Senior Consultant (Healthcare & Life Sciences)

Application Deadline: 30 September 2026

Department: Client Delivery

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Chicago

Description

• Delivery Excellence: Senior Consultants are first and foremost consulting practitioners. Candidates must embrace and demonstrate the ability to deliver exceptional quality firsthand throughout Kenway’s engagements, while supporting and guiding teammates to do the same. 
• Accountability: Senior Consultants must demonstrate a deep sense of integrity, personal responsibility, and follow-through. Senior Consultants are the point of accountability for the quality and progress of the workstreams they own. 
• Tenacity: Under all circumstances, dynamics, and conditions, Senior Consultants are expected to think, behave, and act proactively—preemptively identifying and mitigating issues within their scope, driving progress, and escalating risks early. 
• Design Thinking: Senior Consultants are expected to demonstrate creativity, intellectual fluidity, and sound problem solving, moving between conceptual problem solving and executional rigor. Senior Consultants must be capable of designing solutions within their workstream and translating them into executable plans. 
• Professionalism: Given the complexity, visibility, and strategic importance of Kenway’s projects, we consistently interface with a diversity of leadership. Senior Consultants are expected to demonstrate poise, credibility, and clarity in all communications and interactions with clients, prospects, and internal stakeholders. 
• Aptitude: While Kenway possesses deep institutional expertise and proprietary frameworks, no two projects are the same. Senior Consultants are expected to demonstrate curiosity, climb learning curves quickly, and adapt solutions to the uniqueness of each client and project. 
• Industry Acumen: Senior Consultants within the HLS vertical are expected to demonstrate a working understanding of industry trends, regulatory landscapes, value chains, business operations, and technical nuances unique to the life sciences and healthcare sectors, while engaging in continuous learning to broaden and deepen their expertise. 
• Functional Acumen: Senior Consultants must have a sound command of programmatic skills to own workstreams, while demonstrating an understanding of Kenway’s suite of services to contribute to solutions with technical and/or non-technical scope. 
• Commitment to Kenway’s Guiding Principles: Senior Consultants must steward Kenway’s culture, model expected behaviors for analysts and consultants and demonstrate unwavering commitment to our Guiding Principles. 

Responsibilities

• Delivery Excellence 
  • Own workstreams or small projects end-to-end with minimal oversight, proactively managing timelines, escalating risks early, and ensuring client needs are addressed promptly 
  • Deliver hands-on, high-quality analytical and solution work across business and technology initiatives 
  • Apply industry, business, and technical knowledge to solve client challenges and achieve workstream objectives 
  • Demonstrate sound judgment and the courage to challenge constructively, focusing on doing what is right for the client and the engagement 
  • Be accountable for the profitability and quality standards of the scope you own, ensuring all core deliverables pass QC and Delivery Lead review 
  • Support the engagement lead by flagging risks, resource needs, and impacts to budget or timeline in a timely, transparent manner 
  • Translate ambiguous client problems into structured workplans, logic trees, and clear analytic frameworks 
• Client & Relationship Management 
  • Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders, understanding their goals and challenges 
  • Convey insights, observations, and recommendations clearly and persuasively through polished deliverables, tailoring messages to influence decisions and drive action 
  • Serve as a reliable point of contact within your workstream 
  • Support account-level growth by contributing to proposals, SOWs, and RFP responses, and capturing project outcomes to build reusable case studies for Kenway’s HLS practice 
• Kenway Impact 
  • Develop knowledge of client industries, documenting and sharing what you learn to grow Kenway’s expertise 
  • Coach and support the development of analysts and consultants through guidance, feedback, and sharing frameworks and best practices 
  • Contribute to initiatives and passion projects that drive Kenway’s growth, culture, and capabilities 
  • Lead by example in applying Kenway’s Guiding Principles 

Qualifications & Credentials

• 4+ years of experience delivering complex business or technology initiatives 
• Healthcare or life sciences strategy consulting experience is preferred, but a combination of strategy consulting and healthcare or life sciences industry experience will be considered 
• Bachelor’s degree, with advanced degrees or certifications in related health, science, or engineering fields preferred 
• Working understanding of one or more of the unique value chains across the HLS ecosystem, including, but not limited to, the following: 
• Life Sciences: R&D, Medical Affairs, Commercialization 
• Provider: Clinical workflows, Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), Patient Access/Engagement 
• Payer: Member Experience, Claims Processing, Care Management, Value-Based Care (VBC) 
• Health-Tech/Telehealth: Virtual care delivery platforms, digital front doors, and interoperability standards  
• Familiarity with industry-standard enterprise applications and platforms, such as Biopharma/Commercial (Veeva CRM/Vault, LIMS, CTMS), Healthcare/EHR (Epic, Cerner), or Enterprise Cloud (Salesforce Health Cloud, AWS/Azure Data platforms) 
• Hands-on experience with data analysis, process mapping, and business intelligence tools (e.g., SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, etc.) applied to healthcare or life sciences datasets 
• Understanding of regulatory, compliance, and data integrity frameworks (e.g., GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA) within project delivery 
• Knowledge of core consulting skills, including, but not limited, to strategic planning and road-mapping, program governance, risk management, stakeholder management, financial and resource allocation, and change management 
• Experience contributing within a project-based delivery model 
• Willingness to travel up to 50% based on client needs 

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