Strategy& Pharma and Life Sciences Consulting Manager

At PwC, our people in strategy consulting focus on providing strategic guidance and insights to organisations. They analyse market trends, assess business performance, and develop recommendations to help clients achieve their goals. These individuals work closely with clients to identify opportunities for growth, optimise operations, and enhance overall business performance. As a corporate and business strategy consultant at PwC, you will analyse client needs, provide consulting services across different strategic areas, and offer guidance and support to help clients develop and implement effective strategies that align with their business objectives and drive growth.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member's unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

• Inspire and motivate team members to achieve exceptional results
• Implement strategic planning initiatives to enhance client outcomes
• Cultivate leadership development within the team
• Analyze complex issues and develop actionable solutions
• Deliver outputs that meet client expectations

• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of and/or success in professional services or corporate roles, helping Pharma and Life Sciences companies define and evaluate their Enterprise and digital strategies to drive growth and operating model enhancements to achieve growth;
• Lead client engagements with generally of 3 - 7 consultants each;
• Build client relationships with C-level executives and maintain those relationships over multiple years;
• Lead and support business development - relationship development, proposal development and delivery;
• Counsel C-suite clients in designing, structuring and delivering major enterprise wide transformation programs;
• Understand key drivers of profitability and financial resilience, and ability to integrate those drivers into a sustainable strategy;
• Build productive and collaborative relationships with team members and proactively providing and seeking guidance, clarification and feedback;
• Conduct and manage market research and quantitative and qualitative analyses, including the timely synthesis of complex data into meaningful insights and the ability to readily grasp analytical frameworks and employ them effectively to either qualitative or quantitative evidence;
• Experience leading portfolio restructuring programs to allow organizations to drive differentiated growth in the market;
• Experience leading teams to generate a vision and creating an atmosphere of trust, leveraging diverse views and encouraging improvement and innovation;
• Experience managing a team to a successful project conclusion through problem solving global, enterprise-wide strategy issues;
• Able to identify and address client needs;
• Able to build, maintain, and utilize networks of client relationships; and,
• Communicate effectively in an organized and knowledgeable manner in written and verbal formats.