Director of Consulting (Life Sciences)

Artefact

About the Job Do you think like a management consultant, thrive in a high-growth environment, and can't stop thinking about the intersection of data, technology, and business strategy? Are you the person clients turn to when the problem is complex, the stakes are high, and the path forward isn't obvious yet? With over 2,000 employees, 36 offices on five continents, and world-class clients like Samsung, L'Oréal, and Mattel, Artefact is a consulting firm that transforms data into measurable value and business impact. We've recently launched in the US with offices in NYC and Los Angeles — and we want you to join us as a cornerstone of our founding team. Who We Are Founded and headquartered in Paris, Artefact is a next-generation consulting firm specializing in data, analytics, and AI consulting — dedicated to transforming data into business impact across the entire value chain of organizations. We don't just advise; we build, implement, and deliver results our clients can measure. We have 2,000 employees across 36 offices focused on accelerating digital transformation for some of the world's most recognizable brands. Our state-of-the-art data technologies, lean AI agile methodologies, and cohesive teams of elite business consultants, data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and digital experts are all laser-focused on delivering real value to every client. We design data-driven solutions tailored to each client's specific needs — always conceived with a business-first mindset and delivered with tangible, measurable results. Our expertise is built on deep AI knowledge acquired through 1,000+ client engagements across the globe. Find out more at artefact.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What You Will Be Doing As a Senior Consultant, you'll be a driving force in our US practice — leading high-impact client engagements, shaping analytical strategy, and setting the standard for delivery excellence on our founding team. You won't just surface insights; you'll own the client relationship, structure the narrative, and be directly accountable for outcomes that move the needle for major global brands. This is a high-visibility role with real scope from day one. You'll partner with senior client stakeholders, bring clarity to ambiguous problems, and translate sophisticated data work into decisions that executives act on. You'll also help shape what Artefact looks like in the US — contributing to proposals, developing thought leadership, and actively building our market presence. Key responsibilities include: * Defining client needs through in-depth discovery — conducting structured interviews with client teams and technology partners to surface the real problem beneath the stated one * Performing advanced data analysis and rigorous research to solve high-impact, strategic challenges that matter to our clients' bottom lines * Building, formulating, and presenting data-driven strategic recommendations that are compelling, actionable, and boardroom-ready * Developing new business proposals that win — translating Artefact's capabilities into clear, persuasive value propositions for prospective clients * Contributing to thought leadership and content development on business-relevant topics, including Artefact-published research, articles, and business cases * Taking full ownership of project delivery — ensuring workstreams are aligned, on schedule, and meeting client expectations, with support from a Manager or Director * Mentoring and developing junior consultants and interns, actively investing in the talent pipeline that will define our US team ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What We Are Looking For We're looking for proven leaders and sharp thinkers who are ready to make their mark — people who bring a point of view, thrive in ambiguity, and hold themselves accountable to outcomes, not just outputs. As a senior member of our founding US team, you'll help define what excellence looks like at Artefact in North America. We'll give you the platform and the tools to do your best work — and you'll arrive ready with the following: * Undergraduate degree with strong academic performance; advanced degree (MBA or MSc in a quantitative field) is a significant asset * 3–5 years of full-time experience in one or more of the following: consulting, data/analytics, marketing, advertising, finance, or tech — with a clear track record of client-facing delivery and independent problem-solving * Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; you can represent Artefact with confidence and credibility at the senior client level * Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate across diverse, multicultural teams; strong intercultural communication skills are essential in our global environment * Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with SQL, Python, or R is a strong differentiator * Genuine passion for data, digital, and the broader tech and AI economy — you follow this space because you love it, not because you have to * A natural teaching orientation and demonstrated ability to mentor junior team members; you make the people around you better * Deep knowledge of strategy consulting and/or digital marketing — within a consultancy, start-up, or agency — is highly desirable ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why You Should Join Us At this stage in your career, you have options. Here's what makes Artefact different: Real ownership, right away. We're building our US practice from the ground up, which means your contributions don't disappear into a bureaucracy — they shape the trajectory of an entire market. Work that's actually at the frontier. Our clients aren't asking yesterday's questions. You'll be tackling problems where AI and advanced analytics are actively reshaping industries — and you'll be expected to lead that conversation. A global network that makes you better. With 36 offices worldwide, you'll tap into methodologies, expertise, and colleagues across every major market. Our scale gives you resources; our culture gives you autonomy. We are united by our values and strengthened by our hybrid expertise: * There is always a way — We're builders, diggers, and makers. Ideas only count if they get executed. * Client trust is won in the field — We show up where it matters, working side by side with our clients to solve what's real. * If not used, it is useless — We build for adoption and impact. True brilliance is measured by what changes, not what's delivered. * If not shared, our work is not done — Sharing knowledge is how we close the loop — for our clients and for each other. * We learn every day — In a field moving at the speed of light, intellectual curiosity isn't optional. It's survival. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Compensation & Benefits The estimated base compensation for this role is $125,000 – $135,000. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, this role is eligible for a competitive benefits package.

