Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences Commercial, Director

Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences Commercial, Director

About Baringa:

We set out to build the world's most trusted consulting firm - creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You'll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick - slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

Our Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences practice is looking for an experienced Director to join the Commercial (Sales, Marketing & Medical) team.

Baringa partners with global pharma, biotech, and life sciences organisations to drive innovation, improve patient outcomes, and deliver commercial success. We help clients navigate a rapidly evolving landscape shaped by scientific breakthroughs, digital transformation, and regulatory change.

Our work spans the full value chain- across R&D, Medical, Commercial and Quality teams. We bring deep sector expertise and a collaborative mindset to solve complex challenges, whether that's unlocking the value of AI, or helping our clients pivot how they work as new processes and technologies revolutionise every part of their value chain and the value they create for patients.

We're proud to support leading biopharma companies, research charities, and emerging innovators in building resilient, patient-centric, and digitally enabled organisations.

As our practice expands across the UK and Europe, we're looking for a Director to lead transformative engagements and help clients unlock new value in this pivotal moment for the industry.

What you will be doing

We provide advisory services to our clients across the pharma value chain from R&D to commercialisation, using our industry expertise and consulting skills. We work with a variety of clients from the large established players to the rapidly growing industry disruptors. Examples of our work in Commercial & Medical include:

• Developing strategies and operating models to transform ways of working across the Commercial functions of our clients, with the Sales, Marketing, & Medical customer facing teams
• Implementing change in global, x-functional organisations in a strategic and sustainable way
• Optimising ways of working in response to change, i.e., a new strategic direction, competitive market entry, changing customer needs, evolving evidence requirements etc.
• Advising on Customer Engagement strategies and operating models, considering how to measure impact and leverage data for insight
• Creating best practice for strategic alliances to be successful whether that be for co-promotion or post-merger integration
• Supporting Brand Teams with Advisory Boards, Launch Excellence and go-to-market strategies
• Developing omnichannel strategies and building Global and Local capability including the adoption of digital tools and agile ways of working
• Generating innovative thought leadership and sharing with the market.

Your skills and experience

• You will have strong pharmaceutical and life science experience through working in management consulting with pharmaceutical and life science clients (12+ years).
• You will have a track record of taking ownership, leading teams and delivering results in challenging client-facing environments.
• You will have a strong entrepreneurial spirit and the commercial acumen needed to help us grow the sector.
• You will have demonstrable consulting skills in the following:

• Life Sciences Commercial functions (Sales, Marketing, Medical) Transformation Programme Management
• Change Management
• Process design enabled by technology
• Digital, data and analytics
• Strategy and Operating Model development
• Demonstrated leadership in client-facing environments, with a track record of delivering results.
• Strong commercial acumen and entrepreneurial mindset.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and drive business development efforts
• Ability to lead and inspire teams, fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture.

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting People First.
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the 'ideal' work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We've introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That's why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don't have any quotas: if you're ready and delivering at the right level, you'll get that promotion.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company's success.

Diversity and Inclusion.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace.
You can be a part of our 'Great Place to Work' - with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we've achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.
We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.