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Business Consultant - R&D

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in Life Sciences Consulting (Business or Management Consulting preferred)
  • Proven expertise in Clinical Data/Operations, Regulatory or Pharmacovigilance/Drug Safety
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher
  • Strong mindset for both quantitative and qualitative reasoning

Responsibilities

  • Lead project workstreams from end-to-end, ensuring high-quality design and delivery of customer solutions
  • Solve complex problems for Life Sciences leaders, leveraging Veeva’s unique data and software insights
  • Mentor and manage Associate Consultants, overseeing their work and professional development
  • Drive practice growth by contributing to business development and internal IP creation

Key facts

Other skills

  • Analytical Skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Communication

About the company

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Veeva Systems

Computer Software / SaaS

Veeva Systems Inc. is a leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva has more than 875 customers, ranging from the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Veeva is growing to 10,000 employees by 2025, so visit the Jobs section for open positions and remember that correspondence to new applicants and existing candidates will only come from an official @veeva.com email address.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size5001 - 10000

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Job description

Veeva is building the industry cloud for Life Sciences through software, data, AI, and Business Consulting working together. Learn more about our products, vision and values, and status as a public benefit corporation on our website.
 
Consulting is changing, and we’re not like other firms. Veeva Business Consulting was launched in 2019 and has grown quickly and organically to a global organization of over 400 people. Our team is focused on making the life sciences industry more efficient and effective through software, data, and consulting working together.
 
We expect significant growth in Business Consulting as we look towards 2030, and are looking for great people to make it happen.

The Role

As a Consultant in our R&D Business Consulting practice, you will help customers bring treatments to patients faster by transforming how they work with Technology, Data, and AI. You will focus on reshaping operating models, driving organizational change, and measuring tangible business value.
 
R&D Business Consulting supports biopharma, medtech, animal and consumer health customers with solving business problems across the R&D value chain but also specifically within Clinical, Pharmacovigilance and Regulatory domains.
 
You will be part of a global team delivering meaningful and high-impact projects with a variety of organisations from Top 20 Pharma to small/mid-sized organisations.

What You’ll Do
  • Lead project workstreams from end-to-end, ensuring the high-quality design and delivery of customer solutions
  • Solve complex problems for Life Sciences leaders, leveraging Veeva’s unique data and software insights
  • Mentor and manage Associate Consultants, overseeing their work and professional development within your workstream
  • Drive practice growth by contributing to business development and internal IP creation

  • Requirements
  • Experience: 3+ years in Life Sciences Consulting (Business or Management Consulting preferred)
  • Domain Knowledge: Proven expertise in Clinical Data/Operations, Regulatory or Pharmacovigilance/Drug Safety
  • Analytical Rigor: A strong mindset for both quantitative and qualitative reasoning
  • Communication: Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly to senior stakeholders
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher
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  • Nice to Have
  • Knowledge of Veeva products
  • Experience delivering SaaS or Tech-enabled consulting solutions

  • The Process

    Our process is different than most. It is designed to be fast, efficient and respectful. Here are the steps:

  • You submit your resume, short cover letter of questions, and take a personality assessment
  • Within 5-10 business days, we will notify you via email if we would like to go to the next step or not
  • The next step is a 45-minute interview with a leader of the practice, followed by a job history interview and case exercise. You will have one week to prepare for the case exercise
  • Within one week after the case exercise, we will give you an offer or let you know that we do not wish to move forward

  • Perks & Benefits
  • Compensation: Highly competitive salary and equity in Veeva
  • Growth: Unrivalled career progression in a fast-growing, global team
  • Flexibility: Veeva is a Work Anywhere company. You can work from home or the office on any given day
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    BCRD

    Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.
     
    As an equal opportunity employer, Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.
     
    If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at talent_accommodations@veeva.com.

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