Life Sciences Specialist

Life Sciences Specialist Position

If you’re a bright, motivated life-sciences-focused Ph.D, MD or PharmD interested in tackling some of the most interesting business problems, consider joining L.E.K. as a Life Sciences Specialist (LSS).

LSSs are central to our industry-leading life sciences work. You will quickly take on significant responsibility as you play a crucial role on each case team, managing work modules and synthesizing research to draw critical conclusions that address core client issues. Your ability to apply your unique skills to conduct high-quality work is critical to the breakthroughs that make a lasting impact for our clients.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Applying your technical and scientific expertise to contextualize key client issues and define hypotheses
• Conducting primary and secondary research on clients’ markets, customers, and competitors
• Performing rigorous analysis to drive insights and actionable recommendations
• Collaborating with team members to communicate key findings to the client in written presentations and verbal interactions that deliver maximum impact

L.E.K. recruits the best and the brightest, then offers them the broadest range of high-impact, frequent, and diverse cases for maximum learning. As an LSS, you will gain comprehensive training that integrates science, business, and economics, and experience as not only a technical expert, but also a business expert. You will develop cutting-edge strategic and managerial skills that provide an excellent foundation for a career at L.E.K. and strategic leadership in the healthcare and life sciences industries.

In addition to very competitive compensation and benefits, we promote LSSs to Consultants as fast as they develop, based on demonstrated performance.

Why L.E.K.?

• Meaningful management opportunities: LSSs will quickly gain responsibility for managing Associates and core project workstreams day-to-day.
• Breadth of experiences: While our projects span many services and company types, our focus is strategy and M&A. LSSs typically work on ~6-10 projects a year, providing greater exposure across clients and strategic issues, as well as faster development of business acumen.
• Fun, stimulating work environment: L.E.K. teams spend substantially more time in their home office relative to teams at peer firms, and we pride ourselves on a vibrant social culture, including case team events, office parties, non-profit involvement, and much more.
• International exposure: Approximately 65% of LSSs gain international exposure within their first 3 years, either through projects staffed across global offices, travel to international client locations, or, if they choose, by relocating to an international office on either a temporary or a full-time basis.
• Upward mobility: L.E.K. is a meritocracy with an entrepreneurial culture and frequent feedback. We rapidly progress responsibility to accelerate our team’s development.

Qualifications:

While we do not use a rigid checklist, we look for a combination of attributes in candidates that provide an excellent foundation for a successful career at L.E.K., including leadership, drive, intellectual curiosity and academic achievement, analytical ability, teamwork, and uncompromising ethics. LSSs at L.E.K. are required to have a Ph.D., M.D., Pharm.D., or equivalent advanced degree.

Key skills/competency:

• Life Sciences Expertise
• Business Strategy
• M&A
• Consulting
• Research and Analysis
• Client Communication
• Hypothesis Generation
• Data Synthesis
• Project Management
• Leadership