Senior Manager - Health and Life Sciences

About Baringa Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation. Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms. Our Health practice are looking for an experienced Senior Manager to join the team. We are partners in purposeful health transformation, helping organisations deliver rapid, responsible, and integrated change across national, regional, and local health systems. We support major health and care stakeholders, including NHS England, in delivering complex programmes ranging from large-scale technology and data initiatives to critical system procurements and life sciences partnerships. What excites us most is the intersection of the private and public sectors — the point where life sciences innovation meets the everyday realities of frontline care, and where the greatest opportunities for patients are unlocked. As a single firm working across both sides of that boundary, we are able to operate in a far more joined-up way than most: partnering directly with pharmaceutical and life sciences companies as they interface with the health system, and working alongside the health system as it engages with the life sciences companies developing the next generation of treatments. What you will be doing You will work across strategy, delivery, commercial development, and stakeholder orchestration within the UK health and life sciences ecosystem. You will work across the intersection of government, NHS organisations, arm’s length bodies, and the pharmaceutical/life sciences industry, helping translate national strategy into delivery. You will support the implementation of the UK Life Sciences Sector Plan, contributing to programmes spanning health data, clinical research, and innovation. You will help shape and deliver work on health data infrastructure and research services, including national initiatives enabling access to health data for research and innovation. You will contribute to the development of new data-driven health products, platforms, and services, working through questions of how health data assets can best support research and commercial use cases. You will build and develop a pipeline of opportunities across health, life sciences, and government clients, supporting growth of the practice. You will support the development of proposals, bids, and commercial propositions, working with senior leaders to shape client solutions. You will play a key role in delivering client programmes, ensuring work moves from strategy through to execution and measurable outcomes. You will act as a connector across stakeholders and institutions, helping align organisations…