Manager & Senior Manager in Life Sciences Quality Management Consulting

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Operations Strategy

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

A career within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

Manager / Senior Manager in Life Sciences Quality Management Consulting

We in PwC are passionate to help our clients to move towards what we call a “patient-centric” quality approach: We believe that Quality is the lifeblood of a Life Science organization. It is the root of the business, not just there for compliance but to support the growth and healthiness of the whole organisation. To grow effectively and manage the network of cross-functional, branching processes well, you need not only connected technology systems but also a Quality culture. Quality is a living breathing part of the organisation, tended by trained and passionate staff throughout the business, driving operational excellence with the ultimate goal to benefit the patient. Only when you have all these components in place will Life Science organizations bear fruit in the current, challenging, market environment.

What you can expect from us. 

• You will help sell, lead and, together with the team, deliver high-impact projects engaging with senior stakeholders from high-profile clients in the life sciences industry.
• You will help develop new ideas and propositions to share with clients to secure new and expand existing projects. Projects typically include the design and implementation of new technologies, quality systems processes, operating models, digital strategies and ways of working across R&D, manufacturing / supply chain and commercial. This includes driving business performance through changing quality culture / mind-sets, improving processes and procedures, benefitting from process automation and enabling insights from advanced analytics and AI. The outcomes we help clients deliver include driving faster development, manufacturing and commercial timelines, exploiting internal and external data through advanced analytics and machine learning, improving quality and compliance amongst many others.
• The functions covered include all those across R&D, manufacturing and commercial, with particular focus on quality management / assurance, regulatory affairs, product safely and medical affairs. The role will also work closely with our consulting teams covering commercial, market access and other functions across the Life Sciences value chain
• You will work with international clients and we will provide you the opportunity to gain experience working in multi-cultural teams within Switzerland and abroad.
• You will be collaborating with PwC’s global network of Life Sciences experts, you will have access to our market leading propositions, methodologies, assets and training materials.
• You will work in a fast growing team. The environment is driven by respect, collegiality, strong team spirit, winning as team not as an individual.

What we expect from you.

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a science-related discipline plus around 6 years’ experience working in life sciences, within R&D, manufacturing or commercial at a life sciences company. Out of the 6 years you have at least 3 years experiences working as a consultant.
• In consulting, you will have experience in working & running large transformation projects, with experience in developing new propositions and developing new work. From industry, you will have been exposed to many of the key steps of improving quality in regulated business functions.
• You have had exposure in innovations in technology/cloud/RWD/NLP that drove/could drive business performance, simplification and/or patient centricity in the health industries and markets.
• You have had exposure to some of the following areas: GxP, data privacy / protection, digital strategy development, operating model design, quality system design / improvement / maintenance, process improvement, technology implementation and digital & analytics technologies in a GxP regulated environment.
• You pay attention to detail, have strong problem-solving skills and are technologically proficient.
• You have excellent teamworking, interpersonal, listening and communication skills.
• You are fluent in English and ideally have knowledge of German and/or French and you have travel mobility to serve international clients.
• You are a passionate team player during worktime and enjoy socializing with clients and colleagues after work.

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