Ipsos
Associate Principal-Healthcare Advisory
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We are a leading global market and social research company, enabling organisations to make smarter, bolder, and faster decisions.
Are you an experienced healthcare consultant who thrives on solving complex strategic challenges? Do you enjoy partnering with life sciences clients to influence critical business decisions, shape healthcare strategy, and create meaningful impact? If you're looking for a role where you can combine commercial thinking, client leadership, and consulting expertise, we'd love to hear from you.
About the Role
Ipsos Healthcare Advisory (HCA) is Ipsos' specialist life sciences consulting practice, helping pharmaceutical, biotech and medtech clients navigate strategic challenges across the product lifecycle. Working at the intersection of insight, evidence and consulting, we partner with clients to deliver practical, commercially relevant recommendations that drive better decisions.
As an Associate Principal, you'll act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, leading complex advisory engagements from problem definition through to delivery. You'll bring strategic thinking, healthcare expertise and commercial judgement to help clients tackle challenges ranging from launch strategy and stakeholder engagement to healthcare transformation and growth opportunities.
You'll also play a key role in growing client relationships, developing new business opportunities, contributing to thought leadership, and coaching junior team members. This is an exciting, mid-career opportunity to join a growing healthcare consulting practice where you'll have significant influence on both client outcomes and the future development of the team.
About You
Essential Skills
- Experience in healthcare strategy, management consulting or healthcare advisory.
- Strong understanding of the healthcare ecosystem and life sciences industry.
- Proven ability to develop strategic recommendations from complex and diverse evidence sources.
- Experience leading client engagements independently from proposal through delivery.
- Strong commercial acumen and experience supporting business development activities.
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Outstanding communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
- Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary project teams.
- Proficiency in AI use and adoption to enhance day-to-day consulting and problem-solving activities.
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Desirable Skills
- Experience in commercial strategy, market access, medical affairs, healthcare transformation or patient pathway design.
- Experience contributing to thought leadership and proposition development.
- Experience mentoring or coaching junior consultants.
- Experience using AI-enabled tools and methodologies within consulting, healthcare strategy or insight environments.
Behaviours
- Entrepreneurial Spirit
- Curiosity
- Collaboration
- Client First
- Strategic and analytical thinking
- Commercial judgement
- Leadership and influence
- Adaptability and resilience
- Coaching and talent development
- Relationship building and stakeholder management
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.
We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications. Please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.
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We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success and are proud to be a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer.
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Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!
The Healthcare Service Line works with Pharmaceutical, bio-tech, medical device manufacturers and technology companies throughout the project lifecycle from early stage strategy, to launch of a new product, to product optimization. In addition to custom research, the healthcare Service Line also works on therapeutic centers of expertise in Oncology, Autoimmune, Virology and more.
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