Graduate Consultant (Healthcare Advisory) London 2024

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies, with offices in 90 markets. As Ipsos’ in-house healthcare consultancy, Healthcare Advisory occupies a unique space. We have the heart and agility of a start-up paired with the big-league scale and diversity of a large global agency.

As part of the Healthcare Advisory team, you will play a key role in helping the team to deliver our client engagements, assisting in executive interviews, supporting in both primary and secondary research, preparing deliverables and helping to present to clients such as Novo Nordisk, GSK, Roche, Boston Scientific and Novartis.

No two projects are the same, and the work spans a variety of topics in both pharmaceuticals and health tech, as well as across a range of therapy areas (including CVD, diabetes, cancer, vaccines). Typical engagements include developing go-to-market strategies, understanding patient care pathways, policy advocacy, and assessing the impacts of health inequalities on patient outcomes. These are all underpinned by the great research Ipsos is known for.

It is not just about what we do, but how we do it. We’re passionate about what we do and relentless in the pursuit of excellence. We know that we’re stronger as a team and champion the things that make us different. So, if you are kind, curious and ambitious, this could just be the place for you.

What will I be doing?

The Advisory business is a key pillar of Ipsos’ future growth, and we expect every one of our team to exemplify what it means to be collaborative, consultative, and courageous, not only ourselves, but to Ipsos and to our clients.

You’ll play a key role in supporting the team in ideation and knowledge curation, developing and winning pitches, insight synthesis and delivering projects for clients across the life sciences sector.

Under the direction of senior members of the team, you will support the delivery of proposals and projects through activities, such as:

• Building project plans, creating timelines, and undertaking project management activities
• Developing a strong understanding of our clients’ business challenges and goals and creating analyses that answer their key questions;
• Contributing to the scoping of proposals and own sections of the proposal writing process, including basic desk-research to support hypotheses;
• Taking complex, messy information and data and synthesise these into concise foresight;
• Helping conduct and analyse stakeholder and expert interviews, attending internal analysis sessions and helping to develop narratives;
• Attending face-to-face or virtual workshops in a note-taking or back-room technical capacity;
• Attending debriefs with clients and capturing comments and build deliverables;
• Building relationships with the immediate team, clients, and broader Ipsos community (locally and globally);

What do I need to bring with me?

The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of both left brain (analytical) and right-brain (creative) skills to bear on our client’s problems: someone who is as comfortable in building a technical model in Excel as they are building a beautiful slide deck in PowerPoint. Our approach to solving problems requires fluidity and comfort in ambiguity.

Skills, behaviours and attributes we are looking for

• Specialist interest in the healthcare or life sciences sector
• Curious about the world and excited to work on products, technologies, brands and initiatives that could change healthcare for the better
• Strong commercial acumen, critical thinking and applied analytical skills; comfortable analysing qualitative and quantitative data
• Good at understanding clients’ business challenges and goals, and creating analyses that answer their key questions
• A willingness to think around challenges and cope with ambiguity with a positive outlook
• Able to build strong project management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects, comfortable working under pressure to tight deadlines without losing sight of the details
• Focused on the highest quality solutions and client satisfaction
• Ability to demonstrate ownership, judgement and independence
• Has a team-oriented mindset, supportive and encouraging of others
• Works at building relationships with the team, clients, and broader Ipsos community
• Impeccable interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal

Along with

• The unrestricted right to work in the UK

What is in it for me?

Our Generation Ipsos programme provides a comprehensive foundation in research and how it’s practically applied in a commercial environment. You’ll be trained in client management, project management and the nitty-gritty of research including methodologies, sampling, weighting and ethics. You’ll learn through real life, hands-on experience, webinars, seminars and specialist workshops.

We will provide you with dedicated training designed to achieve the industry recognised Market Research Society (MRS) Advanced Certificate accreditation. Networking is a key skill so we have Early Careers events with other Graduates, Placement Students and Interns across the company. You can read more by clicking here.

Ipsos UK offers a hybrid working environment, 3 days in the office and working the rest from home. We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.

We have a flexible working culture where we support our colleagues and celebrate our successes is important to us. We invest our time in you and you will benefit from working alongside our expert teams.

Your manager will help you set goals to achieve your personal objectives throughout the year and help you exceed these.

And the fun stuff 

• 25 days’ holiday which increases over time to 30 days, plus an extra day for your birthday
• Annual summer and All Staff events
• Team socials, including Christmas parties
• Season ticket loan
• Future talent loan - an optional and interest-free loan of up to £1000 to help with any unexpected costs, so you can focus on having a great start to your career
• A huge variety of benefits e.g. pension contributions, income protection, winter flu jabs, eye care vouchers, online and high street discounts
• Opportunity to participate in and benefit from participation in our multiple Diversity and Inclusion Belong groups, which bring together people with shared identities and interests to ensure that their voices are heard through the company and that Ipsos can continue to carry out research that is most representative of the UK and wider world today.

From here you will be taken to our recruitment partner, Instant Impact’s website where you can fill out our application form. Those who are successful at this stage will be progressed to a virtual interview. The final stage will be an assessment centre at our London office. Applications close on Tuesday 16th January 2024 but we may close early if we receive a high volume of applications.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients.