Manager, Corporate & Portfolio Strategy

Team Overview

IQVIA Consulting Services has always been a key organization within IQVIA, providing clients with a wide range of impactful solutions and assets to leverage as well as functioning as a key hub for internal talent development. Today, IQVIA Consulting N.A. employs over 300 team members who partner with our life sciences and healthcare clients around the world, working across a number of solution areas or “Centers of Excellence”.

Our Corporate & Portfolio Strategy (C&PS) CoE helps clients with their key strategic decisions at the Corporate, Portfolio, and Product levels.

Strategic Engagements Include:

• Corporate strategy – Supporting clients addressing strategic challenges, M&A, and business model redesign.
• Portfolio strategy – Supporting clients as they prioritize and optimize their portfolio or identify assets to complement it.
• Product strategy - Supporting brand and BD teams on questions spanning from country prioritization to LoE strategy.
• Planning Suite of Software Solutions – Our technology and data services allow us to be more efficient and generate informed insights for our clients in forecasting and modeling.

Role & Responsibilities

As a Manager on the Corporate & Portfolio Strategy team you will be responsible for managing or leading multiple consulting projects and ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery for clients in the pharmaceutical or related industries by:

• Serving as key point of contact with IQVIA clients, primarily pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
• Managing project teams in the design, development and delivery of client deliverables
• Providing direction, advice and intellectual leadership to clients and delivery teams.
• Leveraging experience and business acumen to identify strategic alternatives and approaches to client questions
• Providing follow-up with clients after project delivery to ensure satisfaction.
• Supporting the development of intellectual property for use on future engagements
• Ensuring the development and delivery of client reports and presentations.
• Sharing subject matter expertise with others to elevate our capabilities to deliver world-class solutions for clients
• Leading internal work streams on critical people-related issues such as recruitment, training, and team development.
   

About You

Candidates interested in joining our Corporate & Portfolio Strategy team as a Manager should have:

• Extensive experience in consulting within the pharmaceutical and/or healthcare industry with evidence of career progression
• Knowledge of key issues and current market developments in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries
• Over 2 years of project management experience focused on strategic life sciences consulting projects
• Experience leading presentations, chairing meetings, and workshop facilitation
• Proven ability to manage large-scale and/or multiple projects, meeting deadlines and ensuring high quality outcomes.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience in developing relationships with senior level managers and executives in the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry
• Interpersonal communication skills and ability to work effectively with colleagues across the organization to accomplish team goals
• Ability to contribute to business development through the identification of leads, development of proposals etc.
   

Additional Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience strategy consulting and/or life sciences experience required.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
• Graduate degree or continued education preferred, but not required.
• Demonstrable leadership and people development experience.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written)
• A willingness and ability to travel.
• Right to live and work in the recruiting country.

Please Note: This position requires candidates to be onsite frequently in our New York, Boston, or San Francisco offices.

• Candidates will have an opportunity to meet with team members in their local office throughout our interview process.