Senior Commercial Strategist

About the Position

We are looking for a Senior Commercial Strategist to lead work streams and deliver high‑quality outputs across Commercial Strategy engagements and new business pitches. Working with Commercial and Global Strategy Team leadership, this role transforms complex scientific, clinical, and market information into clear strategic implications and client‑ready outputs. It also ensures strong delivery excellence, taking end‑to‑end ownership of assigned project components.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading core Commercial Strategy work streams such as unmet need and market assessment, competitive foresight, secondary research and insight synthesis, primary research (interviews, advisory boards, workshops), strategic scientific narrative and value architecture, evidence generation, differentiation, and market readiness/activation planning.
• Building and maintaining strong client relationships, supporting proposals, and identifying organic growth opportunities.
• Providing end‑to‑end ownership of project components, ensuring delivery excellence and high client‑ready standards.

This role is based in our London office with close collaboration across our core hubs and strategic disciplines.

• Strong analytical capability with increasing independence; comfortable working with complex scientific/clinical and market information in a commercialization context.
• Ability to independently synthesize complexity into clear insights, implications, and well‑structured, client‑ready content.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to craft compelling, well‑structured presentations and documents with minimal guidance.
• Strong workstream leadership; able to plan, coordinate, and drive delivery across assigned project components.
• Proactive support and guidance for junior team members on research tasks and project logistics.
• Professionalism in client communication and external stakeholder interactions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).

• 3–5 years’ experience in healthcare strategy/consulting, pharma/biotech, medical communications, clinical research, or scientific academia.
• Demonstrated experience independently producing high‑quality research outputs and translating findings into clear, actionable strategic recommendations.
• Exposure to multi‑stakeholder healthcare environments (clinicians, patients, payers, advocates, policymakers).
• Experience supporting or co‑leading primary research activities (interviews, advisory boards, workshops), including material development and synthesis.
• Contribution to new business/proposals (pitch research, development of sections).

• Good understanding of core commercialization concepts (competitive landscape, positioning/differentiation, evidence needs, stakeholder decision drivers) and how they connect across an asset lifecycle.
• Ability to apply an adoption/value lens – connecting evidence, stakeholder needs, and market context to implications for uptake and differentiation.
• Growing awareness of how asset‑level work ladders into broader franchise/portfolio/category context and ecosystem dynamics.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to work with ambiguity; applies structured thinking (hypotheses, frameworks, story lining) to build coherent strategic outputs.
• Strong attention to detail (data accuracy, referencing, and consistency) and high‑quality control standards.
• Comfortable leveraging technology (including AI) to improve efficiency and rigor, with appropriate validation.

• Proactive, curious, and intellectually ambitious.
• Takes ownership and drives work forward with minimal prompting.
• High standards for quality and clarity; applies and shares feedback constructively.
• Collaborative team player who supports junior colleagues.
• Flexible and resilient in a fast‑moving environment.

• Degree‑level qualification (Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Medicine, Public Health, or similar). Advanced degree is a plus but not required.