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Data Strategy & Partnerships Consultant

ZS
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Client: ZS
Location: London, United Kingdom
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Posted: 22.06.2025
Expiry Date: 06.08.2025
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Job Description: ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on transforming global healthcare and beyond, our most valuable asset is our people. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide. ZSers drive impact by bringing a client first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business including portfolio strategy, customer insights, research and development, operational and technology transformation, marketing strategy and many more. Bring your curiosity for learning; bold ideas; courage and passion to drive life changing, impact to ZS.

Our most valuable asset is our people.
At ZS we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences and belief systems—the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are and
make us unique. We believe your personal interests, identities, and desire to learn are part of your success here. Learn more about our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces, obtaining the resources they need to thrive, and sharing the messages they are passionate about.
ZS’s Data Strategy and Partnerships has 2 pillars: First, advising clients on all matters related to Data Strategy. With the explosion of healthcare data and new applications, Data Strategy has emerged as key strategic initiative for many Life Science companies. The team advises clients on operating model, governance data sourcing and generation, data management, value creation, technology enablement and compliance. In close collaboration with the Digital and Technology practice, we help diagnose and roadmap the data strategy journey, design, build and operate strategic capabilities. The second pillar is building relationships and partnerships with a wide range of data providers to enable ZS access and use of the data in innovative offerings and services.
The Data Strategy Consultant will be located in one of our European offices and will help deliver world-class solutions that address the development of data strategies to optimize data governance and operation, data sourcing strategy, process design, value creation and portfolio analytics, and more. This individual will have high visibility within the firm and work collaboratively with the rest of the Data Strategy team located in North America, Europe and India as well as various practice areas (e.g. Research and Development Excellence, RWE, RWD & I etc.)
Responsibilities:
Build and maintain a comprehensive level understanding and expertise on healthcare data in Europe as well as US and Asia
Collaborate with ZS’ internal and client-facing teams to define approaches to address our clients’ needs;
Assist in defining capabilities, building frameworks, processes, and tools to support data strategy;
Partner with project leads in delivering projects and assist in project management responsibility such as project plans, people management, staffing and risk mitigation;
Collaborate with other team members across the globe and ensure seamless communication and sharing/ undertaking tasks;
Manage direct / indirect client communications as per the assigned responsibility in the project;
Manage and collaborate with an extended team of diverse skill sets (knowledge management, technologists, business operations, etc.);
Mentor/coach junior members in the team, as needed;
Help build long term Data Strategy assets and offerings in collaboration with Digital and Technology teams.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's or master's degree required, with strong academic performance in analytic and quantitative coursework
2-4 years of relevant job experience; prior experience working with consultancy firms or healthcare data provider preferred
Knowledge of healthcare data and experience of its practical applications (e.g. patient-level EMR, claims, omics, data and experience with RWD/RWE projects or omics data) would be a bonus
Ability to translate unstructured problems into actionable processes and approaches
Can think strategically, support definition and management of data standards and protocols;
Self-starter, with high motivation, maturity and personal initiative
Strong oral and written communication skills
Empathy, adaptability, and high personal impact
Self-discipline for planning and organizing tasks, and delivering in an unstructured environment
Ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities;
Perks & Benefits:
ZS offers a comprehensive total rewards package including health and well-being, financial planning, annual leave, personal growth and professional development. Our robust skills development programs, multiple career progression options and internal mobility paths and collaborative culture empowers you to thrive as an individual and global team member.

We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working. A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and on-site presence at clients/ZS offices for the majority of our week. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.

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