Senior Consultant

The Senior Consultant is responsible for leading projects and project teams with a high level of autonomy (senior level support and counsel will be provided as required). They have line management responsibilities for Analysts and Consultants.

The responsibilities include:

• Designs projects with the support or partnership (as necessary) of more senior team members.
• Demonstrates end-to-end project management capabilities in the process of successfully delivering projects to completion requiring only periodic high-level support/counsel, to time and budget, and uses internal and external resources effectively and efficiently.
• Manages own time and supervises timelines of team members and their deliverables across multiple projects.
• Defines and monitors project plans and assures project component alignment with overall project plan.
• Assesses and manages project risks and escalates issues.
• Maintains the highest standards of work and thinking and supports others to achieve quality standards.
• Actively engages with clients to create opportunities for new or follow-on business, and engages in strategic discussions, e.g. opportunities or risks, and manages client expectations.
• Drives internal development and supports/provides development and delivery of training (formal or informal).
• Engages in public speaking and presentation (e.g. of research, at conferences, careers events, etc.).
• Demonstrates strategic insight, discusses strategic project decisions with clients and project teams, and gains the confidence of others by their authoritative communication.
• Line manages Analysts/ Consultants and supports them with their professional development.
• Encourages the development of their project team, including project-led learning, identifying areas for development, communicating these to line manager and assisting with development plans.
• Participates in recruitment of junior team members and peers.
• Leads on publication of papers in high-impact peer-reviewed journals and conference presentations and oversees junior members of staff in this task.
• Acts as a mentor promoting high professional ethics/technical standards, demonstrating Aquarius’ values in their work and behaviours (i.e., critical, curious, creative, collaborative, client focused).
• Actively contributes to a culture of collaboration and innovation within team and acts as a role model.

Requirements

Qualifications

• PhD/MSc in Health Economics, Data Science, Business, Mathematics, Biostatistics, Public Health, or related quantitative/qualitative field, or BSc/BA with equivalent experience and skills
• Previous and proven post-graduate experience
• Fluency in English (written/oral) essential

Experience and skills

Required:

• Extensive experience in health, healthcare, and medical decision problems
• Designing and conducting quantitative analyses, interpreting results and presenting findings
• Designing and conducting literature reviews and synthesising/summarising evidence
• Strong numeracy skills including manipulating data and conducting analyses in Microsoft Excel
• Technical writing skills (peer-reviewed publications, proposals/grants, reports)
• Ability to develop and maintain healthy and productive relationships with clients, collaborators and the internal team
• Experience in project management and delivering results successfully to deadlines; demonstrated ability to prioritise and lead a team
• Experience in managing junior team members

Desirable

• Experience of research in commercial healthcare markets
• Knowledge and experience of health economic evaluations, economic modelling and costing health services
• Statistical/econometric analysis and interpretation: designing analyses, interpreting results, and using at least one of the following software/languages: R, STATA, SAS, SPSS
• Experience in conducting qualitative and/or market research, e.g. interviewing, and any qualitative software, e.g. NVivo, Atlas, etc.
• Programming in any language, e.g. Java, C/C++, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of the UK health care system and data sources
• Awareness of UK/International health policy
• Experience working in a consultancy or as a consultant
• Experience of HTA submissions

Person specification

• Highly motivated, ambitious, enthusiastic and committed to making an impact in healthcare
• Excellent work ethic and integrity
• Commercial interest and awareness of healthcare markets and interventions
• A strong client focus, and demonstrable capability to build relationships and negotiate with them
• Ability to network
• A natural communicator: excellent communication skills (written and oral) with people across all levels of expertise
• Good presentation writing and delivery skills
• Able to work independently and in a team
• The capacity to develop strong relationships
• People management skills and strong leadership potential: evidence of positions of responsibility and have intuition for leading a team and stepping up to a challenge
• Multitasking and time management skills and experience
• Able to work under pressure to tight timelines
• Flexible and able to adapt easily and innovate
• Creative, and solutions-focused
• A problem-solver: can demonstrate how you’ve face into a challenge and how you have diagnosed and then solved the problem
• Detail-orientated
• Curious and interested in acquiring new knowledge and skills
• Demonstrates ability to self-reflect and the willingness to develop to address areas of weakness

Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Private health care with AXA (once passed 6 month probation)
• Pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Personal Development Allowance (£1000 per annum)