Life Sciences Consultant
Carnall Farrar
Life Sciences Consultant
Carnall Farrar
Carnall Farrar · London, United Kingdom · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-20
Workplace: on_site
Department: Consulting
About us
We are a leading consultancy with a purpose to make an enduring impact on health and healthcare. We work with leaders and frontline teams to improve health, transform healthcare, drive adoption of innovation and create value through investment.
Our consultancy serves the entire healthcare sector, from payors and providers of care, to life sciences companies, health tech and sector suppliers and health investors. We provide end-to-end services, from strategy through implementation, accelerated by data, digital and AI.
We shape opinion through evidence-based thought leadership on key issues affecting health. With a strong ability to access and use health data, our consultants help to deliver positive and meaningful change.
Our Life Sciences practice operates at the intersection of health systems and industry, partnering with global pharmaceutical companies at the EUCan and global level and engaging earlier in the product lifecycle, increasingly two to five years ahead of launch. We are the partner that drives and proves the uptake of innovative, population health medicines: our deep NHS relationships and whole-population linked data assets are the engine we use to demonstrate real-world value, evidence we then carry into EU, Canadian and global markets. Our ambition is to reach £10m in Life Sciences revenues by 2030, with the majority of that growth coming from beyond the UK.
Our strategic intent
We are focused on building the leading consulting company dedicated to health. We serve the entire healthcare sector, including healthcare systems (providers, payors and regulators), life sciences (pharmaceuticals, biotech, devices and diagnostics), health technology, health investors, and the wider supplier landscape.
We provide end-to-end services, from strategy through implementation, supporting organisations to improve population health and healthcare outcomes. Our work spans strategy and transformation, finance and performance improvement, and delivery accelerated by data, digital and AI. We help clients understand their ambitions, identify opportunities to create value, apply innovation in practice, and deliver sustainable, measurable change.
Within life sciences, our ambition is to be the partner that drives and proves the uptake of population health medicines. We help pharmaceutical, biotech and diagnostics clients accelerate the adoption of innovation across health systems, generate real-world evidence from linked population data, and shape the policy, HTA and market access conditions in which new treatments succeed. We increasingly engage at the global and EUCan level and earlier in the product lifecycle, thinking global and acting multi-local across UK, EU and Canadian markets.
Our consulting is accelerated by data. With a strong ability to access and use health data, we are recognised for our expertise in its safe and responsible application, improving health and healthcare delivery, supporting adoption of innovation, generating evidence, and informing decision-making. Our engineering and data science capabilities underpin our consulting and are also deployed directly with clients, often as part of multidisciplinary teams.
We are building a community of expert consultants who want to operate at the leading edge of the profession and who share a passion for health. Through structured career development from Analyst to Partner, underpinned by apprenticeship, mentorship and formal training, we are cultivating the leaders of the future and supporting individuals to develop distinctive expertise that creates value for our clients.
About the role
By joining our team as a Consultant in our Life Sciences practice, you will become part of a group of consultants committed to improving health and care for all. Our team combines deep sector knowledge with experience helping global life sciences companies accelerate the adoption of innovation and demonstrate its value across health systems, increasingly at the global and European level and earlier in the product lifecycle, where the strategic decisions that shape a medicine’s launch are now made.
Working with leading global life sciences companies, from pharmaceutical and biotech businesses to medical device and diagnostics firms, you will engage senior client stakeholders across global and regional (EUCan/EMEA) teams, franchise leadership, market access and medical affairs, alongside the health systems, payors and regulators that shape access to their products. You will tackle some of the greatest challenges in bringing innovation to patients. You’ll own workstreams end-to-end, produce client-ready outputs, contribute to proposals, and engage directly with clients, helping to deliver solutions that improve population health.
It is a genuine development role. You will be given real responsibility early, with the support of an experienced team, and gain experience across strategy, market access, evidence generation and data-driven delivery spanning UK, EU and Canadian markets, building expertise at the intersection of global life sciences and the health systems in which their products succeed.
Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
Plan elements of problem solving for own workstream and making effective use of leadership time
Contribute effectively to problem solving through independently structuring and conducting analysis and research within a workstream
Apply analysis and evidence to real client challenges in life sciences, such as accelerating the adoption of a new medicine, generating real-world evidence, or building the case for patient access and reimbursement
Develop high-quality, client ready end products with minimal correction required
Communicate effectively with clients across a range of media, including participating in stakeholder engagement with senior audiences across global and regional life sciences teams (including EUCan/EMEA, market access and medical affairs) and health system settings
Understand contribution of own work to overall project timeline and effectively manage and prioritise tasks, appropriately flagging risks and escalations including capacity
Build and nurture constructive relationships with individuals from previous, existing and new clients
Contribute to high-quality proposals for existing and new clients, and support responses to competitive tenders
Work independently and contribute effectively in a team, supporting analysts in applying the consulting toolkit
To be successful in this role, you are likely to have a combination of the following:
Mandatory
Minimum 2:1 graduate degree in a clinical, scientific or health economics discipline
Commercial experience within strategy or management consulting, demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of the life sciences sector (pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical devices or diagnostics) and how it interacts with health systems
Experience working with global or EUCan pharmaceutical clients, or a demonstrable understanding of how life sciences companies operate beyond the UK across EU and international markets
Ability to think strategically and support the development of comprehensive plans to address complex life sciences and healthcare challenges, such as accelerating the adoption of innovation or building the case for patient access
Project management skills to deliver within own workstream to overall project timelines
Proficiency in research and data analysis, with the ability to collect, interpret, and leverage complex data sets for informed decision-making
Good communication and interpersonal skills to present findings and establish and nurture client relationships
Demonstration of business development acumen, such as contributing to high-quality proposals
Commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends and best practices
Willingness and ability to travel
Desired
Experience in advanced analytical capabilities such as using SQL or Python
Knowledge of a specific therapeutic area (such as cardiovascular, renal and metabolic, neuroscience, respiratory or immunology) or methodological domain (health economics and outcomes research, real-world evidence, or market access)
Familiarity with the NHS data landscape, including linked datasets, DARS and secure data environments, and its applications in life sciences
Experience engaging with EU or Canadian pharmaceutical markets, HTA bodies (including NICE and the EU Joint Clinical Assessment) or reimbursement frameworks
We follow a hybrid working model that balances in person connections and remote work to drive exceptional client impact. We enjoy working in person together with clients and colleagues and work where clients need us to be.
In supporting flexibility and remote working, team members can work from home one day per week as standard. Additionally, we offer 44 remote working days per year which can be used to top up your working from home days and enable you to work from home up to two days per week-subject to client needs. Alternatively, you could use your allowance in blocks to manage school holidays or other commitments. Our core in person working hours are from 10am until 4pm allowing you that extra flexibility to manage your schedule in a way that works for you.
We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive culture where diversity thrives, and all our people can excel. We only recruit, promote and reward our people based on their skills and contribution, without regard to gender, race, disability, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or other characteristics.
We are Disability Confident Accredited, and we want you to feel comfortable and able to perform at your best in the recruitment process, if you require any reasonable adjustments for any part of the recruitment process, please let us know.
We offer a competitive and flexible reward package designed to support you at work and beyond it. You will benefit from a generous holiday allowance that grows with your career (minimum of 25 days), a strong employer pension contribution, and the freedom to tailor benefits to suit your lifestyle, from wellbeing and fitness to financial protection.
We are committed to supporting life’s important moments, with enhanced family leave, income and life protection, and access to practical benefits that make everyday life easier, such as interest-free loans and travel support.
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