Senior Consultant, Life Sciences - Pharma Drug Development

Senior Consultant, Life Sciences - Pharma Drug Development

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Base pay range: $/yr - $/yr.

We provide comprehensive compensation based on experience, skills, and qualifications.

For more than three decades, premier organizations have trusted IPM to lead the successful execution of their strategic portfolios and critically important initiatives. Headquartered in Chicago with offices in Boston, Parsippany, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, IPM has led more than 5,000 projects for over 500 clients across a broad spectrum of industries. Our clients range from Fortune 100 companies to start‑ups.

We are a certified “Great Place to Work” company and have been named to the Great Place to Work list of “Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services”.

Our Senior Consultants are our full‑time employees and the competitive advantage that sets us apart from the rest.

IPM partners with clients in the pharmaceutical industry.

• We lead, at the core team level, product development projects from pre‑clinical R&D through commercialization, including planning for regulatory, clinical, and commercial strategies and processes, and product lifecycle management.
• We lead the creation or improvement of operational processes, harmonizing regulatory and quality systems, and building project, program, and portfolio management capabilities.

As a Senior Consultant, you will partner with client leadership and delivery teams to lead project and program planning and execution across various functions, driving projects and programs to achieve mission‑critical outcomes for our pharmaceutical industry clients. At each new engagement you will leverage continuous exposure and experience from working within a variety of clients and project types.

• Lead late stage product development and submissions
• Implement or optimize project management frameworks through the use of current best practices and tools to improve the team’s ability to execute and meet their goals.
• Leverage current industry best‑practice tools, such as MS Project, Smartsheets, Planisware, etc., to develop and drive integrated project plans, aligning project tactics with strategy.
• Manage projects within established scope, schedule, and budget while exceeding IPM project management standards.
• Participate and drive discussions to develop and document high‑level strategies for accomplishing specific project objectives.
• Establish, maintain, lead, and guide high‑performance project teams, serving as the project advocate within the client organization.
• Provide project/program management oversight to assigned IPM consultants, as needed.
• Contribute to the generation of business opportunities via relationship building.
• Participate in an IPM service line Center of Excellence (CoE).
• Support content marketing and business development proposal and project activities.
• Complete activities that promote professional development, including involvement in professional organizations and leading internal initiatives.

• The ideal candidate for this Senior Consultant position will possess the following:
• Bachelor’s degree in a science, engineering, or a related field. Advanced degrees are a plus.
• A minimum of 12 years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical industry related to full product life cycle product development and product management with 7 years of professional project management experience.
• Knowledge and application of a disciplined project management process (Six Sigma and Project Management Professional certifications are a plus).
• Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills to effectively communicate and build relationships with a broad spectrum of audiences at all organizational levels.

• Engaging culture: IPM has a caring, nurturing culture with a transparent communication approach and culture‑building and team‑building events, both regional and company‑wide.
• Inclusion:
  Diversity, Equity…