Senior Manager, Management Consulting - Healthcare

About us

We are a leading consultancy with a purpose to make an enduring impact on health and healthcare. We work with leaders and frontline teams to improve health, transform healthcare, drive adoption of innovation and create value through investment.

Our consultancy serves the entire healthcare sector, from payors and providers of care, to life science companies, health tech and sector suppliers and health investors. We provide end-to-end services, from strategy through implementation, accelerated by data, digital and AI.

We shape opinion through evidence-based thought leadership on key issues affecting health. With unmatched ability to access and use health data, our consultants are a driving force for delivering positive and meaningful change.

Our strategic intent

We are focused on building the leading consulting company dedicated to health. We serve the entire healthcare sector, including healthcare systems (providers, payors and regulators), life sciences (pharmaceuticals, biotech, devices and diagnostics), health technology, health investors, and the wider supplier landscape.

We provide end-to-end services, from strategy through implementation, supporting organisations to improve population health and healthcare outcomes. Our work spans strategy and transformation, finance and performance improvement, and delivery accelerated by data, digital and AI. We help clients understand their ambitions, identify opportunities to create value, apply innovation in practice, and deliver sustainable, measurable change.

Our consulting is accelerated by data. With an unmatched ability to access and use health data, we are recognised for our expertise in its safe and responsible application, improving health and healthcare delivery, supporting adoption of innovation, generating evidence, and informing decision-making. Our engineering and data science capabilities underpin our consulting and are also deployed directly with clients, often as part of multidisciplinary teams.

We are building a community of expert consultants who want to operate at the leading edge of the profession and who share a passion for health. Through structured career development from Analyst to Partner, underpinned by apprenticeship, mentorship and formal training, we are cultivating the leaders of the future and supporting individuals to develop distinctive expertise that creates value for our clients.

Our Mission

Our mission is to be invaluable to our clients, supporting them to innovate and make lasting improvements and to build an exceptional company that attracts, develops, and retains a trusted and uniquely talented team. 

About the role

Join our team as Senior Manager with deep healthcare expertise, ideally with a track record of leading strategic transformation programs.. You will play a vital role in shaping and executing impactful, high-level changes across the healthcare landscape, working alongside some of the industry's most respected thought leaders, including former NHS executives and top consultants with extensive experience in healthcare innovation.

As part of our collaborative team, you will partner with leading healthcare institutions to address today’s most pressing health and wellbeing challenges. In this strategic role, your insights and leadership will be crucial in crafting solutions to complex problems, delivering sustainable improvements, and advancing population health outcomes. This position presents a unique platform for professional development and progression, offering you the opportunity to make a substantial societal impact while furthering your career in a supportive and growth-oriented environment. You will bring a developing brand and growing reputation in the market built through extensive experience in healthcare consulting delivery at Manager or Senior Manager level or through a combination of consulting and senior healthcare industry experience.  Areas of expertise may include: design and execution of major strategic transformations; development of healthcare business models and model of care; quality, performance and financial improvement; workforce development; and digital and data programmes.

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of the healthcare sector, preferably with experience within the NHS
• Experience of working in the healthcare sector 
• 5+ years in a managerial position within strategy/management consulting 
• Proven track record of leading self and others, experience in managing teams and coaching others to high performance 
• The ability to think strategically about business and industry trends and use analytical, problem-solving techniques to break down issues into the ‘so what’ 
• Track record of successful programme delivery across a range of client challenges 
• The ability to understand client needs and go extra mile to deliver high quality solutions 
• The interpersonal skills to develop enduring relationships with clients and become a trusted advisor 
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, including demonstrated experience in communicating with senior Executives 
• Educated to a degree level (or equivalent experience) 

Desired

• A clinical or operational background within the NHS combined with strategy, transformation or policy development
• Experience working on high profile projects (eg those that include public consultation)

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements from strategy development to execution, using analytical, hypothesis-driven thinking to solve complex problems.
• Build and sustain trusted senior client relationships, engaging in discussions on future needs and opportunities.
• dentify and secure new business through opportunity qualification, proposal development, and presentation
• Oversee project delivery, ensuring high-quality, client-ready outputs within agreed scope, timeline, and resources.
• Manage client interactions, addressing concerns, solving issues, and ensuring smooth execution.
• Provide leadership in practice-building efforts, including recruitment, mentoring, performance management, and training.
• Develop persuasive, concise, and insightful documents for executive audiences.
• Maintain commercial awareness of project profitability and upcoming opportunities.
• Enable collaboration within internal teams and with clients to drive effective teamwork and results.
• Continuously develop your own skills, seek feedback, and share knowledge to stay ahead of industry trends and best practices

Flexible working

We follow a hybrid working model that balances in person connections and remote work to drive exceptional client impact. We enjoy working in person together with clients and colleagues and work where clients need us to be.

In supporting flexibility and remote working, team members can work from home one day per week as standard. Additionally, we offer 44 remote working days per year which can be used to top up your working from home days and enable you to work from home up to two days per week-subject to client needs. Alternatively, you could use your allowance in blocks to manage school holidays or other commitments. Our core in person working hours are from 10am until 4pm allowing you that extra flexibility to manage your schedule in a way that works for you. 

Benefits

• We offer a competitive and flexible reward package designed to support you at work and beyond it. You will benefit from a generous holiday allowance that grows with your career (minimum of 25 days), a strong employer pension contribution, and the freedom to tailor benefits to suit your lifestyle, from wellbeing and fitness to financial protection.
• We are committed to supporting life’s important moments, with enhanced family leave, income and life protection, and access to practical benefits that make everyday life easier, such as interest-free loans and travel support.
• Your wellbeing matters to us. You will have access to a comprehensive wellbeing and employee assistance programme, preventative health benefits, and initiatives that support an active, balanced way of working.
• Above all, we invest in our people; offering flexibility, security, and benefits that grow with you, so you can do your best work while building a sustainable and rewarding career.