Manager​/Associate Principal, Medical Affairs

Manager / Associate Principal, Medical Affairs

Blue Matter is a rapidly growing management consultancy focused primarily in the biopharmaceutical industry. We partner with our clients to help them achieve commercial success across the lifecycle of their products, portfolios, and organizations. Our project types include new product planning, launch strategy, portfolio / disease area strategy, and organizational strategy / change management. The majority of our work is in specialty therapeutics, with oncology and rare diseases a specific area of expertise.

We have a unique entrepreneurial culture and invest in building Blue Matter as the best place to work for our consultants. We have offices in NY, San Francisco, Boston, London, Zurich and Mumbai. We apply scientific rigor in order to help our clients improve patient outcomes. This entrepreneurial team works regionally and globally throughout the enterprise to diagnose critical business issues and deliver evidence-based solutions.

Medical Affairs is evolving, and Blue Matter stands at the forefront of this transformation. Driven by strategic thinking, innovative technology, and deep subject matter expertise, the team remains passionate about improving healthcare performance. The culture is built on excellence, collaboration and an entrepreneurial spirit. Our work can be complex and difficult so we require people who can innovate with their practice as well as their solutions.

If you have the right levels of intellectual curiosity and a passion to discover the real impact of medicines in the real world, then you’ll fit right in. As an Associate Principal in the Medical Affairs Team, you will join a dynamic, well-established team responsible for strengthening the Blue Matter business in New York.

• Planning, organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives
• Leading teams to execute strategic thinking, high quality research and analysis
• Designing, structuring and delivering client reports and presentations
• Developing client relationships through face-to-face discussions, workshops, telephone and email contact
• Providing expert guidance on key Medical Affairs domains such as planning, stakeholder engagement, insights gathering and communications
• Driving Medical Affairs strategies that align with broader commercialization goals, ensuring that scientific value propositions are robust, market-relevant, and optimized for the entire product lifecycle
• Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) tools to execute projects with greater efficiency
• Advising on Real-World Evidence (RWE) and the Real-World Data (RWD) tactics and landscape to progress study concepts
• Leading the development of proposals for new projects / commercial opportunities in partnership with Principals and/or Partners
• Taking an active role in business development, building client relationships and identifying new business opportunities with clients
• Leading quality assurance efforts for all projects within scope – in particular for client analytical work
• Administrating control of the fees and expenses during projects (travel, meetings, organizing invoicing with finance, etc.
• Developing broader and deeper knowledge of consulting methodologies and the pharmaceutical market through on the job exposure and formal training
• Coaching project team members and supporting them to fulfil their personal objectives
• Acting as a formal coach / mentor for up to 3 junior team members on an ongoing basis (i.e. not just in projects)

An Associate Principal will usually be staffed on 2-3 projects in parallel ensuring a broad exposure to the wide range of activities that the practice…