Engagement Manager (Medical Strategy & RWE)

Prescient Healthcare Group•Jersey City, NJ

5d•$140,000 - $165,000

About The Position

Prescient is a specialist global consultancy focused on the biopharmaceutical industry, operating across Commercial, Medical, Competitive Strategy, and Value, Pricing & Access. They deliver intelligence, evidence, and strategic consulting to leading biopharma organizations worldwide, supporting clients throughout the product lifecycle. The Medical practice focuses on Medical Strategy & Planning, Evidence Generation Strategy, and Organizational Excellence, aiming to strengthen medical impact and build future-ready medical organizations. The Engagement Manager role within the Medical practice involves leading strategic medical affairs engagements, driving business growth, and developing teams. This position requires a strong grounding in real-world evidence (RWE), health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), and epidemiology modeling, combined with medical affairs expertise to strategically apply this evidence. The role supports clients, primarily medical affairs leaders at pharmaceutical and biotech companies, who seek technical depth, fluency in medical affairs operations, and clear strategic guidance. The primary client base is in the U.S., with a global perspective on medical strategy, evidence generation, and drug development.

Requirements

Advanced degree strongly preferred - PhD, MD, MS/MBA combination or master’s (MS, MPH, or equivalent) in a life-sciences, epidemiology, health economics, biostatistics or related discipline.
5–7 years of relevant professional experience, with a strong foundation in medical affairs, evidence generation or life-sciences strategy.
Prior consulting experience is required - a proven ability to deliver impactful client work and manage engagements in a consulting environment.
Strong understanding of medical affairs and how evidence, scientific strategy and field medical connect to broader business priorities and patient impact across the product lifecycle.
Ability to interrogate evidence and translate it into strategy - connecting technical findings to clinical and commercial implications without losing rigour.
Demonstrated business development ability - building and sustaining senior client relationships and converting opportunities into growth.
Strong leadership and people-management skills, with a track record of managing and developing teams and direct reports.
Superior written and verbal communication, able to distil complex science and evidence into clear, credible, executive-ready narratives for cross-functional audiences.

Responsibilities

Lead engagements end to end; scoping the approach, directing the work and owning the quality and strategic relevance of what we deliver.
Help clients address challenges across medical planning and strategy, integrated evidence generation, launch readiness, field medical optimization and operating-model design.
Oversee research, analysis and the design of deliverables such as strategic and medical plans, evidence roadmaps, operating models and client workshops.
Direct or guide RWE study design, literature reviews and epidemiology work, applying the right level of methodological scrutiny so findings withstand expert review.
Connect evidence and analysis to clients’ medical objectives evidence-generation planning, scientific communication, field medical and launch, demonstrating a clear understanding of how medical affairs creates value.
Translate complex evidence and analysis into clear strategic implications and recommended actions; pressure-test interpretations and bring perspectives on what clients should do differently.
Identify and pursue new business within existing and new clients; develop proposals, scope and cost engagements accurately and position the practice competitively at the executive level.
Manage, mentor, and develop direct reports and project teams, setting clear expectations, building both technical and strategic capability, and reducing variability in how the team delivers.
Manage workstreams and stakeholders, ensuring coordination, efficient communication and timely delivery against a high standard of quality.
Contribute to the evolution of the practice by helping shape new capabilities and offerings across medical strategy, evidence generation and organizational excellence.