Associate Consultant

Are you looking to work for an inspiring, fast-paced, global award-winning consultancy, working with the top twenty pharma companies worldwide? At the cutting edge of the pharma industry’s R and D pipeline, working on exciting areas of new science and innovative medicines that will transform patients’ lives?

Are you working as a junior project manager, and have 2-3 years of experience working in the pharma or healthcare industry, ideally with a scientific background? Are you an analytical thinker, creative yet detailed in your approach, and passionate about improving and having a positive impact on patients’ lives?

We are recognised as a diverse supplier for many organisations, and have been winning industry awards since 2013, from the PMEA for our work with clients, and we were acknowledged in 2023 with a National Businesswomen’s Award. In 2024, we were honoured with the King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

Take a look at our video of Isabelle and Omar, two of our team members, reflecting on their first few days and weeks at Uptake.

Our Associate Consultants perform a critical role for our clients and internal project team members. You are responsible for managing small projects or playing a supporting role in managing a larger project, across a variety of different practices and client accounts.

This role also provides outstanding future career progression and potential. We offer unrivalled professional development opportunities due to the significant variety of geographies, clients, disease areas, and consulting challenges, with the opportunity to build strong, sustainable client relationships.

Your accountabilities include:

Project Management & Delivery

• Proactively build and update the project plan based on client feedback and progress, raising risks and possible solutions in a timely manner and recommending scope change control actions


• Respond to changes and problems calmly and approach challenges with a resilient ‘can-do’ attitude. Identify things to change in future projects from this experience and share them with your colleagues 


• Use our project management tools to update project plans, record client project time in our project tracker, and all personal information in our HR tool, following all Uptake’s policies and procedures


• Set up and support Zoom or Teams calls, and, if required, manage online breakouts, whiteboards, and chat functionality (including launching, saving, and supporting technical issues that occur with Zoom or Teams)


• Schedule client calls, issue agendas, and accurately capture meeting and workshop notes and key decisions as required, testing with project team members for accuracy before sharing with the client

Client Relationship Management

• Support our principal and consultant team by building rapport with our clients, enthusiastically introducing yourself to our client teams on calls and being a key person of contact for our clients via email


• Demonstrate strong cultural and business awareness and adapt your own personal style to align with clients, including language, spelling and appropriate dress code


• Positively introduce yourself to clients, ask questions, check your understanding of key deliverables, and share ideas, to ensure we deliver on time and to the right quality for clients

Preparing Content

• Create high-level PowerPoint, Excel, and Word documents that are filed in appropriate project folders using correct file naming and version control protocols


• Use our blueprint and proposal libraries to develop skeleton decks and the first draft of client deliverables for your principal or project teams

Supporting Team Members

• Coach and support Junior Analysts and Analysts to develop in their role and support their career development

What will Uptake provide for you?

• The opportunity to work with global clients, particularly in the US, and across a variety of time-zones, and with clients throughout Europe and the UK


• You will work and collaborate with client teams in the top 20 biggest pharma companies in the world


• Our cutting edge HR policies include the flexibility of core working hours, and incredible support for your wellbeing

• Enjoy a weekly team day in the office


• Take advantage of the ability to work from an alternative location for up to two weeks of the year


• Five weeks paid holiday plus public holidays, and an extra day off for your birthday


• The opportunity to take an unpaid summer sabbatical for up to four weeks in the summer


• A hugely competitive range of benefits including private medical insurance and group income protection


• A dog-friendly office that welcomes and cares for your canine associates, bring them with you on your team day in the office

Does this sound like the sort of team you want to be part of?

If it does, please click the apply button.

We are committed to employment practices that promote opportunities for all in employment regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion, or belief.

Please let us know if we can make any adjustments at any stage of the application and interview process.