Analyst/Senior Analyst - Strategy Consulting

Full time, permanent | London (hybrid)

(We will appoint at Analyst or Senior Analyst level depending on experience)

About Lucid Strategy Consulting

We are a strategic management consulting firm dedicated to life sciences, helping our pharma clients in three main areas:

Asset Strategy:

We help life sciences leaders define and execute integrated strategies that enhance asset and portfolio value, optimise lifecycle performance and align commercialisation strategy and planning with actionable solutions.

Business Design & Transformation:

We drive organizational improvements, notably the re-invention of market-facing functions such as Medical Affairs and Commercial, to adapt to significant shifts in the healthcare sector worldwide.

Innovative strategies demand adaptation of historic operating models and roles, especially harnessing the power of data & AI.

Patient & Customer Value:

We increase our clients' competitive advantage by enabling them to deliver patient and HCP customer experiences that improve outcomes.

Our work improves organizational performance across the value chain - ensuring functions truly prioritize stakeholder needs in ways that improve their preference, loyalty, and advocacy, as well as patient outcomes.

Role Profile

We are looking for Analysts and Senior Analysts to join our Strategy Consulting team. In both roles, you will work in project teams to help solve complex healthcare challenges—analysing data, developing insights and translating strategy into clear, client-ready outputs.

The core responsibilities are shared , with scope, autonomy and leadership expectations increasing at Senior Analyst level. The relevant accountabilities for each level are outlined below.

Key Accountabilities:

Project delivery

Analyst

• Participating in the development of project specifications including objectives and scope

• Contribute to the team development of issue trees

• Distinguishing between ‘critical’ and ‘interesting’ data in problem solving

• Designing and building Excel/ quantitative models and interviews/ surveys and reporting tools

• Researching, analysing and summarising information to a high quality

• Presenting qualitative/ quantitative information effectively

• Overall, creating clear, structured, concise written and oral communications

Senior Analyst

• Contributes significantly to the approach and creation of project deliverables

• Creates high-quality outputs, client ready in terms of presentation (visual, format, QC etc.)

• Begins to work more autonomously on project delivery tasks

• Utilises time efficiently to deliver outputs

• Participates in the development of project specifications including objectives and scope

• Demonstrates excellence in the usage of tools and frameworks

• Creates graphics or frameworks to illustrate the outcome of analysis or strategic directions (guided via consultant or manager)

• Identifies logical gaps and overlaps in issue trees

• Demonstrates determination and applies creativity in identifying and analysing data

• Selects appropriate consulting approaches and frameworks for problem solving

• Supports the generation of insights from research and analyses – identifies the implications, the 'so what', from data gathering/ analysis

• Interrogates complex scientific and clinical data, clinical practices and healthcare system inputs to assimilate clinical and commercial strategies

• Presents qualitative/ quantitative information effectively

• Overall, creating clear, structured, concise written and oral communications

Project and team management

Analyst

• Providing input to project plan development

• Providing proactive support to team members in execution of their project responsibilities

• Proactively identifies risks to project delivery related to own workload and raises them with associated resolution actions to Project Manager

• Under guidance of a Senior Analyst / Consultant:

  • Perform budget tracking

  • Create project status reports

• Proactively supporting team members and colleagues

• Work as a team player

• Contribute to team morale

• Demonstrate commitment, good work-ethic and diligence

Senior Analyst

• Develops realistic project plans with associated roles and responsibilities

• Proactively identifies risks to project delivery related to own workload and raises them with associated resolution actions to Project Manager

• Perform budget tracking

• Create project status reports

• Proactively supporting team members and colleagues

• Begins to guide more junior members of the team where appropriate

• Work as a team player

• Contribute to team morale

• Demonstrate commitment, good work-ethic and diligence

Additional responsibilities

Analyst

• Participating in the development of proposals

• Proficiency using tools to support the estimation of resourcing

• Beginning to build rapport with client colleagues

Senior Analyst

• Participating in the development of proposals

• Proficiency using tools to support the estimation of resourcing

• Builds rapport/ relationships with client colleagues

• Actively strengthens and builds personal networks

What We're Looking For:

Essential skills (both levels)

• A degree in a scientific, medical or life sciences field

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport, establish credibility and trust with clients and colleagues

• The ability to produce exceptional quality written and verbal client deliverables

• The ability to think strategically and problem solve

• Strong MS Office communication tools – high proficiency in MS PowerPoint and Word, familiarity with MS Excel

Additional experience expected at Senior Analyst level

• The ability to understand and assimilate complex scientific and clinical data/inputs

• Knowledge of Global and US healthcare context from clinical, systems and patient perspective

Desirable skills (both levels)

• Experience in a client-facing consulting position or similar role within the pharmaceutical/health sector

• Aptitude for business development activities, including identifying opportunities and contributing to proposal development

• High proficiency in MS Excel

BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH US

Our culture is fundamental to the delivery of transformation. Harnessing the talent and ambitions of those we work with empowers us to deliver our magic. On top of this, our benefits include:

• Discretionary bonus scheme;

• Contributory pension with Lucid contribution up to 5% of basic salary (enrolment after 3 months of employment);

• Cycle to work scheme;

• 25 working days holiday, 1 Celebration Day of your choice, 4 Christmas closure days plus 8 Bank Holidays per annum (pro-rata for part-time);

• Flexible holiday buy and sell scheme;

• Family friendly policies;

• Private family health cover, including Employee Assistance Programme and a comprehensive employee rewards scheme;

• 4x basic salary life assurance cover;

• Medicash Healthcare Cash Plan (Level 1 company cover)

• Season Ticket Loans;

• Regular incentive schemes aligned to individual and team performance;

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE LUCID?

We believe in providing a culture of authenticity, where we can all be ourselves, make real connections, and enjoy the work that we do.

We empower our people to embark on a journey of growth and advancement by offering meaningful learning and development opportunities. Central to our ethos is our commitment to cultivating an environment that embraces and respects people of all backgrounds and identities, underpinned by a culture of conscious inclusion and support.

The Lucid values are not just words; they are the culmination of our collective efforts. Co-created by our people for our people, these values serve as our guiding principles, ensuring that every decision we make positively impacts the lives of the clients, patients, healthcare professionals, and colleagues we serve.

· Compassionately Human: We think about the human impact of our actions

· Accountable Allies: We are the go-to strategic partners for our clients

· Invent with Intent: We create meaningful solutions to solve real problems

· Courageously Curious : We challenge ourselves to think disruptively

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds and identities. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment experience to everyone.

This commitment to inclusion is explicitly inclusive of race, colour, sex, age, pregnancy, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression or disability.

As part of our commitment to recruiting and supporting colleagues with disabilities Lucid Group are a committed member of the UK Government’s Disability Scheme, supporting people with disabilities provides us with access to a wider talent pool and enables us to be a force for good in the world by creating fair and equitable access to employment opportunities. Aligned to this scheme we commit to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible by:

1) Offering a guaranteed interview to candidates with disabilities who meet the essential criteria for the role

2) Anticipate and provide reasonable adjustments

3) Support any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition

If you wish to apply under this scheme please indicate so when asked on our DEI page which will appear as part of our job application process.