Causaly

About us: Causaly is redefining how humans acquire knowledge and develop insights in biomedicine. Our AI-powered platform enables researchers and decision-makers to discover and interpret evidence from millions of scientific publications, clinical trials, regulatory documents, and other complex data sources in minutes. We are building the world’s most advanced biomedical knowledge platform, powered by a high-precision Knowledge Graph and GenAI capabilities. Our technology is already used by leading biopharmaceutical organizations to accelerate drug discovery, improve safety, and drive better decision-making. Backed by top-tier investors including ICONIQ, Index Ventures, Pentech, and Marathon, we are scaling rapidly and expanding our product suite and market presence.  About the role Causaly helps life sciences organisations make faster, better-informed R&D decisions by combining scientific depth with AI-powered evidence discovery. As our customers expand theway they use Causaly, we need a senior leader who can connect scientific value, executive priorities, and enterprise decision-making. The Life Science Strategy Director will lead our pre-sales advisory model for strategic accounts. This role sits at the intersection of science, consulting, and commercial strategy. You will help customers understand where Causaly can create measurable value, shape the strategic narrative for senior stakeholders, and build the operating model that allows our Scientific Solutions Consultants and strategic value advisory capability to execute consistently. This is a player-coach role. In the initial phase, you will personally support selected strategic opportunities as a strategic value advisor, helping Strategic Client Partners develop the executive case, ROI logic, and “why change, why now, why Causaly” narrative. Over time, you will build the standards, coaching, and governance needed to scale this capability across regions. This is not a quota-carrying sales role. The Strategic Client Partner owns the commercial relationship and opportunity progression. The Life Science Strategy Director owns the quality of the scientific and strategic advisory support that helps customers make confident decisions. What you’ll own * Lead the pre-sales advisory model across Scientific Solutions Consultants and strategic value advisory support, ensuring the right expertise is applied to the right customer situation. * Build repeatable standards for executive value narratives, ROI frameworks, scientific workflow discovery, and business case development. * Partner with Strategic Client Partners to translate user-level scientific value into senior stakeholder priorities such as research productivity, decision quality, portfolio confidence, speed, and risk reduction. * Coach SSCs and future strategic value advisors on how to move from product demonstration to consultative problem-solving and strategic value articulation. * Personally act as a strategic value advisor on selected strategic opportunities during the initial phase, supporting executive conversations, business case development, and senior stakeholder alignment. * Establish a clear operating cadence with Sales leadership, including prioritisation, strategic opportunity reviews, quality reviews, and feedback loops. * Capture patterns from customer conversations and translate them into stronger pre- sales playbooks, enablement, and executive-facing assets. * Define practical measures of success for the advisory model, including quality of business cases, strength of executive engagement, conversion from user interest to senior stakeholder sponsorship, and consistency of pre-sales execution. What we’re looking for * Significant experience in life sciences consulting, strategy consulting, commercial strategy, value advisory, solution consulting, or a related strategic customer-facing role. * Strong understanding of how large pharma and biotech organisations evaluate enterprise solutions, including stakeholder mapping, budget approval, executive sponsorship, and business case development. * Ability to translate complex scientific workflows into clear business implications for senior leaders. * Credibility with scientific users and confidence in executive-level conversations with senior life sciences stakeholders. * Experience building structured narratives, value propositions, operating models, business cases, or transformation recommendations for sophisticated customers. * Strong coaching capability, with the ability to help others improve discovery, storytelling, problem framing, and stakeholder influence. * Comfortable operating hands-on in high-priority customer situations while also building scalable processes, standards, and team capability. * Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to pressure-test assumptions, simplify complexity, and create materials that influence decision-making. Ideal background This role may be a strong fit for someone who has worked in life sciences consulting, strategy consulting, professional services, value advisory, solution consulting, or strategic customer advisory roles. We are particularly interested in candidates who have helped senior life sciences stakeholders make decisions about complex scientific, digital, data, or AI-enabled solutions. Experience in sales or pre-sales can be valuable, but the role is not designed as a traditional sales leadership position. The strongest candidates will bring a consulting mindset: structured problem-solving, executive communication, commercial judgement, and the ability to connect scientific detail to organisational value. Reporting and structure The Life Science Strategy Director reports to the SVP of Sales and Partnerships. The role works closely with Strategic Client Partners, who own the commercial relationship, and partners across Causaly to ensure customers receive the right scientific, strategic, and technical expertise during complex evaluations. The Life Science Strategy Director directly leads the pre-sales support model across SSCs and strategic value advisory capability. The role does not manage Sales; it partners with Sales to strengthen the quality of strategic customer engagement. Why this role matters Life sciences organisations do not buy complex scientific technology on product capability alone. Users need to believe the platform improves their work, and senior stakeholders need to understand why the investment matters for the organisation. This role exists to bridge those two worlds. The Life Science Strategy Director will help Causaly turn scientific credibility into executive conviction, build a repeatable advisory model, and strengthen how we support strategic customers through complex buying decisions. Benefits UK: 💰 Competitive compensation package 🩺 Private medical insurance 🦷 Private dental insurance 📔 Life insurance (4 x salary) 🤓 Personal development budget 🧘 Individual wellbeing budget 🌴 25 days holiday plus bank holidays 🥳 Your birthday off! 🚀 Potential to have real impact and accelerated career growth as a member of an international team that's building a transformative AI product. We are on a mission to accelerate scientific breakthroughs for ALL humankind, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and fairly consider qualified candidates without regard to race, ethnic or national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, genetics, age, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, domestic / family status, veteran status or any other difference.

