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We welcome applications from life science professionals with project management or consulting experience within our growing Competitive Strategy practice.\nAbout Our Competitive Strategy PracticePrescient has four core practices: Commercial, Competitive Strategy, Medical and Value, Pricing and Access. We specialise in supporting our biopharma clients in making insightful strategic choices for their products and portfolios. Our offerings are designed to anticipate and respond to competitive risk across the product life cycle – from early pipeline through post launch – delivering timely insights and strategic implications that enable integrated decision making across competitive intelligence, marketing, and medical and commercial functions.\nWhen you join this exciting venture, you will work with global healthcare and pharmaceutical clients across the full product life cycle, from discovery to loss of exclusivity, to help them unlock the full potential of their brands and portfolios.\nAbout the OpportunityYou will be part of a fast-growing PE-backed business that allows high-performing employees to make an impact and contribute to growing the business. You will have the chance to channel your experience and know-how into supporting the development and commercialization of our clients’ assets and portfolios.\nAs an Engagement Manager, you will act as the day-to-day lead on small and mid-size projects or key workstreams within larger engagements. You will increasingly work through others, coaching and supporting Analysts and Consultants, making strong individual contributions and providing effective support to senior team members where needed.\nYou will be a core point of contact for clients, developing productive and enduring relationships and establishing yourself as a credible strategic advisor. You will help ensure projects are delivered effectively, efficiently and in line with Prescient’s high quality standards.\nAs most of your clients will be based in the US, the Engagement Manager position requires a good understanding of the evolving US biopharmaceutical market and trends.\nKey Responsibilities\n\nReporting: Report to a Director, Associate Vice President or Vice President within the Competitive Strategy practice, ensuring clear communication on project progress, risks and resource needs\n\nProject Execution and Management:\nLead the day-to-day management of competitive strategy and competitive intelligence engagements, ensuring high-quality deliverables and adherence to timelines and budgets\n\nStructure and manage workstreams, guide junior team members and ensure that analytical approaches align with client objectives\n\nClient Interaction and Service:\nBuild credibility by understanding client contexts, anticipating needs and delivering thoughtful, actionable insights\n\nSupport senior leaders in ensuring clients experience best-in-class service throughout the engagement life cycle\n\nAccount Development:\nProactively identify and qualify new business opportunities across existing accounts, shaping proposals and recommending strategic growth pathways to account leads\n\nTake a leading role in deepening client relationships, regularly engaging senior stakeholders, articulating value and driving account expansion through consistent, high-impact delivery\n\nSubject Matter and Therapeutic Area Expertise:Develop and apply a strong understanding of relevant therapeutic areas, clinical development pathways, regulatory considerations and competitive environments\n\nServe as a knowledge resource to internal teams\nPeople Leadership: Provide day-to-day coaching, feedback and oversight to junior team members to support their development and ensure high-quality contributions\n\nConference and External Engagement: Attend industry conferences or virtual events to gather competitive insights, deepen therapeutic knowledge, and build familiarity with key stakeholders and trends\n\nEssential Skills and ExperienceExperience in biopharma client services and consulting is required; CI experience is preferred\nStrong results orientation with a proven track record of:\n\nManaging day-to-day project execution, ensuring high-quality outputs and timely delivery\n\nStructuring workstreams, managing junior team members and maintaining project momentum\n\nAwareness of business development opportunities, with the ability to recognize potential areas for account growth, contribute to proposal development and support senior leaders in strengthening client relationships\n\nA strong grounding in therapeutic areas, clinical development, product strategy and the competitive landscape; ability to quickly learn new disease areas and modalities\n\nEmerging client management skills:\nConfidence in interacting directly with clients to clarify needs, present findings and support ongoing engagement\n\nAbility to build trust through credibility, preparedness and thoughtful communication\n\nGrowing capability to act as a strategic partner, including recognizing business development opportunities to add value or expand support within an account\n\nClear and confident communication skills, enabling effective interaction with clients and internal teams, and the ability to contribute meaningfully to strategic discussions with guidance from senior colleagues\n\nAbility to connect details to strategic implications, synthesize complex information and communicate insights in a clear, structured manner\n\nWillingness to “roll up your sleeves” to support analyses while helping elevate the team’s work\n\nAbility to give and receive feedback constructively\n\nAbility to navigate ambiguity, adapt to new situations, and rapidly acquire new therapeutic or methodological expertise\n\nBA/BS required; an advanced degree in a life science discipline is preferred\n\nWhat We Offer\nA competitive package and remuneration linked to performance\n\nA strong values-based culture grounded in collaboration, curiosity and excellence\n\nTailored career development based on your interests and aspirations – not a one-size-fits-all approach\n\nA team of smart, supportive colleagues who invest in each other’s success\n\nLeaders who are accessible, ambitious for the team and committed to mentorship\n\nOpportunities to influence the business and help shape our growing Competitive Strategy practice\n\nA flexible working schedule and recognition for outstanding contributions\n\nA flat hierarchy that empowers you to take ownership and make an impact\n\nAbout Prescient Healthcare GroupPrescient® 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.\nFounded in 2007, Prescient is a global firm with a footprint in 10 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 70% of our employees hold advanced life science degrees, and our teams deliver an impressive depth of therapeutic, clinical and commercial expertise.\nThe annual full time base salary range for this role is ($120,000 - $155,000). 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.\nPrescient has been a portfolio company of Bridgepoint Development Capital since 2021 and Baird Capital since 2017. For more information, please visit .\nWe 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.\nDon’t meet every job requirement? That’s okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. 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