Supply Chain Consultant - Pharma and Life Sciences - Director

Job Description

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentallychange the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcastersand high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.A career in our Strategy Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongsidebusiness leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the worlds largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. Wehelp create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage. We are one of the top three strategyconsultancies globally, bringing the very best strategic thinking to help clients solve their toughest problems, and build the differentiating capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. In joining, youll help develop strategies that translateinto action and help our clients power ahead in fiercely competitive global markets. As a part of Strategy&, you will support clients in developing their supply chain strategy by building best in class capabilities or transforming the way the company operates its supply chain function. As a Director within Strategy&s Supply Chain group, you are a leading thought-partner to clients, solving important problems and helping build our overall consulting supply chain strategy business. You will engage in client engagement through hypothesis ledproblem solving, building client relationships and managing personal development of the team. You will be working with consultants from across our global offices and you will have the opportunity to interact with leading international clients across industrieswith a focus on Pharma and Life Sciences. On projects, you will be the point-of-contact for senior client stakeholders and ensure both high quality delivery and further business development. Typical daily activities include structuring client problems, story-boarding project approaches to complex supplychain questions and coordinating multiple workstreams. Outside of engagements, Directors are considered mentors within the firm, acting as people-managers and coaches for Strategy& consultants. A significant part of your role will be coaching and developing our junior team. Engaging with the Strategy&, Life Sciencesand Supply Chain community is key to growing our firm; participating in thought leadership and building new initiatives based on industry and supply chain knowledge are some of the many ways Strategy& Directors continue to develop the business. Strategy& offers in-depth training across all consulting levels and will support your development throughout your career. Using a combination of formal training programs and on-the-job feedback learning, our consultants combine core analytical thinking withhypothesis-driven approaches to deliver tangible client deliverables. Key Deliverables

• Manage client engagements from supply chain strategy development to end-to-end deliverable creation.
• Use analytical, hypothesis-driven thinking to form and shape solutions to unstructured client supply chain problems.
• Lead on project proposals and developing new business opportunities in Supply Chain Strategy.
• Coach and development junior team members, to develop their career with a focus on knowledge of supply chain best practices and the Life Sciences Industry.
• Engage with the greater Strategy& Supply Chain and Life Sciences community to develop firm presence, including thought leadership.
• Manage the development and functioning of the project team, providing guidance and coaching to other members.
• Participate, as needed, with recruitment and act as a people manager to teams of between 5-10 people.

The Essentials

• Experience managing teams of minimum 3-5 individuals.
• The ability to think strategically about business and industry trends in Supply Chain Operations and use analytical, problem-solving techniques to break down issues .
• A track record of customer focused engagements either from a consulting background or from industry delivering quality work for clients, demonstrating an understanding of the clients professional standards and maintaining respectful client relationships.
• A track record in business development, commercial or sales.
• Third level qualification in a Business Related Discipline.
• 8+ years experience within supply chain management with a strategy/management consulting focus or senior level position of Director or above.