Consultant (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Consultant (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Our client is an international strategy company, predominantly specialising in the pharma & life science sector.

Within the healthcare sector, they operate in life sciences, medical services, biotech, and pharmaceutics, conducting business all over the globe, but their main clients and activities are currently based in the US and in Europe. They are seeking a Consultant to join their team, who is innovative and international and who will bring proactiveness, ownership, and entrepreneurship to the position.

The life sciences sector operates in a rapidly changing environment. Our client has to meet the changing demands of external stakeholders when it comes to interaction and engagement. Internally they face higher risk exposure and as a result, increased liability and potential damage to the company’s reputation. This is amplified by extensive regulatory requirements, which also vary greatly from country to country an additional burden for internationally operating companies.

Our client is a full-service agency, that offers an end-to-end model for Strategic Meetings Management programs to optimize stakeholder interactions, processes, and systems on operational, tactical, and strategical levels in the organization, thereby allowing their clients to focus on their core business activities.

Role Purpose

As a Consultant within the business unit Consultancy, you will support client strategy through collaborating with their key stakeholder panel and the company’s Lead Consultants, to identify key areas for improvement, conduct market research as required, and act as the expert in the field of Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) solutions to boost company performance and solve their business needs. Always based on our client’s in-depth industry-specific knowledge and experience, delivering best-in-class advice that is in many cases will be supported by our client’s enterprise SaaS products.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with internal/external stakeholders to gain a complete understanding of client’s specific business goals, objectives, and audiences
• Leverages the client’s input and data obtained to deliver analytic insights to drive the delivery on clients’ requirements
• Leads/works as part of the team in the day-to-day client management, project management and coordination and development of high-quality client deliverables
• Develops and works with the team to establish future-facing insights, market trends, implications, and recommendations, delivering advice, making recommendations, and identifying and solving problems
• Research/prepares related materials, leads/participates in client engagements, presentations, and workshops prepare reports and proposals
• Involved in networking activities e.g., participating at industry-related congresses, connecting to (potential) clients, pitching, and acquiring new projects and business opportunities.

Qualifications

• University degree (Masters’s degree is preferred)
• Min. 2-3 years experience in the domain of consulting/advisory is an advantage
• Embraces new challenges and able to navigate your way within a dynamic business environment
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills written and verbal
• Takes ownership of own performance, keeps up to date with knowledge, and an agile learner
• Advanced MS Office skills (MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word)
• Ability to assess, analyze, express, and logically present proposals/solutions, objective argumentation skills
• Demonstrable project management abilities
• Able to work independently as well as remain part of a collaborative team
• Able and willing to travel