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We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.  

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. 

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. 

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defense and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.  

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life 

Job Description

Help shape the future of health

Health and life sciences (HLS) organizations are at the heart of a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. Pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, and healthcare organizations must respond to changing patient expectations, scientific advances, digital innovation, and increasing pressure to deliver better outcomes more efficiently.

At PA, our Operating Model team helps these organizations translate strategy into action by designing operating models, organizational structures, governance, capabilities, and ways of working that enable innovation, growth, and lasting impact. Combining business design, transformation, technology, and human-centered thinking, we help clients build organizations that are ready for the future of health.

What you'll do

As an Operating Model Consultant, you'll work alongside multidisciplinary teams to solve complex business challenges and help HLS clients transform how their organizations operate. You'll contribute to high-profile transformations while developing expertise in health and life sciences operating design and business transformation. Our OpModel Consultants are responsible for:

• Designing future-state operating models, including organizational structures, governance, capabilities, and ways of working.
• Analyzing complex business challenges and developing practical recommendations, business cases, and transformation roadmaps.
• Facilitating stakeholder discussions and workshops, working with clients from operational teams to executive leadership.
• Assessing organizational capabilities, operating models, and ways of working to identify opportunities for improved performance and transformation.

What you’ll gain

• Exposure to complex, high-impact client challenges across the health and life sciences sector.
• Opportunities to work alongside experts in healthcare, life sciences, strategy, transformation, technology, and innovation.
• A structured development pathway focused on business and operating model design.
• The opportunity to help shape our growing team while developing expertise across pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, and broader healthcare organizations.

Learn more about our  Operating Model team and the work we do in  Health &  Life Sciences on our website.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

Successful candidates will come from consulting, healthcare, life sciences, transformation, business analysis, organizational design, or strategy backgrounds.

• You have at minimum 2+ years of professional experience in consulting, health and life sciences, transformation, or a related industry role. We’re open to early-career professionals and career transitioners, but this is not an entry-level position.
• You’ve supported clinical, R&D, medical, regulatory, commercial, or enterprise transformation initiatives within pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, or healthcare organizations.
• You possess strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills. You consistently synthesize complex information into clear recommendations and insights.

• You’re known to be proactive and have a desire to solve difficult challenges with creativity and structure.

Experience in the following areas is a key indicator that you’ll be a strong match for our team:

• Pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, and patient-centered operating models and organizational design
• Clinical development, R&D, or commercial transformation
• Governance, capability, and process design
• Enterprise and technology-enabled transformation
• Change delivery, product ownership, or agile ways of working

Additional Information

Hybrid working:  Our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site 

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose-led meaningful work. 

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. 

Find out more about Life at PA  here . 

Benefits:  We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: 

• Group medical insurance 

• Health Savings Account with company match 

• Teladoc and informed Nurse line resources 

• Long term care plan 

• Group dental insurance 

• Vision plan 

• 401(k) Savings Plan with company profit sharing contribution 

• Commuter and Parking tax-savings benefit 

• 15 days paid vacation days with the opportunity to buy five additional days 

• 10 paid Holidays plus 10 paid sick days 

• Company and Voluntary income protection benefits 

• Gym and health incentive reimbursement 

• Pet and legal insurance Plans 

• Employee Assistance Plan 

• Annual performance-based bonus 

We’re committed to advancing equality.  We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. 

Adjustments or accommodations:  Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on  recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com  

Compensation:  In compliance with Colorado’s, New York’s, Illinois’s, & Massachusetts's Equal Pay Transparency Act, PA is required to provide a reasonable salary range for this role. This salary range is specific to Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois and is commensurate with experience, market data, applicant skills, internal equity and/or degrees/certifications. Salary Range: $115,800 - 121,900
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