Consultant

Wilmington PLC are looking for a Consultant
Consultant
Location: UK Homebased
Salary: £30k - £40k DOE
Term: Full Time, Permanent
Why do we want you?
You are educated to degree level in Life Sciences/Healthcare (or equivalent) with experience in managing consulting projects.
You ideally have knowledge of either the Pharmaceutical business processes or the NHS or both would be a real advantage.
You have well-developed research and analytic skills and are a superior problem-solver and creative thinker.
This is an extremely busy, varied role that requires a high level of prioritisation and planning.
If this sounds like you, please do read on!
A bit about us
Wilmington plc is a company with a difference. Our core purpose is helping our customers to do the right business in the right way. We help customers to understand and evaluate the constantly evolving regulatory landscape, and as their trusted partner supporting them to respond to emerging areas of risk and the evolving role of compliance. Our customers come to us from a broad range of industries for everything they need to know to ensure and maintain compliance. We provide high quality Information & Data (I&D) Intelligence with a complementary range of Training & Education (T&E) solutions. Our customer-led product management culture is underpinned by an agile approach that allows us to deliver solutions that are high value, up to date, and responsive to change.
Our ambition is to have the best people work with us at Wilmington, delivering their best work because we care about them, include them and empower them. We will support you, develop you and recognise you.
Wilmington Healthcare, (Part of Wilmington I&D) is a market leading provider of healthcare data, education, news and information resources with outstanding analytics capabilities. We provide our clients with market leading insight into local health economies, complemented by increased access to senior health stakeholders and the wider NHS enabling improved outcomes for patients. Our leading insight and news service, the Health Service Journal, provides the most influential people in health with vital intelligence, analysis and advice.
Main Purpose of Role
To run and deliver day to day execution of our consulting engagements and workstreams. Working under the guidance of a Principal Consultant/ Partner you will develop insights into healthcare related issues by analysing relevant data sets and interviewing healthcare professionals.
You will be required to develop and present project plans and proposals, liaise with clients in fact may be the day to day client contact on projects, oversee deliverables, timelines, and ongoing project execution.
Work directly with clients and internal teams and take ownership of the overall project and final deliverables.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Lead the day-to-day execution of a client project while guiding and supporting team members, contributing to the analysis, design, and implementation of the projects.
- Build positive client relationships providing regular communications with the client, including client deliverables, and continually assess the clients’ needs, identify any change in scope/requirements and develop cohesive plans that improve the operations with efficient procedures and systems.
- Manage the project management aspect of the consulting engagement and be a point of contact between the client and the consulting team.
- Plan projects effectively to increase productivity within teams for better and more efficient execution of tasks and projects.
- Research and analyse relevant business data, information, and project budgets, to support writing relevant and accurate proposals.
- Ensure cohesion between project teams and to make sure that projects meet the scope and brief from the client. Assign tasks to team members, track the progress of the team and develop methods to enhance cooperation and productivity and problem-solving when issues arise
- Monitor project scope and profitability
- Identify new concepts for products and find ways to upsell or cross-sell to increase revenue and build brand awareness.
- Organise healthcare professional engagement in projects
Skills and Experience Required
- Experience in the same or similar role
- Educated to degree level in Life Sciences/Healthcare (or equivalent) with experience in managing consulting projects.
- Knowledge of the NHS and / or Pharmaceutical business processes will be an advantage.
- Well-developed research and analytic capabilities, superior problem-solving skills, and creative thinking
- Superior communication skills, both verbal and written, along with the ability to influence, persuade, and ask the tough questions with different teams at various levels of the business and have excellent organisation skills.
- Ability to effectively manage time, personnel, and resources
- Ability to adapt, flex, and change directions given client, project, and team circumstances understanding the ever-changing environment and market dynamics.
- Proactively engaging diverse perspectives to solve problems and optimistically tackling challenges
- Embrace multiple projects, knowing relevant importance, and ensuring the highest standards are achieved through iterative collaboration across teams.
- Desire to move quickly, not be afraid of failure, and be inspired by challenges; be a learner by nature and seek new information and inspiration to drive progress, collaboration, and remarkable outcomes.
- Ability to cultivate existing and new client relationships resulting in the sale or project work
- Team player who is adept at enhancing team success through active participation in internal and external client project teams
As a portfolio Company, we are all different at Wilmington. We understand the power of bringing difference together and we celebrate the innovation and creativity it brings through diverse experience, knowledge, and perspectives