Cognizant
Director - Consulting Growth Partner – Life Sciences
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About The Role
As a Consulting Growth Partner within Life Sciences Consulting, you will make an impact by driving growth, profitability, and client success across Cognizant’s Life Sciences vertical. You will lead business development, shape differentiated consulting offerings, manage senior client relationships, and support high-quality delivery across a portfolio of accounts.
You will be a valued member of the Life Sciences Consulting team and work collaboratively with account teams, delivery, technology, markets and industry consulting colleagues to help clients accelerate innovation, improve patient outcomes, and drive sustainable growth.
In This Role, You Will
- Develop and execute growth strategies to expand Cognizant’s footprint across the Life Sciences sector, including pharmaceutical, biotech and MedTech accounts.
- Identify, qualify and pursue new consulting-led transformation opportunities, working closely with account teams on lead generation, proposal development, solution shaping and client negotiation.
- Own portfolio performance across assigned accounts, with responsibility for revenue growth, profitability, client satisfaction, delivery quality, timelines and budgets.
- Build trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders, including C-suite, VP and Director-level contacts, while aligning consulting offerings to client priorities.
- Provide Life Sciences domain leadership by identifying market and technology trends, developing differentiated offerings and points of view, and representing Cognizant through thought leadership activity.
- Mentor and develop consulting talent, supporting proposal qualification, costing and development while fostering a high-performance, growth-oriented consulting culture.
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Work model
We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position open to qualified applicants in London. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.
What You Need To Have To Be Considered
- Proven experience in Life Sciences consulting or senior industry leadership roles, ideally across pharmaceutical, biotech or MedTech environments.
- Demonstrated success in business development, P&L management, consulting sales, client relationship management and portfolio growth.
- Strong understanding of the Life Sciences value chain, with depth in one or more areas such as R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, clinical or commercial operations.
- Experience developing digital strategies, transformation roadmaps, consulting propositions and compelling client business cases.
- Strong executive presence, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior clients and internal leaders.
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These will help you stand out
- Ability to structure complex client business problems into actionable consulting engagements and technology-enabled solutions
- Strong commercial judgement, including the ability to analyse sales opportunities, qualify leads and shape profitable consulting proposals
- Experience developing differentiated Life Sciences offerings and points of view linked to emerging technology and industry trends
- A strong network across Life Sciences clients, industry forums or professional communities
- A leadership style that supports consulting talent development, collaboration and a growth mindset across teams.
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
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