Associate Consultant - Real World Evidence

Overview / About us:

Lumanity is dedicated to improving patient health by accelerating and optimizing access to medical advances.  We partner with life sciences companies around the world to generate evidence to demonstrate the value of their product, translate the science and data into compelling product narratives, and enable commercial decisions that position these products for success in the market. We do this through strategic and complimentary areas of focus: Asset Optimization and Commercialization, Value, Access, and Outcomes, Medical Strategy and Communications, and Real-World Evidence.

Our Real-World Evidence division enables our clients to maximize their product’s value potential by leveraging real world data and insights to generate clear and powerful evidence and strategies to support and navigate the path to market.

Lumanity is currently building its Real World Evidence (RWE) Global Practice from scratch in a mixture of “buy and build”, leveraging existing expertise in HEOR, market access, and medical affairs. This new RWE Global Practice will support data analytics and RWE generation for a variety of non-interventional studies, including: treatment pathways, patient journeys, drug utilization studies, target drug effectiveness, outcomes research, cost of illness, burden of disease and safety, as well as a number of advanced techniques and methods. The RWE team will also provide RWE-related consulting and advisory services, dubbed “RWE Data Luminary Consulting”. RWE Data Luminary Consulting refers to RWE-related projects which do not necessarily require access to patient data, such as strategic evidence planning or data landscaping.  Data Luminary services are a key component of Lumanity’s RWE core capabilities and go-to-market strategy.  

As an Associate Consultant (AC) within the Global RWE Data Luminary Consulting team, you will be central to the growth and development of the Lumanity RWE team, working within a dynamic and innovative environment on a wide range of client projects and internal initiatives. You will work on exciting projects for diverse clients, both independently and within a team, and will be expected to lead workstreams within small and mid-sized projects. Joining a start-up team with high ambitions, your problem-solving and communication skills will be used from day one.

The Lumanity AC plays an integral role in delivering against client and business accountabilities, being relied upon to deliver consistently high quality work. The majority of an AC’s time will be spent on client projects, business development (BD) and internal initiatives such as Thought Leadership, contributing to the development and growth of the RWE Team. ACs are relied on to provide well-constructed desk research, analysis and report writing. They will often be called upon to assist and lead project management tasks and attend client meetings/workshops, and will support more experienced members of the consulting team contributing to client management, process and critical thinking.

Day-to-day duties and responsibilities include:

• Support and/or lead clearly defined workstreams independently with guidance from senior team members as part of client engagements
• Support development of key client deliverables (e.g., PowerPoint presentations, Excel models, project reports)
• Contribute to the preparation and execution of client meetings & workshops
• Act as the project ‘fact manager’ and build team and cross-practice relationships
• Support outreach to and engagement with existing and potential partners (including data organisations and research institutions)
• Apply innovative methodology and approaches to solve complex problems
• Merge scientific thinking and business knowledge to identify issues, evaluate options, and implement solutions
• Contribute to internal initiatives geared towards the development of Data Luminary client offerings and the growth of the RWE Consulting team
• Proactively develop knowledge of consulting methodologies, observational research, and the real-world data market through the delivery of engagements and participation in formal and informal learning opportunities
• Support sales opportunities and proposal development

Skills and Requirements include:

• BSc or MSc degree in life sciences, business or related field
• 1+ year’ relevant experience in life science consulting
• A good understanding of drug development processes and strategies
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills
• Proficient at using Microsoft Office suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
• Knowledge of RWE industry, trends, market needs and data landscape, across both Europe and USA (not essential)
• Experience in RWE consulting and/or RWE study design and delivery (not essential)
• Coding skills (e.g., SAS, R, C++, Python) & statistical expertise (not essential)

The ideal candidate will have the following attributes:

• Is an enthusiastic and self-driven collaborator able to work on a wide range of projects and internal initiatives
• Proactively takes ownership to deliver own objectives in the business and on project teams
• Able to consistently deliver high-quality work and meet deadlines
• Able to articulate and repeatedly demonstrate basic consulting principles, including effective visual slide-making and story-telling
• Possesses strong analytical skills, problem solving mind-set and ability to think critically and creatively to break down complex problems into solvable steps
• Listens well, starting with a desire to understand the client problem, not jumping prematurely to solutions
• Is constantly curious, applying good context and content questions to help clients dig under the surface, and visualize the problem
• Is comfortable in dealing with ambiguous business challenges through appropriate use of structured thinking to clarify the choices to be made
• Naturally seeks to understand in order to confidently develop an opinion about the problem based on solid thinking and facts and suggest potential solutions
• Feels comfortable and confident to challenge and be challenged

We offer our employees a comprehensive benefits package that focuses on what matters to you – health and well-being, personal finances, professional development, and a healthy work/life balance.

• Competitive salary plus bonus scheme
• Private healthcare
• Group Pension scheme
• 25 paid days holiday + statutory holidays
• Access to Season Ticket Loan scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Electric Vehicle Scheme