Engagement Manager - Medical and Scientific Strategy

Boston | Prescient Advisory | Full-time | Partially remote

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Whilst the role advertised is for our Boston MA office, we are open to applications for both our Jersey City NJ and San Mateo CA offices also.

About You

Do you want to support biopharma drug development or commercialization strategy? Are you a highly motivated professional looking to leverage your experience into a valuable career? Prescient is looking for seasoned consultants to join us as Engagement Managers for our growing Medical Advisory business in Boston, MA. Do you have experience in and a passion for:

  • Leading and growing client accounts?
  • Supporting highly complex biosimilars, oncology or immunology projects?
  • Delivering solutions based on your knowledge of the evolving US biopharma market and trends?
  • Mentoring and developing account teams by using your core consultancy skills?

If so, consider turning your expertise into a valuable career at Prescient.

 

About Prescient 

Prescient's Medical and Scientific Strategy practice focuses on helping biopharmaceutical clients create clinical and commercial strategies that deliver differentiated and valuable brands. Our experts with PhDs, MDs and MBAs combine deep therapeutic and functional expertise with a passion for helping develop, launch and market medicines that expand treatment options, optimize patient outcomes and deliver high levels of return.

 

About the Opportunity

As an Engagement Manager, your time will be divided as follows:

  • 60% project delivery
  • 20% client business development (mixture of existing and new clients)
  • 20% Medical Advisory business growth and team-development activities 

You will be part of a fast-growing PE-backed business that allows high-performing employees to make an impact and be part of our leadership team. You will have the chance to channel your advanced degree into strategising the development and commercialisation of portfolios, assets and brands by integrating therapeutic, clinical and commercial expertise to ensure that clients are able to make confident decisions.

You will join a start-up team with an established client base and play an important role in developing and implementing its growth strategy. You will be responsible for executing successful advisory engagements across our clients’ product and company life cycles, and for growing revenue within both new and existing accounts. As your clients will mainly be in the US, the Engagement Manager position requires a thorough understanding of evolving biopharma trends in these markets. Many projects will also involve global client stakeholders; therefore, knowledge of drug development and commercialisation in other markets is also desirable.

  • Time Allocation: 75% of your time will be spent in office, with 25% in domestic or international travel (for client meetings, conferences and inter-office visits)

Personal Specifications

  • Project Management: Ensure three-dimensional management of client engagements, including design, planning, client and people management, evidence collection, analysis and reporting
  • Business Development:Seek out new business within existing accounts and pursue opportunities with new brands
  • Client Management: Collaborate with other members of the project and account teams to ensure clients experience best-in-class customer service
  • Subject Matter Expertise: Act as a valued subject matter expert externally, and mentor junior staff internally
  • Thought Leadership: Collaborate with the marketing team to develop and publish thought leadership content that has a meaningful impact on Prescient’s brand and business development activities
  • Line Management: Mentor the members of the Advisory team by identifying their strengths and opportunities and supporting their development; ensure sustained focus on delivering concise insights that can create impact and be of value to our clients

Required Experience and Skills

  • One or more of the following degrees: PhD in life sciences; MD; MS/MBA combination; MBA
  • More than 5 years of professional experience, of which at least 3 years are in consulting
  • Excellent business development skills to cultivate and grow existing client relationships; strong account management skills
  • Exceptional framing and solution-forming skills
  • Extensive experience leading and developing consulting account teams
  • Confident communication skills to interact with clients on a peer-to-peer basis and provide subject matter expertise

 

What We Offer

  • Highly competitive base salary plus Performance Related Bonus, 401K matching and Health & Dental benefits
  • A strong values-based culture which is actively lived and promoted
  • A team made up of smart and supportive people
  • Leaders who are accessible and listen, ambitious for our teams, committed to coaching and sharing their expertise
  • An environment where our thinking and our work are all innovative, imaginative and bright
  • On-going and tailored career development that stretches you and is based on your ambition, abilities and interests – not boxes
  • A culture where everyone is actively encouraged to contribute and influence the business
  • Flexible working, recognition for going the extra mile, and a flat hierarchy

 

About Prescient Healthcare Group

Prescient is a pharma services firm specializing in dynamic decision support and product and portfolio strategy. We partner with our clients to turn science into value by helping them understand the potential of their molecules, shaping their strategic plans and allowing their decision making to be the biggest differentiating factor in the success of their products. When companies partner with Prescient, the molecules in their hands have a greater potential for success than the same science in the hands of their competitors.
 
Founded in 2007, Prescient is a global firm with a footprint in ten cities across three continents. Our team of nearly 475 experts partners with 27 of the top 30 biopharmaceutical companies, the fastest-growing mid-caps and cutting-edge emerging biotechs, including some of the biggest and most innovative brands. More than 80% of our employees hold advanced life sciences degrees, and our teams deliver an impressive depth of therapeutic, clinical and commercial expertise.
 
The annual full time base salary range for this role is ($145,000 - $170,000). Specific compensation is determined through interviews and a review of relevant education, experience, training, skills, geographic location and alignment with market data. Additionally, positions may be eligible to receive a discretionary bonus as determined by bonus program guidelines. Prescient offers PTO and paid holidays, the terms of which are set forth in the program policies. All full time employees also are eligible to participate in various benefit plans, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance and 401K; in each case in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.
 
Prescient has been a portfolio company of Bridgepoint Development Capital since 2021 and Baird Capital since 2017. For more information, please visit: www.prescienthg.com.
 
We are an equal opportunity employer and fully comply with applicable legislation in all of the geographies in which we operate. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to veteran status, uniformed service member status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other category protected by applicable national, federal, state or local laws.

 

 

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