Research Director / Client Account Co-Lead – Life Sciences Strategic Insights – London / Hybrid – £70k - £90k DOE

The Company

My client is a mid sized strategic research consultancy who work across a range of sectors. They’ve an impressive list of retained clients and have won MRS innovation awards for their work. Their niche life sciences team work on a truly varied array of projects, predominantly working with scientists to understand what makes them tick. They work with biopharma businesses, CRO’s, manufactures, academic institutes – the list is endless. What really sets them apart is their internal expertise in this space – their client satisfaction rating is second to none.

The Role

The Client Account Co-Lead is an opportunity to someone to support and ultimately lead the life science business. There is huge potential for future growth with responsibilities including:

• A mix of hands on research and commercial strategy:
• Research work will involve running projects with generally more of a quantitative leaning. Think conjoints, segmentations etc. The projects involve very hard to recruit individuals – true specialists in their field so you’ll need to be comfortable working with a real variety of stakeholders
• Commercially, you’ll be tasked with growing existing accounts and expanding into new businesses. You’ll work closely with the team on client strategy and how to put together compelling proposals
• You’ll also have a say in broader business strategy including financial targets, building a team, and implementing appropriate support functions

You

To be successful in this role you’ll need the following experience:

• Life sciences/healthcare knowledge and an understanding of international research
• Experience covering both qualitative and quantitative methods, ideally with a bit of a quant specialism
• A track record in developing business and running client accounts
• Creativity – both in method design but also in coming up with innovative ways to help solve client problems

What should you do next?

This RD / Client Account Lead role is one not to be missed; it encompasses the opportunity to work with a growing international company. To discuss this role further or to find out about other market research / strategic consulting jobs I’m currently working on, please get in touch or hit apply to submit your current CV.

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