Senior Consultant (Healthcare & Life Sciences)
About The Position
We are seeking talented healthcare and life sciences (HLS) professionals interested in helping generate strategies and implementation plans that drive a greater future for our clients. As a Senior Consultant at Kenway, you will own meaningful workstreams, engage with a diverse set of stakeholders, and solve complex problems firsthand. From early in your tenure, you’ll lead workstreams and produce solutions that target the latest business and technical challenges companies are facing today. Senior Consultants at Kenway are responsible for owning workstreams and smaller projects end-to-end with minimal oversight—proactively managing timelines, escalating risks early, and ensuring client needs are met with high-quality, hands-on delivery. Senior Consultants are also expected to build strong client and team relationships, support account growth and proposals, and coach analysts and consultants as they develop. Within Kenway’s HLS vertical, Senior Consultants are expected to demonstrate, deploy, and deepen proficiency delivering across the healthcare ecosystem, inclusive of life sciences (biopharma, biotech, medtech), health-tech, provider, payer, and related industries.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience delivering complex business or technology initiatives
- Healthcare or life sciences strategy consulting experience is preferred, but a combination of strategy consulting and healthcare or life sciences industry experience will be considered
- Bachelor’s degree, with advanced degrees or certifications in related health, science, or engineering fields preferred
- Working understanding of one or more of the unique value chains across the HLS ecosystem, including, but not limited to, the following: Life Sciences: R&D, Medical Affairs, Commercialization; Provider: Clinical workflows, Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), Patient Access/Engagement; Payer: Member Experience, Claims Processing, Care Management, Value-Based Care (VBC); Health-Tech/Telehealth: Virtual care delivery platforms, digital front doors, and interoperability standards
- Familiarity with industry-standard enterprise applications and platforms, such as Biopharma/Commercial (Veeva CRM/Vault, LIMS, CTMS), Healthcare/EHR (Epic, Cerner), or Enterprise Cloud (Salesforce Health Cloud, AWS/Azure Data platforms)
- Hands-on experience with data analysis, process mapping, and business intelligence tools (e.g., SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, etc.) applied to healthcare or life sciences datasets
- Understanding of regulatory, compliance, and data integrity frameworks (e.g., GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA) within project delivery
- Knowledge of core consulting skills, including, but not limited, to strategic planning and road-mapping, program governance, risk management, stakeholder management, financial and resource allocation, and change management
- Experience contributing within a project-based delivery model
- Willingness to travel up to 50% based on client needs
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degrees or certifications in related health, science, or engineering fields
Responsibilities
- Own workstreams or small projects end-to-end with minimal oversight, proactively managing timelines, escalating risks early, and ensuring client needs are addressed promptly
- Deliver hands-on, high-quality analytical and solution work across business and technology initiatives
- Apply industry, business, and technical knowledge to solve client challenges and achieve workstream objectives
- Demonstrate sound judgment and the courage to challenge constructively, focusing on doing what is right for the client and the engagement
- Be accountable for the profitability and quality standards of the scope you own, ensuring all core deliverables pass QC and Delivery Lead review
- Support the engagement lead by flagging risks, resource needs, and impacts to budget or timeline in a timely, transparent manner
- Translate ambiguous client problems into structured workplans, logic trees, and clear analytic frameworks
- Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders, understanding their goals and challenges
- Convey insights, observations, and recommendations clearly and persuasively through polished deliverables, tailoring messages to influence decisions and drive action
- Serve as a reliable point of contact within your workstream
- Support account-level growth by contributing to proposals, SOWs, and RFP responses, and capturing project outcomes to build reusable case studies for Kenway’s HLS practice
- Develop knowledge of client industries, documenting and sharing what you learn to grow Kenway’s expertise
- Coach and support the development of analysts and consultants through guidance, feedback, and sharing frameworks and best practices
- Contribute to initiatives and passion projects that drive Kenway’s growth, culture, and capabilities
- Lead by example in applying Kenway’s Guiding Principles
Benefits
- A competitive compensation package and exceptional benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
