Manager and Senior Manager in Life Sciences R&D Management Consulting

We believe that Quality is the lifeblood of a Life Science organization. It is the root of the business, not just there for compliance but to support the growth and healthiness of the whole organisation. To grow effectively and manage the network of cross-functional, branching processes well, you need not only connected technology systems but also a Quality culture. Quality is a living breathing part of the organisation, tended by trained and passionate staff throughout the business, driving operational excellence with the ultimate goal to benefit the patient.

Manager and Senior Manager in Life Sciences R&D Management Consulting

• You will help sell, lead and, together with the team, deliver high-impact projects engaging with senior stakeholders from high-profile clients in the life sciences industry.
• You will help develop new ideas and propositions to share with clients to secure new and expand existing projects. The projects typically include the design and implementation of new technologies, quality system processes, operating models, digital strategies and ways of working across R&D, manufacturing / supply chain and commercial. They also include driving business performance through changing quality culture / mindsets, improving processes and procedures, benefitting from process automation and enabling insights from advanced analytics and AI. The outcomes we help clients deliver are accelerating development, manufacturing and commercial timelines, exploiting internal and external data through advanced analytics and machine learning, and improving quality and compliance amongst many others.
• You will cover functions all across R&D, manufacturing and commercial, with particular focus on quality management / assurance, regulatory affairs, product safety and medical affairs. You will also work closely with our consulting teams covering commercial, market access and other functions across the life sciences value chain.
• You will work with international clients and we will give you the opportunity to gain experience working in multi-cultural teams within Switzerland and abroad.
• You will collaborate with PwC's global network of life sciences experts and have access to our market-leading propositions, methodologies, assets and training materials.
• You will work in a fast-growing team. The environment is driven by respect, collegiality, and strong team spirit (winning as team not as an individual).

• You have a bachelor's or master's degree in a science-related discipline plus around 6 years' experience working in life sciences, either as a consultant or within R&D, manufacturing or commercial at a life sciences company.
• In consulting, you have experience in running large transformation projects and developing new propositions and work. In the industry, you have been exposed to many of the key steps of improving quality in regulated business functions.
• You have had exposure in innovations in technology/cloud/RWD/NLP that drove/could drive business performance, simplification and/or patient centricity in the health industries and markets.
• You have had exposure to some of the following areas: GxP, data privacy/protection, digital strategy development, operating model design, quality system design/improvement/maintenance, process improvement, technology implementation and digital and analytics technologies in a GxP-regulated environment.
• You are a passionate team player during worktime and enjoy socialising with clients and colleagues after work.
• You are fluent in English and ideally have knowledge of German and/or French and you have travel mobility to serve international clients.

Francisca Richter

PwC Switzerland is the leading audit and advisory company in Switzerland. As an independent member of the international PwC network, we help organisations and individuals to deliver solutions and sustained outcomes in the areas of assurance, advisory and tax services.