Principal, Life Sciences - New York

Gate One • New York, NY

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About The Position

Gate One is growing its US consulting presence and client portfolio across Life Sciences. The Principal will help build the firm’s US Life Sciences business, working closely with its established Global Life Sciences practice. The work spans commercial, portfolio, and asset strategy; launch, growth, and lifecycle strategy; enterprise, functional, and operating model transformation; marketing, customer engagement, and content transformation; and data, AI, and technology-enabled transformation.

The Principal will lead complex strategy and transformation engagements, advising senior client stakeholders and leading blended Gate One and client teams from problem definition and strategy through execution and delivery. The role combines delivery leadership with commercial responsibility, including developing client relationships, shaping opportunities, leading proposals and bids, and growing accounts. The Principal will also help shape the practice’s propositions and capabilities, recruit and develop consultants, and contribute to firm-wide initiatives and culture.

The role is suited to an experienced consulting leader with Life Sciences sector credibility, substantial experience leading complex engagements and teams, and a record of business development and senior client relationship development. Candidates should bring depth in one or more Life Sciences strategy or transformation areas, alongside the breadth and adaptability to lead across multidisciplinary challenges. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Requirements

• Around 10 years of experience working within management consulting environments, or comparable experience in an industry role.
• Established senior-level experience, typically at Senior Manager or Principal level, or comparable, applied to Life Sciences strategy and/or transformation.
• Significant Life Sciences consulting experience and sector credibility, with a strong understanding of the sector’s commercial, regulatory, operational, and organizational complexity.
• Depth in one or more Life Sciences strategy or transformation areas, such as commercial or portfolio strategy, product launch and lifecycle management, operating model, customer engagement, organizational transformation, technology, data, or AI.
• A strong track record of leading complex transformation engagements and teams.
• Proven business development experience, including account growth, opportunity shaping, and proposal leadership.
• Experience developing trusted senior client relationships and translating those relationships into opportunities.
• Experience leading consulting teams and developing others.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and desire to help grow a fast-moving consulting business.
• Breadth and adaptability to apply expertise beyond a core specialty and lead teams across complex client challenges.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex strategy and/or transformation engagements from problem definition and strategy through execution support and delivery.
• Advise senior client stakeholders on strategic, commercial, organizational, and transformation challenges.
• Lead blended Gate One and client teams to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Provide senior oversight and quality assurance across engagements.
• Build and deepen senior client relationships, identifying and shaping new opportunities through existing networks and market credibility.
• Shape and lead opportunities across existing and prospective client accounts.
• Lead proposals, bids, and business development pursuits.
• Drive account growth through strategic relationship development and thought leadership.
• Support the growth of Gate One’s US Life Sciences presence through account development and market engagement.
• Translate market insight, client challenges, and delivery experience into Life Sciences propositions and market-facing points of view.
• Develop Gate One’s US Life Sciences propositions and capabilities, drawing on its global practice.
• Collaborate with US and global colleagues to bring Gate One capabilities to clients.
• Recruit, coach, and mentor consultants.
• Contribute to firm-wide initiatives, knowledge sharing, and capability building.
• Help shape Gate One’s culture and future growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed