About the role
As an Engagement Manager, you will lead the delivery of strategic medical affairs engagements while driving business growth and developing the teams around you. This role spans our three core pillars, medical strategy and planning, evidence generation and organizational excellence and calls for a consultant who pairs strong technical grounding in real-world evidence (RWE), health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) and epidemiology modelling with the medical affairs understanding to put that evidence to strategic use.
Our clients, medical affairs leaders at leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies, increasingly expect partners who can do more than synthesise their thinking. They want technical depth they can trust, fluency in how medical affairs operates, challenge to their assumptions, and clear answers to "so what" and "now what." You will be central to meeting that expectation, with a primary client base in the U.S. and a global perspective on medical strategy, evidence generation, and drug development.
What role will I play on projects?
You will lead engagements end to end; scoping the approach, directing the work and owning the quality and strategic relevance of what we deliver. You will help clients address challenges across medical planning and strategy, integrated evidence generation, launch readiness, field medical optimization and operating-model design.
- Lead client engagements end to end across medical strategy, evidence generation and organizational excellence. You will oversee research, analysis and the design of deliverables such as strategic and medical plans, evidence roadmaps, operating models and client workshops.
- Bring technical depth where it matters. Direct or guide RWE study design, literature reviews and epidemiology work, applying the right level of methodological scrutiny so findings withstand expert review.
- Ground the work in medical affairs strategy. Connect evidence and analysis to clients' medical objectives evidence-generation planning, scientific communication, field medical and launch, demonstrating a clear understanding of how medical affairs creates value.
- Own the "so what" and "now what." Translate complex evidence and analysis into clear strategic implications and recommended actions; pressure-test interpretations and bring perspectives on what clients should do differently.
- Identify and pursue new business within existing and new clients; develop proposals, scope and cost engagements accurately and position the practice competitively at the executive level.
- Manage, mentor, and develop direct reports and project teams, setting clear expectations, building both technical and strategic capability, and reducing variability in how the team delivers.
- Manage workstreams and stakeholders, ensuring coordination, efficient communication and timely delivery against a high standard of quality.
- Contribute to the evolution of the practice by helping shape new capabilities and offerings across medical strategy, evidence generation and organizational excellence.
What skills and experience do I need for this role?
- Advanced degree strongly preferred - PhD, MD, MS/MBA combination or master's (MS, MPH, or equivalent) in a life-sciences, epidemiology, health economics, biostatistics or related discipline.
- 5-7 years of relevant professional experience, with a strong foundation in medical affairs, evidence generation or life-sciences strategy.
- Prior consulting experience is required - a proven ability to deliver impactful client work and manage engagements in a consulting environment.
- Strong understanding of medical affairs and how evidence, scientific strategy and field medical connect to broader business priorities and patient impact across the product lifecycle.
- Ability to interrogate evidence and translate it into strategy - connecting technical findings to clinical and commercial implications without losing rigour.
- Demonstrated business development ability - building and sustaining senior client relationships and converting opportunities into growth.
- Strong leadership and people-management skills, with a track record of managing and developing teams and direct reports.
- Superior written and verbal communication, able to distil complex science and evidence into clear, credible, executive-ready narratives for cross-functional audiences.
What we offer
- A competitive package and remuneration linked to performance
- A high-growth, entrepreneurial environment where you can create significant client and business value and forge your own path
- A platform for accelerated professional development and career growth with significant levels of responsibility and accountability, and the opportunity to be part of the US management team
- An opportunity to lead extraordinary teams that are driven by personal learning and client impact
The annual full time base salary range for this role is ($140,000 - $165,000). Specific compensation is determined through interviews and a review of relevant education, experience, training, skills, geographic location and alignment with market data. Additionally, positions may be eligible to receive a discretionary bonus as determined by bonus program guidelines. Prescient offers PTO and paid holidays, the terms of which are set forth in the program policies. All full-time employees also are eligible to participate in various benefit plans, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance and 401K; in each case in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.
