Principal II (Life Sciences Consulting, MedTech Practice)

Kx Advisors is seeking to expand its ranks with an ambitious and motivated Principal for our MedTech Practice. Kx Advisors provides strategic support to executives at leading Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Health IT companies. Our work leverages primary research, data analysis, and knowledge/learnings from previous engagements to support critical commercial decisions for Global 500 corporations in the healthcare sector through portfolio strategy, market and opportunity assessment, commercial due diligence, go to market strategies, competitive strategy, and product commercialization.  

With a strong focus on strategy, we offer development opportunities, a high degree of senior leadership engagement, and minimal travel.

The primary role of a Principal is to handle the day-to-day management of engagements from start to finish, including team oversight and preparation of documents for client presentations. Principals balance their day-to-day responsibilities between project management, project delivery, and business development and are ultimately responsible for the quality of our work. Principals are expected to engage in practice planning discussions, including practice strategy and marketing discussion. Principals support business development and are expected to develop relationships with new and existing clients, develop proposals, and work with the support of leadership to build independent business development experience.

As a Principal, you’ll:

• Be responsible for balancing project management, project delivery, and business development responsibilities
• Serve as a strategy and thought partner to clients and senior officers of the firm
• Analyze research and client-provided information to develop conclusions and recommendations 
• Write client-ready presentations and delivering powerful, effective business presentations
• Develop and bring thought leadership to bear for business development purposes with existing and new clients 
• Work with senior officers of the firm to scope and develop proposals for new projects
• Engage in practice planning discussions, including practice strategy and marketing discussions 

Required Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of consulting experience at a top healthcare consulting firm
• Required: BA/BS from a top four-year university or college
• Preferred: MBA or Master’s Degree in a related discipline 
• Business research and analysis experience, with demonstrated ability to synthesize data and draw accurate, logical conclusions 
• Demonstrated experience successfully leading multiple workstreams and project teams
• Foreign language skills preferred, but not required
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Excellent people management skills

Salary range: $176,000-$192,000 base plus bonus eligible

The salary range provided represents what a potential hire may expect to earn in this role at Kx Advisors. Actual salary decisions will be influenced by several factors that we use to determine overall fit, including experience (both direct and indirect), education, training, demonstrated qualifications, and organizational need. Salary is only one component of the total rewards package offered at Kx Advisors. Kx Advisors offers medical, dental, and vision healthcare benefits for eligible roles.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

For more than 40 years, Kx Advisors (operating as Kaiser Associates’ Healthcare Practice) has provided strategy consulting services to help healthcare executives achieve critical business growth goals. With a highly collaborative approach they have developed pragmatic solutions for leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, health IT, digital health, and diagnostics clients, with data-driven insights to give those clients the tools to compete and win across the healthcare industry.