Strategy and Transformation Associate Consultant - London, United Kingdom - ZS Associates

ZS Associates

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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London, United Kingdom; Cambridge, United Kingdom

United Kingdom
Insights & Analytics
Strategy Insights & Planning
20130

ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on transforming global healthcare and beyond, our most valuable asset is our people. Here you'll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping solutions from start to finish. At ZS, we believe that making an impact demands a different approach; and that's why here your ideas elevate actions, and here you'll have the freedom to define your own path and pursue cutting-edge work. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business including portfolio strategy, customer insights, research and development, operational and technology transformation, marketing strategy and many more. If you dare to think differently, join us, and find a path where your passion can change lives.
Our most valuable asset is our people.

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ZS we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences and belief systems—the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are and make us unique. We believe your personal interests, identities, and desire to learn are part of your success here. Learn more about our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces, obtaining the resources they need to thrive, and sharing the messages they are passionate about. Learn more
ZS's Strategy & Transformation solution area works with clients using our core consulting skills and frameworks to make the right strategic choices and drive stronger execution of strategies for lasting impact and value creation. We support clients who have broad, strategic mandates and support them from strategy through to implementation and transformation. We offer value to the client by linking strategy and implementation in a seamless fashion, drawing on ZS' broad but also deep expertise along this continuum.
Associate Consultant
Strategy and Transformation
Associate Consultants support project teams or lead components of larger projects. As an Associate Consultant you will possess excellent unstructured problemsolving skills as well as strong analytical, project management and communication skills. You will work with a variety of clients on a broad range of project workstreams.

Example projects might include:

Identifying key levers for growth for a business unit head in a global pharma company
Partnering with a global commercial function to define departmental vision, operating model, and structure
Defining a new gotomarket model for a Medical Device company, considering how digital channels can help to improve the customer experience
Running a transformation management office for a global pharma company to implement a vision for patientcentric customer engagement

What you'll do:

Develop understanding of the broader biopharma and MedTech landscape, including technologies, platforms, and assets in development
Identify at speed critical key client issues and develop, shape, and inform hypotheses in ambiguous and unstructured environments
Lead discussions with clients on both clientspecific matters and issues affecting the broader healthcare landscape
Structure and develop client deliverables in PowerPoint, including telling the story with supporting analysis in a clear and effective manner
Design and execute qualitative and/or quantitative analyses to test and support or refine hypotheses (for both reasonable quick estimates and precise indepth models)
Drive project task execution by ensuring progress, organizing project data and coordinating team meetings and guiding and teaching more junior team members
Integrate multiple information sources (primary, secondary and analytical research) to inform complex problems
Participate in presentation and communication of results to clients and internal teams
Provide thought leadership and innovation within projects and practice areas and contribute to internal firm activities advancing ZS's capabilities

What you'll bring:

25 years of relevant professional experience in a strategy consulting role
Demonstrated experience in unstructured problem solving. You will be confident in identifying and testing solutions in ambiguous and ever evolving client landscapes
High motivation, client service orientation, good work ethic, maturity and personal initiative
Effective oral and written communication skills that enable personal impact with seniorlevel decision makers
Impeccable attention to detail, with a qualityfocused mindset
Analytic problemsolving skills, with a creative and innovative outlook
ZS is a global consulting firm; fluency in English is required

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