Faculty

WHY FACULTY? We established Faculty in 2014 because we thought that AI would be the most important technology of our time. Since then, we’ve worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI. You can read about our real-world impact here. We don’t chase hype cycles. We innovate, build and deploy responsible AI which moves the needle - and we know a thing or two about doing it well. We bring an unparalleled depth of technical, product and delivery expertise to our clients who span government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence. Our business, and reputation, is growing fast and we’re always on the lookout for individuals who share our intellectual curiosity and desire to build a positive legacy through technology. AI is an epoch-defining technology, join a company where you’ll be empowered to envision its most powerful applications, and to make them happen. ABOUT THE TEAM   Our Energy, Transition and Environment business unit is pioneering meaningful change in the clean energy revolution. Our vision is to accelerate the transition to net-zero emissions and drive efficiencies for a new era of utility companies. We believe that the responsible, and intelligent, deployment of AI is critical to the success of this mission. We partner with a wide range of clients - from major energy operators, to GreenTech startups, and national infrastructure providers - to build solutions which return measurable impact and move us towards a smarter, cleaner, and more sustainable world. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Senior Manager at Faculty within our Energy Transition & Environment team, you will drive impactful AI transformations across the energy and utilities value chain, including major infrastructure owners (energy and water), renewable energy providers and energy suppliers/traders. You will operate with high autonomy, balancing your time between overseeing high-stakes project delivery and leading strategic business development. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: * Managing the delivery of complex, large-scale AI programmes for prominent clients across the energy and utilities value chain. * Balancing your priorities across hands-on project delivery and proactive/reactive business development. * Leading competitive tender or sales processes independently under the light direction of a Director. * Advising clients on AI strategy and technical implementation, engaging confidently in wide-ranging business and technical discussions (with support from a technical team) * Navigating ambiguous settings flexibly by willingly stepping outside your core job description to support a growing team. * Supporting wider business efforts to ensure maximum strategic flexibility and commercial impact. WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR: * You bring a strong background in consulting and client management, typically gained through experience in medium to large-sized consultancies. * You possess a broad understanding of the energy value chain, with demonstrable experience working for relevant players (for example, but not limited to: utilities, suppliers, traders, policymakers/regulators), either directly or via consultancy. * You possess sufficient technical nous to engage confidently with clients and internal teams on data science/engineering concepts and AI applications. * You understand the commercial consulting delivery model, allowing you to focus on account growth and project oversight, together with delivery management. * You possess the flexibility to support broader Senior Manager work and embrace an entrepreneurial approach to a highly visible portfolio. * You thrive in ambiguous settings and demonstrate a structured approach to problem-solving and delivering high-quality, high-stakes projects. THE INTERVIEW PROCESS   1. Talent Team Screen (30 minutes) 2. Introduction to the team (60 minutes) 3. Case Study Interview (60 minutes) 4. Culture and Leadership Interview (60 minutes) OUR RECRUITMENT ETHOS We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one. We know that diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, and that strengthens our principle of seeking truth. And we know from experience that diverse teams deliver better work, relevant to the world in which we live. We’re united by a deep intellectual curiosity and desire to use our abilities for measurable positive impact. We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations. Some of our standout benefits: * Unlimited Annual Leave Policy * Private healthcare and dental * Enhanced parental leave * Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working * Sanctus Coaching * Hybrid Working If you don’t feel you meet all the requirements, but are excited by the role and know you bring some key strengths, please don't hesitate in applying as you might be right for this role, or other roles. We are open to conversations about part-time hours.