Make Your Mark at Ipsos
We are a leading global market and social research company, enabling organisations to make smarter, bolder, and faster decisions.
Are you an experienced healthcare consultant who enjoys solving complex strategic challenges with clients? Have you built trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and led advisory engagements from insight to action? If you're looking for a role where consulting judgement, commercial thinking and client leadership matter as much as technical expertise, we'd love to hear from you.
About the role:
Ipsos Healthcare Advisory is a specialist life sciences consulting practice that partners with pharmaceutical, biotech and medtech organisations to address critical strategic challenges across the product lifecycle.
This is first and foremost a consulting role. While our recommendations are informed by world-class evidence and insight, our clients engage us for strategic thinking, practical advice and clear recommendations that support business-critical decisions.
As Associate Principal, you’ll work with a high degree of autonomy as a trusted day-to-day partner to clients, leading complex engagements, guiding clients through ambiguity and helping shape strategic decisions across areas such as launch strategy, healthcare transformation, patient pathways, stakeholder engagement and growth opportunities.
You’ll work closely with Principals to deepen client relationships, identify new business opportunities and contribute to the continued growth of one of the UK's leading healthcare advisory practices. Alongside delivering high-quality client work, you’ll play an important role in developing junior colleagues, contributing to thought leadership and helping evolve our consulting offer.
This role is ideally suited to someone with established consulting experience who is ready to take significant ownership of client relationships, commercial growth and team development within a growing healthcare advisory business.
About you:
Essential skills:
- Significant experience in healthcare strategy, management consulting or healthcare advisory.
- Proven ability to lead complex client engagements from scoping through to delivery.
- Strong strategic problem-solving skills, with experience translating evidence into actionable recommendations.
- Demonstrated experience building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
- Commercial awareness, including proposal development, account growth and business development activity.
- Outstanding communication, facilitation and executive presentation skills.
- Excellent project leadership skills and the ability to bring multidisciplinary teams together around a common objective.
- Broad understanding of the healthcare ecosystem and its key stakeholders.
- Confidence in AI use and adoption to enhance day-to-day consulting, insight and delivery activities.
Desirable skills:
- Experience in one or more commercial strategy, medical affairs, market access, value demonstration, healthcare transformation or pathway design.
- Experience contributing to thought leadership, proposition development or market-facing content.
- Experience coaching and developing junior consultants and analysts.
- Experience applying AI-enabled tools and methodologies within consulting or healthcare strategy environments.
Behaviours:
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Strategic and analytical thinking
- Commercial judgement
- Curiosity and continuous learning
- Resilience, adaptability and flexibility
- Leadership and influence
- Relationship building and stakeholder management
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Coaching and talent development
- Client-first mindset
Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.
We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.
We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.
Ready to have an impact? Apply now!
