Manager / Senior Manager Inhouse Consulting - Healthcare/Life Science (all genders, full-/part-time)
About this opportunity
Y our role:
We love consulting! Do you? As the company's internal consultancy, we tackle strategic projects across Healthcare, Life Science, Electronics, and Enabling Functions. Our diverse team of around 75 colleagues brings expertise from top-tier external consultancies, major industry players, and top academic institutions. With offices in Darmstadt (HQ), the Greater Boston Area (USA), and Singapore, we deliver high-impact projects to the company's most critical business challenges. Working directly with senior management, we lead local, regional, and global initiatives that drive organizational success. Beyond providing consulting services, we serve as a talent incubator for our company, with a considerable number of colleagues transitioning into key leadership or expert roles throughout the organization every year. Combining both business consulting and people development, we contribute to the company's success and accelerate your career!
You will work as part of project teams, providing business consulting across our sectors and business functions, before transitioning to the next exciting career step within our company after approximately 2-4 years.
In this role, you will primarily focus on the Healthcare and Life Science sectors, ideally leveraging your scientific background in fields such as medicine, pharmacy, biology or chemistry. Typical projects range from strategy development on sector, franchise or country level to more operational projects in various functions (R&D, Regulatory, Market Access, Operations, etc.). While your impact will be centered on these domains, you will have the flexibility to extend your influence on strategic initiatives beyond this scope as needed. As a colleague and trusted partner, you support projects from design to implementation, inspiring changes throughout the organization. You handle interactions with internal clients, guide project teams in flat team structures, and proactively identify and apply Data & AI opportunities.
Our approach differs from external consulting. We offer:
Empowerment: You own your projects from proposal development to steering committee presentations, and project closure. Project assignments are matched with your individual development goals and reflect your level of seniority. You will be able to directly experience the impact your work has on our business and patients worldwide.
Career development: Your leadership in challenging consulting projects will give you high visibility across our business sectors, allowing you to cultivate a deep internal network and ultimately positioning you for a successful transition into your next chapter within our company. While advancing your own professional growth, you simultaneously invest in mentoring and developing junior colleagues.
Flexibility of work: You will experience our high-impact culture with less business travel and more flexible work arrangements than in external consulting. Moreover, we run a hybrid workplace approach with a healthy mix of remote work and office presence.
Who you are:
Master's degree in medicine, pharmacy, biology, chemistry, or a related field; PhD or MBA is a plus
Work experience of 3–5 years in a leading management consulting firm, with a focus on the Healthcare and/or Life Sciences sectors (e.g., pharma, biotech, diagnostics, bioprocessing, biology, chemistry)
Functional expertise in at least one of the following areas: R&D, Regulatory, Market Access & Pricing, Operations, Marketing & Sales
Practical experience in applying Data & AI to solve business challenges, and the passion to continue developing skills in this field
Strong track record of leading projects across multiple functional areas with exposure to different hierarchy levels. More extensive leadership experience is a plus
Excellent communication and presentation skills, creativity, analytical strength, and strategic thinking
Proactive, self-motivated work approach and with a passion for working in teams
Proficiency in English and preferably also in German
Willingness to relocate to Rhine-Main-Area (e.g., Darmstadt, Frankfurt) to allow for regular office presence (2–3 days per week) for close collaboration and network building
Job Evaluation: AT Project Manager 3
Department: EF-IC-Inhouse Consulting
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