- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Department
- Data, AI, Solutions and Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
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 Data, AI, Solutions & Engineering (DAISE) practice are looking for an experienced Data & AI Delivery Lead in Life Sciences & Health to act as the interlock between DAISE and the Life Sciences & Health industry sector at Baringa.
In DAISE, we focus on delivering value-adding, sustainable data and AI capabilities aligned to our clients’ needs. This senior role will sit within DAISE and work closely with Baringa’s Life Sciences & Health industry teams, helping sectors translate market priorities into data, analytics and AI opportunities, build senior client relationships, shape pipelines across key accounts, and lead the successful delivery of DAISE engagements.
What you will be doing
- You’ll own the delivery of large-scale data and AI programmes within Life Sciences & Health, bringing together multidisciplinary DAISE teams across data strategy, analytics, AI, engineering, architecture, governance and industry SMEs to deliver work that creates meaningful, lasting outcomes for our clients
- You'll be accountable for growing and delivering DAISE’s Data and AI services within Life Sciences & Health, working with sector GTM and account teams to build pipeline, shape opportunities and deliver high-quality client engagements
- You’ll provide commercial leadership across Life Sciences & Health, owning proposals, statements of work, delivery commercials and team shaping, while working with industry teams to originate, qualify and build a strong pipeline of DAISE opportunities
- You’ll act as the day-to-day interlock between DAISE and Life Sciences & Health teams, connecting sector ambition with DAISE capability and shaping expertise in both directions. You’ll help embed data, analytics and AI thinking into sector priorities, propositions and client conversations, while bringing market insight, client needs and delivery learnings back into DAISE to strengthen our services, assets and future propositions
- You’ll build trusted relationships with senior clients across Life Sciences & Health and within Baringa, raising DAISE’s profile through sector conversations, client engagement, client events and industry conferences, and shaping data and AI opportunities that respond to market priorities and create measurable client value.
- You’ll help develop sector-specific data and AI propositions, products and reusable assets that respond to market needs and strengthen how DAISE goes to market in Life Sciences & Health
Your skills and experience
You’ll have led or supported delivery of data and AI engagements that improve patient, citizen, clinical, scientific or operational outcomes, such as population health analytics, medicines optimisation, clinical and operational data platforms, interoperability and data standards, AI assurance and clinical safety, research and real-world evidence, service capacity planning, or digital health transformation across health, care, life sciences or pharma organisations.
- You’ll bring 9+ years of consulting experience in Life Sciences & Health, with the credibility to build long-term, trusted relationships with senior clients up to and including C-suite level, and the ability to align senior clients, sector leaders, account teams and multidisciplinary delivery teams around a shared agenda
- You'll bring experience leading large teams through complex data and AI programmes, with clear ownership of delivery quality, governance, risk management, team performance and client outcomes
- You’ll be a lifelong learner, able to demonstrate a clear drive to keep developing your skills and stay current in a fast-moving AI landscape. You’ll be passionate, entrepreneurial and excited by how data can solve complex client problems
- You’ll lead from the front and role model the behaviours you expect from your team, mentoring and supporting junior colleagues as they develop their careers
- You’ll have a track record of account growth, sales support, opportunity shaping and programme delivery, with strong commercial acumen across propositions, team shaping, delivery risks, margin and client value.
- You’ll have deep expertise across data, analytics and AI strategy, including operating models, governance, data management, business adoption and value realisation. You’ll also bring a broad understanding of modern data platforms, cloud technologies and AI-enabled business transformation, and be able to explain how these capabilities create value in an industry context.
- You’ll work with clients to understand and frame their business problems, assess their current state, and identify, shape and deliver data, analytics and AI use cases from strategy through implementation. You’ll balance business value, technical feasibility and delivery complexity, making practical recommendations that help shape clients’ thinking.
Even better if:
- You may have a recognised profile in Life Sciences & Health, with experience building market presence through client networks, industry events, publications, partnerships or thought leadership
- You may also bring experience leading large-scale digital or data transformation programmes from strategy through delivery
- You may have hands-on or advisory expertise in AWS, Azure, AI, advanced analytics or related modern data technologies
- You may have contributed to products, propositions, accelerators, market strategy or thought leadership that help build a distinctive market presence
What a career at Baringa will give you
Putting People First.
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:
- Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
- Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
- Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
- Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
- Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.
An award-winning workplace
You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.
Using business as a force for good.
We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.
We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.
Join us
All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.
Baringa Privacy Notices
For UK & EU
Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at [email protected]
For the USA
Your personal data may be retained by Baringa for up to two years, as outlined in our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to support the recruitment process and internal reporting requirements. Where applicable, and in accordance with relevant federal and state laws, you may have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. For further details, please contact [email protected]
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Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to assess your application and meet applicable reporting and legal obligations. In line with the Australian Privacy Act and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or request limited deletion of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at [email protected]
