Health Specialist at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Purpose of Job

Providing healthcare consulting services for a range of projects specifically in clinical and pharma sectors of donor funded and public sector industry.

Key Outputs

Strategic:

• Deep knowledge and strategic insight within the donor healthcare sector with pro-active     initiatives and industry firsts that will differentiate the practice.

• Linking solutions and skills to the complex demands of the public healthcare sector within South Africa and English speaking African countries.

• Building strategic relationships on an executive level and leveraging these for opportunities.

Technical and Operational:

Business Development:

• Business development – identifying, creating and driving sales opportunities including alliance introduction and leveraging on existing relationships.

• Developing client relationships and identifying consulting opportunities.

• Development and showcasing of Thought Leadership and industry knowledge.

• Identifying alliances, partners and industry Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to utilise on projects..

• Concluding Joint Business Relationships with strategic partners and Maintaining networks and sub-contractor relationships.

Industry Leadership:

• Internal and external presentations including thought leadership, industry updates, sales presentations and client feedback presentations.

• Ensuring marketing material is available, up-to-date, and tailored, with regard to solution offerings to the Healthcare sector.

Sales Conversions:

• Closely managing Sales Opportunities (Proposal writing and presentation) & Contracted Work pipeline and sound cooperation with practice leaders on resource

• Meeting sales, production and utilisation targets, needs, performance management and predictive planning

Engagement Management:

• Managing internal staff and leading internal team.

• Managing external teams and stakeholders across countries in Africa;

• Implementing risk management processes and procedures (independence checks, contractual agreements and engagement acceptance risk processes), etc.

• Managing consulting projects end to end i.e. budget and billing schedule to the client, hourly utilisation, staff utilisation, client expectations, project deliverables and project administration i.e. MAP files.

• Timeous invoicing and collection of debt from clients (not exceeding 60 days).

Experience

• Proven track record consulting to clients in the healthcare sector (Public and Donor agencies) over at least an 8-year period.

• Previous experience at a senior management level within a healthcare institution or as a senior advisor/consultant to the healthcare sector with monitoring and evaluation experience

• Quality Assurance experience.

• International exposure within the sector is advantageous.

• Previous experience in pharmaceutical sector and in clinical outcomes measurement and evaluation is critical.

• Large scale programme management, and public health evaluation is key.

• Proficient use of MS software packages (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Project).

Qualifications

• Healthcare qualification (MBCHB and Public Health).

Accreditation

• Healthcare institution / management qualification.

Competencies / Attributes

• Building and sustaining relationships.

• Being passionate about customer service.

• Being curious – learning, sharing and innovating.

• Leading and contributing to team success.

• Communicating with impact and empathy.

• Developing self and others through coaching.

• Acquiring and applying commercial and technical expertise.

• Managing projects and economics.

• Being open-minded, practical and agile with change.

• Strategic thinking.

• Logical reasoning and analytical ability.

• Sound judgment.

• Problem solving.

• Driven.

• Attention to detail.

• Verbal and written communication.