Operating Model Consultant - Health & Life Sciences

What you'll do

As an Operating Model Consultant, you'll work alongside multidisciplinary teams to solve complex business challenges and help HLS clients transform how their organizations operate. You'll contribute to high-profile transformations while developing expertise in health and life sciences operating design and business transformation. Our OpModel Consultants are responsible for:

• Designing future-state operating models, including organizational structures, governance, capabilities, and ways of working.
• Analyzing complex business challenges and developing practical recommendations, business cases, and transformation roadmaps.
• Facilitating stakeholder discussions and workshops, working with clients from operational teams to executive leadership.
• Assessing organizational capabilities, operating models, and ways of working to identify opportunities for improved performance and transformation.

What you’ll gain

• Exposure to complex, high-impact client challenges across the health and life sciences sector.
• Opportunities to work alongside experts in healthcare, life sciences, strategy, transformation, technology, and innovation.
• A structured development pathway focused on business and operating model design.
• The opportunity to help shape our growing team while developing expertise across pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, and broader healthcare organizations.

Qualifications

Successful candidates will come from consulting, healthcare, life sciences, transformation, business analysis, organizational design, or strategy backgrounds.

• You have at minimum 2+ years of professional experience in consulting, health and life sciences, transformation, or a related industry role. We’re open to early-career professionals and career transitioners, but this is not an entry‑level position.
• You’ve supported clinical, R&D, medical, regulatory, commercial, or enterprise transformation initiatives within pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, or healthcare organizations.
• You possess strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities with excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills. You consistently synthesize complex information into clear recommendations and insights.
• You’re known to be proactive and have a desire to solve difficult challenges with creativity and structure.

Experience in the following areas is a key indicator that you’ll be a strong match for our team:

• Pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, and patient‑centered operating models and organizational design
• Clinical development, R&D, or commercial transformation
• Governance, capability, and process design
• Enterprise and technology‑enabled transformation
• Change delivery, product ownership, or agile ways of working

Hybrid working: Our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.

Benefits

• Group medical insurance
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Teladoc and in‑formed nurse line resources
• Long‑term care plan
• Vision plan
• 401(k) Savings Plan with company profit‑sharing contribution
• Commuter and parking tax‑savings benefit
• 15 days paid vacation days with the opportunity to buy five additional days
• Company and voluntary income protection benefits
• Gym and health incentive reimbursement
• Pet and legal insurance plans
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Annual performance‑based bonus

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or any other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations: Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us at

Compensation: In compliance with Colorado’s, New York’s, Illinois’s, and Massachusetts’s Equal Pay Transparency Act, PA is required to provide a reasonable salary range for this role. This salary range is specific to Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois and is commensurate with experience, market data, applicant skills, internal equity and/or degrees/certifications. Salary Range: $115,800 - $121,900