# Associate Principal/Commercial Strategy (Life Sciences practice)

**Company**: Charles River Associates
**Location**: Boston, MA, United States; Chicago, IL, United States; New York, NY, United States; Summit, NJ, United States
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000 - $190,000
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations, and governments around the world.

The Associate Principal/Commercial Strategy role in the Life Sciences practice involves working on project teams with senior and junior consultants on various client engagements.

Responsibilities:

- Develop a conceptual framework for consulting projects and identify/design analytic tasks

- Serve as a project manager, including effective project planning, execution, and budget management

- Manage mid-level client relationships, communicating project developments and presenting results

- Supervise and direct the work of team members: oversee analyses, provide coaching/direction, and ensure integrity of results

- Create and deliver effective presentations or reports that summarize project concept, analysis, and results

- Contribute to business development efforts and write client proposals

- Assist with practice development activities (training, recruiting, knowledge management)

Desired Qualifications:

- Ph.D. in life sciences (e.g., biology, biotechnology, biochemistry, pharmacology) or MBA

- 3-6 years relevant post-degree professional experience (consulting experience preferred)

- Strong skills in quantitative and qualitative analysis methods and techniques

- Proven team and project management skills, including project planning, prioritization, and budgeting

- Exceptional written and oral communication skills for client interactions, meeting facilitation, and presentations

- Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership

- Strong teamwork and collaboration capabilities

- Business development experience

- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

- Occasional travel required

Career Growth and Benefits:

- CRA's robust skills development programs, including a commitment to offering 100 hours of training annually through formal and informal programs

- Comprehensive total rewards program, including a superior benefits package, wellness programming, and in-house immigration support

Salary and other compensation: A good-faith estimate of the annual base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $190,000.

## Skills

### Required
- life sciences
- project management
- quantitative analysis
- qualitative analysis
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- consulting experience
- MBA
- Ph.D. in life sciences

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