Business Consultant - Life Sciences R&D

 

As a Consultant in R&D, you will help pharma bring treatments to patients faster by transforming how they work with Technology, Data, and AI. You will focus on reshaping operating models, driving organizational change, and measuring tangible business value. R&D is a broad area that includes several distinct practices: Clinical Operations, Clinical Data Management, Regulatory, and Pharmacovigilance. You will focus in one of these practices based on your background, interests, and needs of the business. You will build credibility, depth, and relationships in that practice, but staffing will remain fungible across R&D and movement between practices is always permitted.

Lead project workstreams from end-to-end, ensuring the high-quality design and delivery of customer solutions

Solve complex problems for Life Sciences leaders, leveraging Veeva’s unique data and software insights

Mentor and manage Associate Consultants, overseeing their work and professional development within your workstream

Drive practice growth by contributing to business development and internal IP creation

Experience: 3+ years in Life Sciences Consulting (Business or Management Consulting preferred)

Domain Knowledge: Experience in biopharma ClinOps, ClinData, Regulatory, Safety, or general R&D strategy

Analytical Rigor: A strong mindset for both quantitative and qualitative reasoning

Communication: Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly to senior stakeholders

Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher

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Knowledge of Veeva products

Experience delivering SaaS or Tech-enabled consulting solutions

Our process is different than most. It is designed to be fast, efficient and respectful. Here are the steps:

You submit your resume, short cover letter of questions, and take a personality assessment

Within 5-10 business days, we will notify you via email if we would like to go to the next step or not

The next step is a 45-minute interview with a leader of the practice, followed by a job history interview and case exercise. You will have one week to prepare for the case exercise

Within one week after the case exercise, we will give you an offer or let you know that we do not wish to move forward

Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance

Flexible PTO and company paid holidays

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving program

Unrivaled career progression in a fast-growing, global team

Veeva is a Work Anywhere company. You can work from home or the office on any given day

Base pay: $70,000 - $140,000

The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.