Life Science Strategy Consultant (Medical Affairs)
Location: New York | Full-time
Join Executive Insight and help shape the future of healthcare.
About Executive Insight
Executive Insight is a specialized healthcare consultancy that partners with leading biopharmaceutical companies to prepare, launch, and commercialize their products successfully. With offices in New York, London & Zurich, we work as one integrated team across borders.
Our culture is built on honesty, freedom, and caring. We believe that while individual talent is essential, true excellence is achieved through collaboration, shared ideas, and intellectual curiosity. We foster a non-hierarchical, open environment where teamwork and trust drive impactful outcomes in the dynamic world of healthcare consulting.
About the Role
As a Life Sciences Strategy Consultant at Executive Insight, you will work on a variety of exciting projects with the particular focus for this role being on capability building, organisational transformation and functional excellence within medical affairs divisions of biopharmaceutical companies. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions that drive the commercialization of biopharmaceutical products and navigate the complexities of healthcare systems.
This position offers the opportunity to further deepen your expertise in healthcare strategy while supporting project delivery and providing meaningful insights that help our clients achieve their objectives. You'll receive guidance and feedback from Project Managers on your project work, while a dedicated Mentor will support your broader professional development at the company.
What You’ll Do
As a Life Sciences Strategy Consultant, you will:
- Support project teams in Translating complex or ambiguous business challenges of (pharma) medical affairs teams into deliverables that are tailored to client situation and context and aligned with senior client stakeholders.
- Support Project managers to define functional strategies, organisational change requirements and deliver transformation initiatives that align people, processes, and technology to achieve sustainable results.
- Assist in designing business cases, KPIs, and performance measurement frameworks to measure impact and sustain performance.
- Support with the design and delivery of change management programs, training, and organizational development initiatives that drive sustainable adoption and capability building.
- Help to nature long-term client relationships based on trust, transparency, and consistent value delivery.
This role will further expose consultants to business issues specific to our field enabling them to continuously develop in a specialized consulting environment working on projects addressing market access, medical affairs, health policy and commercial models.
What We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate for this Life Sciences Strategy Consultant role will have:
- A minimum of 3 years consulting experience at a strategy or management consultancy with experience in pharma/medical affairs being a strong preference
- Experience contributing to projects in one or more of the following areas:
-> Capability building: Critical assessment of organisational capabilities, defining future ready capabilities, outlining change requirements.
-> Business /Organisational Transformation: Organisational and operational model re-design, role & responsibility and governance definition, interaction models between global medical and key local markets. - Skills in the core strategy consulting competencies and approaches:
-> Structured problem solving - break down ambiguous client problems into hypothesis-driven workstreams and contributing your opinion actively to these problems.
-> Intellectual rigour - identify gaps in logic or evidence, and push thinking beyond surface level conclusions.
-> Executive Presence - comfortable presenting or contributing to presentations for C-minus-1 stakeholders (e.g., VP of Medical Affairs, Head of Commercial).
-> Change Navigation- Hands on experience in change management, developing stakeholder engagement plans and resonating corporate communication - Fluency in English, with proficiency in additional languages being a plus.
- Candidates must have full right to work in the US, as we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
Why Executive Insight?
At Executive Insight, we value diverse perspectives, deep expertise, and long-term client relationships. We are committed to delivering exceptional quality and fostering a supportive, high-performing team culture.
We know that our people are our greatest asset. That’s why we invest in a thoughtful recruitment process—to ensure the right fit for both you and us.
Please note: We are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies for this role.
Skills Required
- At least 3 years of consulting experience at a strategy or management consultancy
- Experience contributing to capability-building or organizational and business-transformation projects
- Structured problem-solving skills using hypothesis-driven workstreams
- Intellectual rigor and ability to assess logic and evidence
- Executive presence and comfort contributing to presentations for senior stakeholders
- Hands-on change-management experience, including stakeholder engagement and corporate communications
- Fluency in English
- Full right to work in the United States
- Pharmaceutical or medical affairs consulting experience
- Proficiency in additional languages
What We Do
We are a specialist healthcare consultancy that supports (bio)pharmaceutical companies to successfully prepare, launch, and commercialize their products. We design and implement customer-centric brand and market access strategies that go “beyond the pill”, deliver value to payers, prescribers and patients, and ultimately improve outcomes. For more than 20 years, our clients value the direct access to an experienced senior team, our specialized healthcare expertise and proven track record, and our highly collaborative way of working. Our mission at Executive Insight is to look beyond the status quo & push boundaries of current thinking to develop innovative solutions which contribute to sustainable healthcare systems around the world. Building the bridges for dialogue to enable impact on the lives of patients requires the perspectives & contributions of everyone. It is only by capturing diverse perspectives that we can achieve our objective of “Together we touch lives.” Our values of Caring, Honesty & Freedom guide our course toward achieving our objectives as well as our engagements with clients, employees, our communities, and the environment. These same values shape our approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We embrace the diversity of our clients and equally of our team. We are committed to building a team that reflects the world around us. Everyone at Executive Insight has the space to grow, develop, shape and create his/her own mark in the company, on projects and our communities together. The result of our diverse, equitable and inclusive hiring and development practices is a team made up of 21 nationalities. A leadership team consisting of 55% women. And a consulting organization where 30% of our female employees are mothers. Our impacts externally have extended from partnering with pharmaceutical access NGOs, carbon off-setting initiatives, as well as supporting war refugees with a mental health diagnosis toolkit as well as financial support
