Partner, Life Sciences

Half of new medicines fall short of their launch expectations. CF helps pharma, biotech and medtech companies change that by accelerating the adoption of innovation in health systems. We are looking for a Partner to win work and grow our Life Sciences practice, with a focus on global and EUCAN clients.

The Role

You will win and lead work with senior pharma, biotech and medtech clients, owning a portfolio of priority accounts and a personal revenue target. A central aim of the role is to open doors for CF with global and EUCAN teams, with a primary focus on our priority therapy areas: cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic disease (CVKM), neurodegenerative disease and oncology. We will still take on work in other therapy areas where we can add value. You will lead delivery of the work you win and, with the Managing Partner, build the practice and its team. As a member of our senior leadership team, you will recruit, mentor and develop the next generation of leaders in health.

We win work through relationships and insight. You will do well here if you enjoy meeting senior people, getting to the heart of their problem and shaping how CF can help.

Requirements

What you will bring

• A record of winning consulting or advisory work from senior pharma, biotech or medtech buyers, with evidence of revenue won and clients who came back for more.
• Close relationships with senior global and EUCAN leaders, such as general managers and heads of market access, medical and commercial, that you can use to make introductions.
• Well-formed views on launch, market access and reimbursement, and deep knowledge of how NICE, NHS England, MHRA, EMA and national HTA bodies shape adoption.
• Entrepreneurial drive and resilience: you create opportunities, are comfortable approaching senior people you have not met, and keep going after a loss.
• Experience leading complex engagements and multidisciplinary teams, in consulting, industry or both.
• A record of mentoring and growing consultants, and of thought leadership in writing and on stage.
• Desirable: a clinical, scientific or health economics background, and another European language.

What you will sell

• Launch and uptake excellence: accelerating uptake before, during and after launch through guidelines, pathways, delivery models, incentives, reimbursement and partnerships with health systems. Our data covers every medicine launched in the UK, so we can track past uptake and project the future path by indication and geography.
• Integrated evidence review and generation: finding the gaps a value proposition must fill for patients, physicians, providers and payers, and generating real-world evidence in as little as four weeks from patient-level data.
• Policy and government influence: shaping the conditions for innovation through regulators, HTA bodies, government and the media, using our own record-level data to publish new insight.

About CF

CF is a specialist health consultancy with offices in London, Dublin and Riyadh, rated gold for Healthcare and Life Sciences by the Financial Times. Our mission is to make lasting improvements in health and healthcare, and to develop leaders in health. We have advised the NHS, DHSC, NICE, MHRA and the ABPI, and supported two thirds of the top 20 life sciences companies. Our life sciences clients sell to the health systems we advise, so we see adoption from the inside.

Working at CF

We value being connected to clients and colleagues, so we work four days out of five in person, with clients on site or at our offices. On top of this, everyone has up to 44 extra remote working days a year, which works out at around three days a week in person. Holiday is 30 days, rising by one day for each year of service to 35. Our values are Be Connected, Uphold Standards, Inspire Change and Create the Future. We recruit, promote and reward on skills and contribution alone.

Benefits

• We offer a competitive and flexible reward package designed to support you at work and beyond it. You will benefit from a generous holiday allowance that grows with your career (minimum of 25 days), a strong employer pension contribution, and the freedom to tailor benefits to suit your lifestyle, from wellbeing and fitness to financial protection.
• We are committed to supporting life’s important moments, with enhanced family leave, income and life protection, and access to practical benefits that make everyday life easier, such as interest-free loans and travel support.
• Your wellbeing matters to us. You will have access to a comprehensive wellbeing and employee assistance programme, preventative health benefits, and initiatives that support an active, balanced way of working.
• Above all, we invest in our people; offering flexibility, security, and benefits that grow with you, so you can do your best work while building a sustainable and rewarding career.