Consultant

About Lucid Group  

We are a global healthcare communications agency with deep therapeutic expertise that traverses the asset lifecycle, delivering transformative outcomes for healthcare brands for over 20 years.

Our more than 500 highly trained professionals work with speed and agility to craft and execute breakthrough strategies that maximise performance and unlock a brands full potential.

This position is aligned to one of our four divisions:

• Lucid Strategy Consulting brings depth of expertise in the research, development and commercialisation of solutions across therapeutic areas and modalities by streamlining product development, building operational capabilities, innovating, and supporting execution to create value for patients, clients and shareholders.
  
  

Our other divisions include:

• Lucid Global works with global brand teams at big and mid-tier pharmaceuticals and biotech clients to deliver powerful medical communications solutions for early lifecycle assets.
• US MedComms works with both US and Global brand teams to create powerful medical communications solutions across the asset lifecycle.
• US Marketing works with clients across the Rx, Medical Device, OTC and Consumer Device categories to deliver compelling communications and promotional solutions to Healthcare Professionals for in-market assets.
  
  

About The Role

As a Consultant at Lucid Strategy Consulting, you will be responsible for working in a team to provide strategic guidance and solutions to our clients to help them improve their performance and achieve their business objectives. Your role will involve analysing complex problems, developing innovative strategies, and implementing practical solutions.

A Consultant at Lucid Strategy Consulting is responsible for:

Project delivery

• Supporting the development of project specifications including objectives and scope
• Leading development of issue trees to define hypotheses, structure research activities and identify data needs and sources
• Selecting the appropriate research/ analysis plan given research and analysis options and trade-offs; maximizing use of available networks (internal/external) to obtain information
• Preparing and conducting interviews, and facilitating client meetings and workshops
• Generating insights from research and analyses – identifying the implications (the so what), from data gathering/ analysis
• Identifying appropriate objectives and KPIs (key performance indicators) for clients functions and projects
• Using presentation tools and techniques to engage effectively with the target audience
• Overall, developing and delivering structured, high quality client deliverables (written and verbal)
  
  

Project and team management

• Developing realistic project plans with associated roles and responsibilities
• Guiding team members in execution of their project responsibilities
• Proactively identifying risks to project delivery and raising them with associated resolution actions to Project Manager
• Monitoring and flagging issues with regard to work effort and budget tracking
• Providing informal coaching and development to new members of staff
• Coaching and developing project team members in collaboration with the Project Manager / Director (tasks, communication, attitude)
• Completing and scoring project objectives of more junior team members where appropriate, and in collaboration with the Project Manager / Director
  
  

Additional Responsibilities

• Providing input to direction and content of proposals and leading clearly defined business development activities
• Proactively identifying business development opportunities with existing clients
• Maintaining relationships with clients post completion of engagements
  
  

What Were Looking For

Essential skills:

• 2 or more years of client-facing consulting experience in the pharmaceutical/health sector
• A degree in a scientific, medical or life sciences field
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport, establish credibility and trust with clients and colleagues
• Proven ability to produce exceptional quality written and verbal client deliverables
• The ability to think strategically and problem solve
• Experience of building understanding of key strategic and operational drivers and issues impacting a company
• Strong MS Office communication tools – high proficiency in MS PowerPoint and Word, familiarity with MS Excel
  
  

Desirable skills:

• Experience or aptitude for business development activities, including identifying opportunities and contributing to proposal development
• High proficiency in MS Excel
  
  

Benefits Of Working With Us    

Our culture is fundamental to the delivery of transformation. Harnessing the talent and ambitions of those we work with empowers us to deliver our magic. On top of this, our benefits include: 

• Discretionary bonus scheme;
• Contributory pension with Lucid contribution up to 5% of basic salary (enrolment after 3 months of employment);
• Cycle to work scheme;
• 25 working days holiday, 1 Celebration Day of your choice, 4 Christmas closure days plus 8 Bank Holidays per annum (pro-rata for part-time);
• Flexible holiday buy and sell scheme;
• Family friendly policies;
• Private family health and dental cover, including Employee Assistance Programme and a comprehensive employee rewards scheme;
• 4x basic salary life assurance cover;
• Medicash Healthcare Cash Plan (Level 1 company cover)
• Season Ticket Loans;
• Regular incentive schemes aligned to individual and team performance;
  
  

WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR US TO BE LUCID?

At Lucid Group, we transform lives. Always. We believe in providing a culture of authenticity, where we can all be ourselves, make real connections, and enjoy the work that we do. Together.

We empower our people to embark on a journey of growth and advancement by offering meaningful learning and development opportunities.

Central to our ethos is our commitment to cultivating an environment that embraces and respects people of all backgrounds and identities, underpinned by a culture of conscious inclusion and support.

The Lucid values are not just mere words; they are the culmination of our collective efforts. Co-created by our people for our people, these values serve as our guiding principles, ensuring that every decision we make positively impacts the lives of the clients, patients, healthcare professionals, and colleagues we serve.

• Compassionately Human: We think about the human impact of our actions
• Accountable Allies: We are the go-to strategic partners for our clients
• Invent with Intent: We create meaningful solutions to solve real problems
• Courageously Curious: We challenge ourselves to think disruptively
  
  

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds and identities. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment experience to everyone.

This commitment to inclusion is explicitly inclusive of race, colour, sex, age, pregnancy, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression or disability.

Lucid was started with a core ideology rooted in a legacy of innovation and dedication. For the past 20 years we have successfully transformed healthcare communications for the better.

From our ambitious agency beginnings we have grown organically and through strategically aligned acquisition. We are currently based in 4 global locations, and our 500 worldwide colleagues are the trusted partners for 100s of top brands and client teams, big and small.

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