Business Consultant, Life Sciences R&D

About Veeva Systems

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, dedicated to helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, Veeva surpassed $2B in revenue in its last fiscal year and has extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are its core values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. Veeva made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, Veeva supports your flexibility to work from home or in the office, empowering you to thrive in your ideal environment.

Join Veeva in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role: Business Consultant, Life Sciences R&D

Veeva is seeking talented individuals to join its Business Consulting group in R&D, a priority area for the company. Veeva works with senior customer stakeholders, serving as the partner of choice for 85% of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, to define and realize the strategic value of Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Strategy & Operations, as well as Quality and Safety (e.g., Pharmacovigilance).

As a Business Consultant, Life Sciences R&D, you will manage workstreams on consulting projects for Veeva customers in R&D – planning, organizing, and tracking all aspects of delivery. You will analyze problems, build insightful solutions, and develop close working relationships with customer stakeholders (through face-to-face discussions, workshops, email, etc.) to deliver demonstrable, sustainable value, at the forefront of digital and R&D innovation.

What You'll Do

• Lead workstream(s) in a project engagement: planning, organizing, and managing all aspects of delivery including scope, quality, resources, risk, and timelines.
• Be responsible for the end-to-end design, build, and delivery of deliverables that meet specific project goals and objectives.
• Identify and proactively solve problems faced by the customer.
• Be a primary client contact for operational project questions, developing the relationship through face-to-face discussions, workshops, phone, and email contact.
• Manage the work and priorities of Associate Consultants in your workstream.
• Support and mentor Associates in developing skills and professional capabilities.
• Build trusted relationships with customer stakeholders.
• Bring to your customers a good level of industry/market/functional insights.
• Input into business development opportunities and proposals.
• Help develop and disseminate thought leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree and excellent academic record.
• 2+ years of consulting experience.
• Strong Life Sciences background with a keen interest in the R&D value chain or at minimum one or more of the following areas: Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Strategy, Operations, and Quality and Safety.
• Good understanding of technologies used in R&D and ideally Veeva’s platforms and solutions and how R&D consulting offerings can both leverage and support these.
• Good understanding of the business capabilities and drivers underpinning digital technology in health and life sciences and the market forces and trends driving industry change.
• Proven analytical skills, able to quantitatively and qualitatively assess problems and communicate responses across a range of issues.
• A problem-solving mindset: anticipating issues early, analyzing, and proactively finding solutions.
• Demonstrated leadership of others in the delivery of outcomes.
• Highly efficient project management skills.
• Skilled in facilitating collaboration among team members.
• Able to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization and quickly establish credibility.
• Have a strong personal impact and ability to influence and persuade a range of stakeholders.
• Ability to travel roughly up to 25%; this can vary depending on engagement.

Nice to Have

• Post-graduate-level qualification, Ph.D., MD, and/or MBA.
• Experience with digital technologies – platforms, channels, analytics tools, apps, and emerging technology.
• Experience working with SaaS solutions.

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays.
• Retirement programs.
• 1% charitable giving program.

Compensation

The base pay for this role ranges from $70,000 - $140,000. The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Actual salaries may vary within or outside this range, depending on experience and location. Veeva determines compensation for each individual based on unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

Key skills/competency

• Life Sciences Consulting
• R&D Value Chain
• Regulatory Affairs
• Clinical Strategy
• Quality & Safety
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Digital Transformation
• Analytical Problem Solving
• SaaS Solutions