About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Our Pharma and Life Sciences practice are looking for an experienced Consultant or Senior Consultant to join the team.

Closing Date: Wednesday 21 October

Following exceptional year on year growth at Baringa, we are excited to continue building our Pharma and Life Sciences practice across Europe and the UK.

The Pharma and Life Sciences sector is undergoing rapid and transformational change. There has never been a more exciting time to work in this sector with endless opportunities to add value to the industry. Our clients are pivoting how they work as new technologies revolutionise every part of their value chain and the value they create for patients. This continues against a backdrop of rapidly rising development costs and external market access pressures. If you are excited about working alongside our clients to solve these problems, then we could be what you are looking for.

What you will be doing

We provide advisory services to our clients across the pharma value chain from R&D to commercialisation, using our industry expertise and consulting skills. We work with a variety of clients from the large established players to the rapidly growing industry disruptors. Example types of work include:

Developing strategies and operating models to transform ways of working across clinical development, medical affairs and commercial (at global and local levels)
Implementing change in global, x-functional organisations in a strategic and sustainable way
Developing and operating Centres of Excellence and Communities of Practice to cross-fertilise learnings and successes across countries and regions
Designing and implementing Quality Management Systems and the associated GCP / GVP processes
Optimising product development team ways of working in response to change, i.e., a new strategic direction, changing customer needs, evolving evidence requirements etc.
Supporting brand teams with launch strategies and operations
Developing omnichannel approaches and building the required capabilities for clients to achieve early post-launch impact in their customer engagements
Implementing next gen customer engagement ecosystems
Advising on data and AI enablement to realise strategy and drive efficiency, translating business and process needs into actionable digital strategy and end-to-end implementation
Advising on Patient Engagement strategies and operating models, considering how to measure impact and leverage patient experience data for insight
Creating best practice for strategic alliances to be successful whether that be for co-development or post-merger integration

Your skills and experience

Strong pharmaceutical and life sciences experience through working in management consulting with pharmaceutical and life science clients
A track record of taking ownership and delivering results in demanding client-facing environments
Strong entrepreneurial spirit to help us grow the sector
An ability to leverage AI to inform strategy, enable operating models and transform ways of working is highly desirable
In addition to management consulting experience with pharmaceutical and life science clients, you will have demonstrable consulting skills in one or more of the following:
- Life Sciences Clinical Development, Medical and / or Commercial functions (e.g. ClinOps, Stats, Regulatory, Safety, Quality, Medical Affairs, Sales, Marketing, Field)
- Transformation Programme Management
- Change Management
- Technology enabled process design
- Digital, data, analytics and artificial intelligence
- Strategy and Operating Model development

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.