Who we are
Solici is the strategic competitive intelligence division of Cambridge Healthcare Research. Founded in 2013 and having grown to over 150 staff today, CHR gives healthcare decision makers the power of knowing by providing critical insights, analysis and interpretation that informs pivotal decisions that advance healthcare.
Our vision at Solici is to help the brightest ideas reach patients. We achieve this by combining research excellence with deep subject matter expertise in a range of therapy areas and a passion for enabling our clients to deliver innovative products and services to those who need them.
Our values enable us to embed considered and curious teams at the heart of any client challenge:
- Collaboration – We build strong connections to achieve more together
- Excellence – We aim for greatness in everything we do
- Community – We deliver beyond work for our people, our clients, and wider society
- Courage – We embrace challenges as opportunities for growth
- Integrity – We always do the right thing
What you will do
As a Manager, you will contribute towards the success and growth of the business by proactively leading on business development efforts to win new work and growing existing accounts, the delivery of our larger, more complex and higher value projects, leading and developing our consulting teams, and partnering our clients to ensure we deliver high quality services that enable their strategic decision-making.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Project leadership – Leading on and successfully delivering our larger, more complex and higher-value projects, ensuring they are delivered to plan and provide value for clients.
- Engagement leadership – Reassuring and satisfying clients as a trusted partner across a portfolio of projects and range of proposition and therapeutic areas by ensuring these are designed to address strategic and complex business issues and deliver quality and profitable solutions with an exceptional client experience.
- Delivering excellence – Planning, designing and expertly facilitating complex workshops, providing clear strategic recommendations to clients.
- Leading others – Independently lead, manage and develop consulting colleagues through effective communication and feedback, supporting personalised development to foster innovation and diverse thinking that adds value for our clients whilst building capabilities and behaviours that enable our people to realise their potential.
- Business development – Developing a deep understanding of existing accounts to identify catalytic events at company and product level that could generate new opportunities and proactively pursuing leads to grow the account. Proactively win new business through maintaining relationships with existing and former clients and developing new client contacts, securing requests for proposals, and leading on proposals and pitches.
- External engagement – Promoting Solici to enhance our strategic decision making and competitive positioning through writing blog articles and attending key events [e.g. conferences], developing professional networks, interacting with a variety of external stakeholders [e.g. clients, experts etc.] and articulating how Solici services and propositions can meet their needs.
- Internal engagement – Contributing and supporting internal improvement initiatives to increase the efficiency and delivery rate and profitability of projects and shape Solici and CHR for the future.