Vice President - Life Sciences

Job Description

Life Sciences organisations are undergoing major change, facing new external challengers, new technology trends, internal cost pressures, and the some of the industries in the UK face an uncertain future. Leveraging our Capgemini’s strong network of clients, talent and assets, we are ideally positioned to help our clients re-invent their business models, deliver digital transformation and increase their competitiveness. With deep industry specialism in Life Sciences, combined with end to end business understanding, technology skills, and a highly collaborative working style, you will shape our consulting capability by driving new business and expanding existing business.

Capgemini Invent is hiring in the MALS (Manufacturing, Automotive & Life Sciences) sector for a Life Sciences leader. This role will be fundamental in driving forward the digital agenda for our clients and their customers and we are seeking to hire a proven leader to set a visionary direction, maximise the market opportunity, drive the development of the team and deliver for our clients.

• You’ll help drive our strategy, shape our offers, develop our capability within the Life Science sector of the Capgemini Invent and lead sales and delivery work with new and existing clients.
• Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships (ideally at either GSK or Astra Zeneca) and your own network to drive our ambition to treble our revenues in the sector over the next 2 years.
• Lead a specific Life Sciences Account
• As well as defining the target shape and composition of the Capgemini Invent sector team and recruiting consultants, you’ll be mentoring other members of the team to ensure their effective development.
• Engaging with existing and potential clients – developing relationships with senior members of the Life Sciences Sector
• Drive consulting and technology offerings to new and existing clients, ensuring offerings are relevant and timely.
• Be an authority and thought leader.
• Ensuring effective delivery and timely completion of projects in alignment with commercial goals.

Externally in the market, you’ll bring the presence and gravitas to initiate, manage and maintain board / senior management relationships. To understand and scope out their challenges and potential solutions and to both sell & deliver top-tier consulting and technology enabled business transformation work.

Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you’ll be generating c .£2m (at Director level) or £4m (at VP level) of consulting revenues.

You’ll bring deep Life Sciences sector consulting expertise including consumer, pharma, med-tech, manufacturing and supply chain.

To be successful you’ll bring strong personal skills and the ability to overcome internal barriers through the use of drive, determination and influencing skills. You’ll have a natural ability to work in mixed teams of colleagues and senior executives and possess outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.

You’ll enjoy building and managing a team, providing direction and helping others to develop. You’ll demonstrate professionalism and flexibility - you’ll be able to adjust positively to situations that involve changing tasks and/or location, shifting priorities or ambiguity. In fact, you’ll thrive in this environment. You’ll combine the commitment to own and deliver outstanding work with the gravitas to engage effectively with C-level / CXOs on a peer to peer basis.

You will also have experience of delivering end to end P&L – either for an account, or for a sector within previous organisations.

You’ll be free to make your role and your career what you want it to be. Proactivity and ambition flourish at Capgemini. There are countless opportunities available to propel your development forward: seek out those that suit you, and we will back you all the way. In summary, we believe the following make this a great place to work:

• Show how single minds make for better teams: Work alongside fierce intellects who love to collaborate.
• Be comfortable outside your comfort zone: Self-stretchers thrive in our environment.
• Build momentum in your career: Make your role and your career what you want it to be.
• Stay true to who you are: Play to your strengths and bring your individuality.
• Aim for nothing less than leading edge: We thrive on the knowledge that the Digital work we do has real impact.
• Give your curiosity freedom and focus: A place where inquisitiveness and entrepreneurial thinking are encouraged.

Whilst you will have London as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes fixed salary and variable compensation. We also offer flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances.

In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.