Associate Consultant (Commercial)

Red Nucleus is hiring an Associate Consultant/ Consultant to join our global Commercial team! This is a hybrid role based out of one of our Toronto location.

Our purpose is advancing knowledge to improve lives. We succeed by being the premier provider of strategic learning and development, scientific advisory services (commercial, market access, medical affairs), and medical communications solutions for the life sciences industry. Our global team is composed of nearly 1,000 full-time employees whose commitment to creativity, quality, and on-time delivery is unrivaled in our space.

At Red Nucleus, we believe in providing a rich working environment that pushes us to innovate in ways that engages our employees to be their best selves.  Our culture is about meaningful work, a true sense of community, and fun.   We love to celebrate our people and we are proud to have been Internationally recognized as a “Great Place to Work".  

How you will contribute

In this position, you will be working with our Commercial Consulting team. For more information about our commercial team, please visit Commercial | Red Nucleus.

As a Commercial Consultant (Senior Analyst, Associate Consultant, Consultant, and Senior Consultant roles also available, depending on experience and fit) at Red Nucleus, you will be at the center of a successful global consulting organization, assisting clients including biopharmaceutical and generic manufacturers, device and diagnostic companies, and financial, legal and investment firms – to maximize commercial success through advanced strategic problem solving, market research, analytics, project planning, and client interactions.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Manage project capabilities and proposal development by working with the project team to provide relevant secondary and primary research; identify gaps in information
• Bring structure to vaguely defined problems, pragmatically scope problem solving approach, and manage execution and effectively delegate
• Manage up and down to secure timely and appropriate input
• Structure and review deliverables
• Ensure excellent internal team communication
• Directly apply senior feedback in creation of materials and deliverables
• Capture key takeaways from client and internal discussions, external stakeholder discussions
• Conduct primary research interviews and extract insights for team discussion strategic recommendations
• Prepare project deliverables for senior review in timely manner and in accordance with highest quality standards

About You

• 2-3 years of direct and relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech arena (Industry or life sciences consulting). Progressively more experience required for Consultant and Senior Consultant
• Ability to work in a highly fluid, interactive, demanding, matrixed client environment and build strong, successful business partnerships
• Depending on role fit (Senior Analyst, Associate Consultant, Consultant or Senior Consultant), progressively broader and deeper understanding of, and direct experience with, relevant healthcare market dynamics across a range of therapy areas
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Solid knowledge of healthcare market dynamics in major markets (US, EU5, Japan) as well as familiarity with patient, physician, and payer relationships
• Experience working with commercial leaders in New Product Planning (NPP), marketing, commercial analytics, and/or sales functions
• Illustrative project types may include: commercial opportunity assessment and forecasting, go-to-market strategy, indication prioritization, product launch strategy, launch planning, franchise / brand / tactical planning, lifecycle strategy, HCP / patient segmentation, stakeholder engagement strategy
• Solid understanding of relevant disease background and product dynamics
• Candidates may have emerging areas of specific expertise (content or project type)
• Demonstrated ability to think and plan strategically, identify strategic options and trade-offs, effectively communicate business impact and strategic recommendations
• Proficient at Microsoft Office applications, e.g., PowerPoint, Word, Excel

What You Will Enjoy at Red Nucleus

• Competitive pay, incentives, retirement, and income security programs
• Comprehensive benefits and wellness programs focused on healthy lifestyles
• Generous paid time off, employee assistance programs and flexible work arrangements
• Performance driven environment including professional development and transfer opportunities
• People first culture fostering self expression, diversity, and a growth mindset
• Celebrations! We love to celebrate service anniversaries, holidays, diversity and inclusion events, project milestones and anything else that is meaningful to our employees
• Support of the community organizations you are passionate about
• Ongoing programs and events designed to bring our global team together

Diversity, equity and inclusion are valued at Red Nucleus and we believe we have a shared responsibility to provide equal opportunity and foster an inclusive spirit.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

To learn more about working at Red Nucleus, please visit Careers | Red Nucleus.

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