Job Description

Make Your Mark at Ipsos

Healthcare Advisory, is a specialist consulting practice within Ipsos which partners with pharma and med tech clients to solve strategy challenges across the product lifecycle; often working closely with Market Research, Market Access and RWE teams at Ipsos.

Do you have a passion for healthcare consulting and strategic problem-solving? Are you a leader who can inspire a team to drive innovation and growth? If your expertise includes leveraging AI in strategy consulting, this Head of Advisory role could be just what you've been searching for.

About the role:

Join Ipsos as a pivotal member of our Healthcare Advisory team, where your leadership will enhance our consulting marketplace position. You will be responsible for integrating strategy consulting with evidence generation, managing P&L for sustainable growth, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. This dynamic leadership role offers the chance to drive significant impact within the pharma and med-tech sectors, as you develop strategic approaches and major project proposals that elevate our profile globally.

About you:

Essential skills:

• Proven and experienced in delivering sustainable business growth, a strategic thinker, and a strong people leader.
• Demonstrable experience in strategy consulting, with a focus on early pipeline planning, launch excellence, and portfolio strategy.
• Proven track record in delivering sustainable business growth and managing P&L.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a knack for building relationships.
• Ability to collaborate cross functionally with a good understanding of primary market research.

Desirable skills:

• A presence in the market through social media or industry platforms.
• Experience with AI tools and methods in market research or consulting roles.

Behaviours:

• Role models leadership behaviours and motivates teams to accomplish ambitious goals.
• Ingrains a culture of belonging and promotes an inclusive work environment.
• Commercial acumen
• Business Thinker
• Strategic Awareness
• Opportunity spotter
• Analytical thinking
• Resilience, flexibility and agility
• Creative thinking
• Motivation and self-awareness
• Empathy and active listening
• Curiosity and lifelong learning
• Service orientation and customer service
• Talent Management
• Leadership and social influence

Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.

We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.

Ready to have an impact? Apply now!

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!