Senior Consultant, Life Sciences

West Monroe • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

West Monroe is hiring a Senior Consultant with Life Sciences experience and interest to work with clients as a member of its Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice. The practice supports the full healthcare and life sciences value chain—including payers, providers, medtech, biopharma, digital health, and other segments—with expertise in operations, technology, data, transformation, and M&A.

The role works directly with clients to implement processes and technology that support business value and process efficiency across business and technical functions. It also contributes to project management, business development, and practice development. The position requires the ability to travel and commute locally and nationally up to 60%.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• At least 4 years of experience in a team-based consulting environment and working directly with external clients, demonstrating an understanding of healthcare industry operations.
• At least 2 years of experience in one or more of the following: organizational transformation, process improvement, product development, or managing teams and workstreams.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently, exercise sound judgment, and work productively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to handle multiple priorities.
• Ability to develop a sense of urgency and respond appropriately.
• Experience working collaboratively on large initiatives.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to work with clients and present to C-level executives.
• Good presentation and business development skills, including the ability to assist in selling work to clients.
• Experience developing work plans, project scopes, and pricing estimates.
• Strong project management and leadership skills to manage and drive concurrent small- to large-scale projects for one team.
• Good interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills, as well as customer relations skills.
• Ability to travel and commute locally and nationally up to 60%.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with clients to implement processes and technology that support business value and process efficiency across business and technical functions.
• Work with business owners to create new business processes.
• Facilitate client workshops focused on the future state of the healthcare industry, and design future-state business processes and requirements.
• Support detailed requirements gathering.
• Lead package evaluations against industry-leading practices in the healthcare industry.
• Interface with all levels of management internally and at client sites.
• Develop client-ready communications to facilitate decision-making, communicate status, mitigate risk, or resolve issues.
• Participate in creating project deliverables, including project plans, implementation plans, communication plans, and financial models.
• Work with engagement management to reduce project risk.
• Work with West Monroe team members and clients to establish effective joint project teams.
• Assist in developing project approaches and proposals as part of the business development process.
• Assist in developing tools, methodologies, and techniques used by West Monroe on client assignments as part of practice development.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Basic life insurance
• Company 401(k) plan
• Employee stock ownership program
• Eligibility for annual bonuses
• Unlimited flexible time off
• Ten paid holidays per calendar year
• Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave upon hire

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior