an established data provider to pharmaceutical clients, to partnering with them on providing end-to-end solutions that significantly add value, particularly regarding how we foster market activation to enable patient access to innovative treatments and technologies.

The UK&I Value and Access capabilities are centred on Market Access strategic advice aligned to field enablement, NHS data analysis tools, and real-world patient pathway analysis and service transformation to pharmaceutical, consumer health, and medical device companies.

Role Summary

UK&I Value & Access Consulting is a critical function within the Market Access and Patient Activation (MAPA) Business Unit, often acting as a 'spearhead' and first point of engagement with a client brand that develops into broader engagements involving departments across the IQVIA business. Core to the role is your ability to deeply understand the objectives of our clients and translate those into the delivery of outstanding consultancy outputs aligned to exceptional client service while building trusted relationships with new and existing clients that enhance the MAPA brand. Success will be measured by the ability to support the team Principals in new business development opportunities, work as a team on complex projects, while seeking to optimise how work is delivered as efficiently and effectively as possible. As a result, the role requires excellent interpersonal skills.

You will be responsible for contributing and/or leading the delivery of value and access consultancy projects and solutions, supported by our world-class proprietary data assets, which help to fuel the advancement of our UK-based pharmaceutical and healthcare clients.

Key Accountabilities:

• Work closely with our clients on a daily basis to understand their challenges, requirements, and market access issues.
• Be a key contributor to proposals for potential solutions; liaising closely with senior colleagues across multiple organisational groups, particularly our business development and key account community to help in the identification and conversion of new business.
• Apply project management experience and leadership to structure project approaches, react to changing timelines and requirements, and deliver on commitments to time and to budget.
• Design and structure impactful project reports, workshops, and presentations that are tailored to the needs of the audience.
• Proactively broaden knowledge of consulting methodologies and the health and life sciences industries through the delivery of consulting engagements and participation in formal and informal learning opportunities.
• Contribute to the enhanced awareness of IQVIA in the marketplace, e.g., through speaking engagements, client meetings, publications, etc.
• Take responsibility for personally directly driving new business.
• Comply with all relevant IQVIA policies, processes, and procedures, and maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all information held, processed, or communicated by IQVIA, in line with those policies, processes, and procedures.

Education, Skills, and Experience Required

• Deep understanding of our Life Science clients' business and how this aligns with an ever-evolving NHS.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of the local market access environment (UK and Ireland policy, NHS/healthcare landscape, HTAs, NICE, NIHR, etc.).
• Commercial Awareness and Ownership - Considers flow of money and resources through an organisation, and the need to get maximum value at each stage. Seeks to achieve commercial objectives, such as profitability, so the business can be as competitive and successful as possible.
• Analytical Problem-Solving; applies an analytical approach to solving problems and reaching logical conclusions. Gathers information from a variety of sources and quickly gains an understanding of it. Works effectively with complicated, conflicting, or ambiguous information, and looks beyond the surface of issues to identify their underlying patterns and causes.
• A mix of experience across relevant domains; services, consulting, NHS commissioning, or pharma/CRO.
• Management and mentoring experience - enables others to perform. Sets a clear direction and delegates fairly and appropriately, allowing others the means to achieve their goals. Looks for opportunities to develop individuals by encouraging them to take on greater responsibility and make decisions for themselves.
• Innovation - turns creative ideas into original solutions. Produces new or different approaches in current situations and enables creativity in others. Involved in generating ideas and seeing them through to implementation.
• Highly numerate with strong analytical skills and a strong attention to detail.
• Able to support the execution of multiple complex projects at once within a team environment, to tight deadlines.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written) strong communication skills using all mediums.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at