Senior Manager - Healthcare & Life Sciences - Pharma​/Biotech

Job Overview

As a Senior Manager at Simon-Kucher, you will be a critical member of our Healthcare & Life Sciences, Pharma consulting team in North America.

• Lead and manage the delivery of client projects while elevating analysis and insights, infusing client‑centric depth into deliverables.
• Drive project planning and execution, ensuring alignment of delivery to client needs and objectives and managing an efficient project timeline.
• Lead and guide a large, talented team of junior consultants to develop innovative, actionable insights and recommendations using data, analytics, and research.
• Develop trusted, credible senior‑level advisory relationships by delivering high‑quality, tailored recommendations our clients can execute to realize benefits.
• Effectively engage a senior client audience at all stages of their commercial growth strategy, understanding their needs, obtaining buy‑in for recommendations, deliverables, and solutions.
• Expand and develop new capabilities, tactics, and tools that advance client business goals.
• Identify and engage prospective clients to understand their priorities and challenges where Simon‑Kucher can support and grow our footprint.
• Provide exceptional client service and communication, even during challenging, unexpected situations.
• Prepare client‑ready deliverables and independently present findings and recommendations to a senior client audience, incorporating feedback.
• Manage multiple projects and teams concurrently, developing team members through coaching, training, and feedback.
• Lead project teams to desired end‑goals by defining roles and responsibilities, demonstrating strong project management, and serving as primary contact for client teams.
• Create project work‑plans and guide the team through activities, including oversight of primary/secondary research and qualitative/quantitative analysis.
• Oversee work and outputs of team members across projects of varying scales, providing timely feedback to balance timeline and quality.
• Contribute to practice priorities, develop new insights, and pursue new business opportunities, including proposal development and client pitches.
• Develop and deliver thought leadership in collaboration with Pharma practice peers and seniors.
• Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to clients.
• Analyze existing processes and tools, recommending opportunities for continued improvement.
• Coach and develop consultants and serve as a Career Development Advisor for junior team members.
• Demonstrate empathy and emotional intelligence when managing conflict or communicating change.
• Play an integral role in recruitment and integration of new Healthcare & Life Sciences, Pharma consultants.
• Contribute to Simon‑Kucher’s culture and success as a firm‑wide leader.

• Outstanding drive, determination, and desire to be part of a top‑tier consulting firm.
• Strong knowledge of the Healthcare & Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals sector, and ability to be an industry thought leader.
• An undergraduate degree.
• Minimum 6+ years of experience in a professional services environment, ideally in management consulting serving Healthcare & Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical industry.
• Proven business consulting expertise in growth strategies, go‑to‑market strategy, segmentation, product and portfolio design, pricing, marketing, value‑proposition development, distribution strategy (omni‑channel management, digitization, channel orchestration), sales strategies, and monetization strategies.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to distill insights and explain impact on client processes from large data sets.
• Effective presentation and communication skills to present findings, takeaways, and key recommendations to senior audiences.
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