Consultant, Life Sciences Consulting

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About The Dedham Group:

We set out to develop a health care innovation organization that could separate the background “noise” from what warrants investment in our highly complex, rapidly evolving marketplace lacking transparency to enable our pharmaceutical and biotech clients to make better decisions and flourish.

Today, ten years later, we are the preeminent U.S. market access oncology and specialty strategy partner, grounded in the structure and logic of the strategy consulting discipline, bolstered by our robust data set continuously enriched via our unequaled specialty access panel of the most highly influential access and value influencers in the U.S.

With a unique staffing model of highly structured and collaborative creative thinkers akin to an oncology and specialty think tank, we have increasingly come to be viewed as an influencer in our industry. At the interface of clinical, economic, and operational evolving needs, the Dedham Group has become the go-to resource for addressing the challenges faced by the world’s leading life sciences organizations.

Now, The Dedham Group is proud to be a part of Norstella. Norstella is a premier and critical global life sciences data and AI solutions provider dedicated to improving patient access to life-saving therapies. Norstella supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the full drug development lifecycle — from pipeline to patient. Our mission is simple: to help our clients bring therapies to market faster and more efficiently, ultimately impacting patient lives.

  • Norstella unites market-leading brands - Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, Skipta and The Dedham Group and delivers must-have answers and insights, leveraging AI, for critical strategic, clinical, and commercial decision-making. We help our clients:
  • Accelerate the drug development cycle
  • Assess competition and bring the right drugs to market
  • Make data driven commercial and financial decisions
  • Match and recruit patients for clinical trials
  • Identify and address barriers to therapies
  • Norstella serves most pharmaceutical and biotech companies around the world, along with regulators like the FDA, and payers. By providing critical proprietary data supporting AI-driven workflows, Norstella helps clients make decisions faster and with greater confidence. Norstella’s investments in AI are transforming how data is consumed and decisions are made, disrupting inefficient legacy workflows and helping the industry become more efficient, innovative, and responsive to patient needs.
  • About the Consultant role:

As a Consultant, you will works closely within teams and clients to lead primary and secondary research, develop logical and insightful qualitative and quantitative analyses, and create innovative and effective recommendations.

  • To succeed in this role, you will:
  • Contribute to day-to-day management of 3+ projects, guide overall strategic direction and delegation of tasks to team members, parachute where needed across workstreams to streamline execution
  • Be responsible for timely and successful project execution
  • Provide direct feedback to junior staff to support career development goals
  • Support client relationships, fulfill client requests and begin to forecast future project needs
  • Aid in developing project proposals and capabilities decks to support overall firm development
  • Communicate clearly with senior project managers on project responsibilities, progress, alignment to timeline, and bandwidth of teams
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Requirements
  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree with a life science focus
  • 4+ years life sciences Market Access consulting
  • Superior skills in using MS Office (particularly PowerPoint and Excel)
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Strong collaboration skills; must be a team player
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Expert knowledge of provider and payer dynamics within healthcare, specifically within oncology, cellular therapy / CAR-T, immunology, neurology / CNS, and/or other rare diseases / specialty therapeutics

The Guiding Principles For Success At Norstella

01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First

We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do.

02: Integrity, Truth, Reality

We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn’t. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and reso

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