Engagement Manager; Medical Strategy

Prescient is a specialist global consultancy focused exclusively on the biopharmaceutical industry. Following the recent acquisitions of Uptake and Dolon, Prescient now operates across four core practices:
Commercial, Medical, Competitive Strategy and Value, Pricing & Access. Together, we deliver best-in-class intelligence,evidence and strategic consulting to leading biopharma organizations worldwide.

Our work supports clients across the full product lifecycle,from early pipeline through post-launch,deliveringtimelyinsights and strategic recommendations that enable informed decision-making across commercial, medical, competitive intelligence, evidence generation and market access function.

Within our Medical practice, we deliver integrated solutions across three core pillars
- Medical Strategy & Planning, Evidence Generation Strategy, and Organizational Excellence - enabling clients to strengthen medical impact, accelerate decision-making and build future-ready medical organizations. Increasingly, our differentiation comes from pairing genuine scientific and technical depth with strategic medical affairs judgement.

As an Engagement Manager, you will lead the delivery of strategic medical affairs engagements while driving business growth and developing the teams around you. This role spans our three core pillars, medical strategy and planning, evidence generation and organizational excellence and calls for a consultant who has the medical affairs understanding to put that evidence to strategic use.

Our clients, medical affairs leaders at leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies, increasingly expect partners who can do more than synthesise their thinking. They want technical depth they can trust, fluency in how medical affairs operates, challenge to their assumptions, and clear answers to “so what” and “now what.” You will be central to meeting that expectation, with a primary client base in the U.S. and a global perspective on medical strategy, evidence generation, and drug development.

You will lead engagements end to end; scoping the approach, directing the work and owning the quality and strategic relevance of what we deliver. You will help clients address challenges across medical planning and strategy, integrated evidence generation, launch readiness, field medical optimization and operating-model design.

• Lead client engagements end to end across medical strategy, evidence generation and organizational excellence. You will oversee research, analysis and the design of deliverables such as strategic and medical plans, evidence roadmaps, operating models and client workshops.
• Ground the work in medical affairs strategy. Connect evidence and analysis to clients’ medical objectives evidence-generation planning, scientific communication, field medical and launch, demonstrating a clear understanding of how medical affairs creates value.
• Own the “so what” and “now what.” Translate complex evidence and analysis into clear strategic implications and recommended actions; pressure-test interpretations and bring perspectives on what clients should do differently.
• Identify and pursue new business within existing and new clients; develop proposals, scope and cost engagements accurately and position the practice competitively at the executive level.
• Manage, mentor, and develop direct reports and project teams, setting clear expectations, building both technical and strategic capability, and reducing variability in how the team delivers.
• Manage work streams and stakeholders, ensuring coordination, efficient communication and timely delivery against a high standard of quality.
• Contribute to the evolution of the practice by helping shape new…