Description
Charles River Associates (CRA) 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 Life Sciences practice at CRA helps pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics, and medical device companies achieve optimum performance across key aspects of their business, including innovation, commercial success, organization, and reputation.
As a Consulting Associate in the Life Sciences practice, you will work closely with senior colleagues to deliver consulting projects that address specific client needs. You will contribute to a range of medical affairs projects spanning strategic planning, advisory boards, KOL mapping, KOL insights gathering, and evidence generation planning.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with senior colleagues to deliver consulting projects
- Contribute to medical affairs projects, including strategic planning and advisory boards
- Gain exposure to working across multiple disease states and treatment landscapes
- Apply scientific and disease state knowledge to translate complex science into clear, actionable insights
- Conduct primary and secondary research to identify, collect, manage, and analyze data
- Critically evaluate and synthesize insights from literature reviews and advisory boards
- Assume responsibility for generating sections of client reports and presentations
- Support client-facing interactions, including meetings, presentations, and workshops
- Proactively develop your knowledge of the life sciences industry and consulting methodologies
- Work on multiple projects at the same time
Qualifications:
- PhD in a life sciences field
- Up to 3 years of relevant consulting or Medical Affairs experience preferred
- Strong understanding of clinical trial design and statistics
- Knowledge of different disease states and treatment landscapes
- Knowledge of the role of Medical Affairs in launching a therapy
- Strong analytic focus
- Experience with business analytics or computational data analytics is a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Eye for detail and self-motivated to deliver high-quality work on time
Career Growth and Benefits:
- Robust skills development programs, including 100 hours of training annually
- Comprehensive total rewards program, including a superior benefits package and wellness programming
- Work environment that enables colleagues to benefit from being together in the office and working from home periodically